Wednesday, July 11, 2007
I remember when I fell out of a tree as a kid. The pediatrician made a house call. Why fear a physician coming to you? Perhaps when he's an Islamist... Andrew Bostom explains: Face facts: Radical docs like al-Zawahiri are fixtures in many terrorist organizations
As we continue to learn the terrifying details of the foiled U.K. bombing plots - and the six doctors allegedly involved in them - some suggest that the notion of Muslim physician-terrorists is a total anomaly, a perversion of not only the medical creed but of the ethic of Islam.
On the first count, they are correct. On the second, the truth is more complicated. Doctors who justify the murder of innocents are disturbingly common in radical Islam. And there's a case to be made that the Koran itself encourages their crimes...
