Wednesday, October 7, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Andy McCarthy: If You Don't Get Islamic Ideology, You Don't Get the Problem in Afghanistan - '...There was bitter condemnation of al Qaeda in the Islamic world in 1998 after the U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Yet, after 9/11, there was dancing in the streets. The explanation is simple: Over 90 percent of those killed in the embassy bombings were Muslims; by contrast, almost all of the nearly 3,000 killed on 9/11 were Americans, and the devastated city was New York, not Nairobi. Muslims have lots of complaints about Muslim terrorists, but the thought that this means they'll be coming over to our side is a fantasy.'
