07 May 2004

God is not partisan

At the bottom of this article is this:
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The comments offended many Muslims, including Helal Omeira, the Northern California director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Omeira also has been shocked by the abusive photos coming out of Iraq in the past week, but has urged his fellow Muslims not to overreact.
"Blaming Americans for the actions of a few soldiers,'' he said, "is the same as blaming all Muslims for 9/11.''>>

Quite so; I heard a middle eastern human rights activist this morning on breakfast news saying that the kinds of things that are provoking understandable and justifiable outrage in the Mulsim world about the US/UK occupation of Iraq have been and continue to happen daily in middle eastern countries inflicted by security forces on their own people ... a good balancing point. One that won't really be heard for a good while I fear.

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