A couple of dozen demonstrators attending a rally on the Mall once billed as the Million Muslim March were vastly outnumbered Wednesday by onlookers who heckled them and a counterprotest consisting of motorcycle riders honoring Sept. 11 victims.Despite the sparse turnout for what became known as the Million American March Against Fear, organizers promised another rally next year — the same pledge leaders of the 2 Million Bikers to DC ride gave the thousands of motorcyclists who roared into the District from across the country.Several times on the radio last week I heard, during news segments, a spokesman for this group claim there were 2 million Muslim victims, mostly as a result of 9/11. In attempting to cut through the intellectual incoherence of the statement, I assumed he meant 2 million Muslims have been killed, mainly in the U.S. military efforts formerly known as the Global War on Terror (a terrible name) but now referred to by the Obama administration as "overseas contingency actions" aimed at halting "man-caused disasters." Makes GWOT look brilliant. In any event, you can't get that number no matter how hard you try, and even if you could, the vast majority of Muslim civilian victims in Afghanistan and Iraq were killed by other Muslims.
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Showing posts with label victims. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
And never forget who the victims were
Hint: It wasn't Muslims. And if it was -- or even to the extent the victims included Muslims writ large -- Muslims were victimized by other Muslims. The radical Islamists who launched the 9/11 attack were acting in the name of their faith. If that tarred a lot of "good" Muslims with the same brush, then maybe they should get off their asses and condemn the shitheads who carried out the attacks. I'm thinking that claiming to be the victims of 9/11 isn't going to fly well:
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