As of this morning, the toll is up to 83 killed
in three different bomb blasts in Sharm al-Sheikh - one of Egypt's popular
tourist areas.
According to the BBC , most of the dead in the Old Market area
were Egyptians - Sunnis, most likely. Just like Osama's bunch. His 'lil pal Abu
Musb al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born psychopath running riot in Iraq has claimed
that Shia are fair game - not true Muslims, you see. OK to kill. But when you
kill Muslims in Egypt, it's odds-on that you're killing Sunnis, which is
supposed to be proscribed. Which either way, only goes to demonstrate that
Islamist terror continues to kill more Muslims than anyone else the terrorists
get so wroth at.
Condi Rice is in the
region, and speaking from Israel denounced:
"the horrific terrorist
bombings". She vowed that Egypt and the US "will confront and defeat this
scourge that knows no boundary and respects no
creed".
Egyptian President-for-life
Hosni Mubarak also made noises of condemnation suitable for mass market
publication.
That such a coordinated
attack could happen inside a country as tightly policed as Egypt, experienced by
decades of internal conflict with violent Islamist groups like the Muslim
Brotherhood, is a sobering thought, especially as the U.S. Congress tinkers
around the margins of the Patriot Act.
Appalling though the loss of life
has been, in London and in Egypt, I'm afraid that these sorts of things are
going to become the deus ex
machina of our continuing international
theater - given the fact that there's no one to negotiate with, and nothing to
negotiate in terms of conditions. Smugly self-absorbed documentarians notwithstanding,
it is a war after all, and the enemy does get a vote. It sucks, it's true, but
about the best we can hope for is to stop the next "big one" and sweep up the
smaller messes as stoically and quickly as we can, while hunting the authors of
these atrocious crimes down root and
branch.
And winning the Information
Operations campaign, which means finishing the job of democratization in Iraq,
to demonstrate to the Arab middle east that there is a viable third way between
the fascist, pan-Arab tyrannies on the one hand and Taliban-like Sharia states
on the other. It also probably means that Important People over here should
avoid shooting us all in the foot when they shoot off their mouths.
But part of that IO campaign also
means showing our disapproval of those who apologize for terror. Guardian
internist Dilpazier Aslam, who compared the 7/7 tube bombings to a "rocking of
the boat," declined the opportunity to resign his membership in an Hizb
ut-Tahrir, an organization which endorses anti-semitic violence, so he's been
shown the door by management. Good for them.
Which leaves at least one person
still to be dealt with, at least that I know of. One purveyor of hatred and
vitriol, a man who celebrated the 3000 deaths of 9/11, a man living off nothing
more than a poverty of soul and the government dole over in merry olde England:
Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed - why are you still here?
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"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." - John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friederich Nietzsche
