01/30/07:

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "… instead of capitalizing on the people's genuine support and willingness to give in and give up everything, they had become power lusty, belligerent and fatwa-crazy. Instead of building bridges with the community, improving services, opening hospitals, winning the trust of international organizations and NGOs to help them with projects to generate employment, they burned all bridges. They alienated the youth by banning all types of entertainment, segregated women and deprived tens of thousands of families from their only livelihood by banning khat without bringing an alternative source of income. They even embittered traditional Islamic scholars with their characteristic Wahhabi style of self-righteousness and condescending attitude to mainstream Islam.

"Not only did they become more warlords than the ones they had defeated, but they emblazoned their belligerency with Islam and brandished the sword of Jihad, thus projecting themselves in the model of Taliban and regurgitating the tired jihadist rhetoric of Al Qaeda."
— Somali journalist Bashir Goth, commenting on the reign of the Islamic Courts Union in that country (and be sure to read Cinnamon Stillwell's excellent editorial, from which I drew this quote)

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[Peg]

The dhimmi's want to leave Iraq and go to Africa! Show's ya they do not know what this is about. Plus, they have had plenty of years themselfs to learn and to do something, Clinton!