911

So I’m reading Jeff Jacoby’s op-ed in the Boston Globe today and he’s talking about anti-American sentiment in the Arab world, (I’m ignoring the fact for a second that the idea of an Arab world, like Arab street, is Orientalist, and that using Egypt as an example for over two dozen countries is just bad writing.) when I run across this paragraph: It was Al-Akhbar, another regime-sponsored daily, that declared in August: “The Statue of Liberty . . . must be destroyed because of the idiotic American policy that goes from disgrace to disgrace in the swamp of bias and…

OMFG! What the hell is wrong with people? Bombing trains? While we don’t know who has done this (the fact only first class cars were targeted leaves open the possibility of some sort of pseudo-Naxalite movement), I must say even I am inclined to believe that this is the work of some members of the Cult of Bin Laden – who, like the members of the Seas of David, have heard enough about the Qur’an to consider themselves Muslim. This is a horrible tragedy, and I pray for the deceased, and that the perpetrators truly understand God’s Justice. Technorati Tags:…