Rift growing betwen al Qaeda and allies
Bob Morris @ Apr 25th 2008 00:10 - Category: Unfiled
Al Qaeda increasingly faces sharp criticism from once-loyal sympathizers who openly question its ideology and tactics, including attacks that kill innocent Muslims.
Zawahiri attempted to answer such criticim on a video
“The deaths of any innocents were the result of “intentional error or out of necessity. . . . The enemy intentionally takes up positions in the midst of the Muslims for them to be human shields for him.”
This argument of course is garbage. The deliberate killing of civilians is ethically loathsome and is considered terrorism by any definition. Hamas, Israel, all sides in Sri Lanka, and the US military in Iraq sometimes try to justify the slaughter of non-combatants by saying the opposition is hiding among them - as if that somehow justifies killing innocents.
No Comments »
Leave a Reply
Comments subject to deletion at whim of capricious webmaster. Disagreements are ok. Flames, trolls, and right-wing attacks are not. If your comment doesn't appear immediately, then moderation is on, thus there's no need to re-send it.
(However sometimes the anti-spam programs here go awry. Email us if your comments seem to vanish into the void.)
