Islamist Fanatics

According to this story, Islamist fanatics (the mujaheddin, a generic term meaning thugs) have once again proven their highly trained suicide commandos are able to vanquish tourists, grandmothers, shoppers, business people and other various civilians in peaceful settings-- including, if the reports are accurate, a hospital. Great glory on them. For this they use weapons they buy from elsewhere (since no country where they live is able to create the infrastructure to actually manufacture something), using money they cheat (or extort) from their neighbors, steal from their mothers, and their children, or receive as handouts from distant allies who hope they kill each other off before they can spread the poison of their beliefs any closer.

Every time some muslim cause takes a step toward being sympathetically heard, some dim witted testosterone fuelled band of death worshippers decides to attack a shopping center, a school, or an airport. This is not the expression of a glorious cause-- it's people with spectacularly bad judgement and too much ordinance. They have besmirched the image of Islam in the eyes of the rest of the world. And unfortunately, they have contributed to the world's perception of a generation of young Muslims who are so cynical and alienated that when they're not finding Christian or Jewish civilians to attack, they attack their own. Will someone not tell them they are setting back their agenda rather than furthering it? Are there no voices in the Mulsim world to say, "no, suicide attacks are not glorious, they are a cowardly way to attack the helpless and achieve less than nothing"? Perhaps they should start listening to their women for a change. Or allow their wise people to speak, instead of gagging them with threats of violence. This is not extremism, it's a specific form of insanity.

Praise Allah for the band of small, hopeless, and stupid men who banded together, armed themselves, and planned the complex logistics for attacking a freaking tourist hotel and a shopping center and a hospital. It's ugly and tragic. And I wish only the worst to happen to any of them, and their families and communities-- their teachers, and ministers, and advisors-- for five generations to come.