Monday, May 16, 2005
Your daily dose of Islamic extremism, II
Then there's this doosy of a story, describing the arrest, imprisonment, and repeated torture of a British expat living in Saudi Arabia in 2000. It seems he and a couple other Westerners were blamed for planting a car bomb that killed another Briton, when the bombing was quite obviously the work of al-Qaeda extremists (using "al-Qaeda" and "extremists" back-to-back is somewhat redundant, don't you think?). Some lowlights:
Anyway, read the whole thing. Interesting, if sickening, stuff.
After three days of torture, Ibrahim and Khalid summoned a doctor to examine Mr Mitchell. The doctor took his blood pressure. It was dangerously high. "Try to relax more," the doctor suggested helpfully to Mr Mitchell. When Mr Mitchell protested that he was being tortured, the doctor calmly replied: "They all say that. You'll just have to cope the best you can." And the moment the doctor left, the torture began again.It's so simple. Just try to relax during the beatings, otherwise that blood pressure might cause you problems!
They kept coming to beat me. They would do it for no reason at all. 'What do you want me to say?' I would ask them. 'What questions do want me to answer?' They would reply, 'There are no questions! We just want to beat you.' They enjoyed it. These men were savages."Therein, my friends, lies the most profoundly true statement of the whole article. I'd go into a deeper discussion of how all-encompassing I think "these men" should be, but I'll spare you the rant.
Anyway, read the whole thing. Interesting, if sickening, stuff.
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Personally, I think you'll find "these men" all over the globe. "These men"...these savages who beat a man just for kicks are the same demons as the teenager who blows up a cat for the hell of it, or the middle-aged man who kidnaps, sexually assaults, and murders a little girl. There are no differences between these people: they're all Hitler or Pol Pot, only without the power or influence. "These men" exist in every country across the world, and they are sick.
And I hope that was the implication in your rant, because to say otherwise (or to say what I suspect you were going to say) would be erroneous and wrong: to implicate a whole people because of race, religion, or geography is just plain ignorant. Hopefully that wasn't going to be the hypothesis of your rant, because I have been around plenty of people who've made that claim and it offends me deeply.
Also, Ibrahim clearly had a severe Napoleonic Complex, that jumped out at me right away..."He's 5' 5" and he's a torturer?" Hmmm.
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And I hope that was the implication in your rant, because to say otherwise (or to say what I suspect you were going to say) would be erroneous and wrong: to implicate a whole people because of race, religion, or geography is just plain ignorant. Hopefully that wasn't going to be the hypothesis of your rant, because I have been around plenty of people who've made that claim and it offends me deeply.
Also, Ibrahim clearly had a severe Napoleonic Complex, that jumped out at me right away..."He's 5' 5" and he's a torturer?" Hmmm.
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