“When the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke, there was not a single Arab who did not express the opinion that it was a despicable, mean [act] contrary to humanist values. They are right about this. But these people swiftly forgot their humanism and sealed their lips when the Jordanian terrorist Abu Mus’ab Al-Zarqawi declared war against the Shi’ites in Iraq, and began to dispatch his booby-trapped soldiers to blow themselves up among children, women, and the elderly. None of those [who denounced the Abu Ghraib scandal] uttered a word and none shed a tear for the hundreds and thousands of Iraqis being murdered and whose bodies are being mutilated.
“The first to denounce [the Abu Ghraib scandal] were the Americans themselves, who thought that the acts of some of their soldiers distorted the image of the U.S. and served as a mark of shame…
“But don’t the Arabs feel an even greater sense of shame when some of them kill and massacre Iraqi citizens? Don’t the rest [of the people] feel pangs of conscience when they try to come up with excuses and justifications for the murderers and criminals whom they call the ‘resistance?’ How can someone outraged at the torture of or disrespect for another person be silent and ignore [Al-Zarqawi’s] declaration of the [program of] extermination of millions of people because of their sectarian affiliation?
… “The war being waged by the Al-Qaeda organization and the terrorists against the Shi’ites in Iraq is among the acts of collective extermination, which is rare in modern history. There has been no case in the past in which somebody has declared a similar war against a race or a group as a whole, except [for the case of] Nazi Germany against the Jews.”
The above was written by Omran Salman, a Bahraini journalist – one who is willing to call a terrorist a terrorist, rather than an “armed man” or “gunman” or a “fighter” or an “insurgent” or some other weasel word. From our friends at Memri and there’s more here.
Also, I recently wrote this column on the MSM’s moral vacuity hiding behind a pose of high-minded neutrality.