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I am amazed at Muslims around the world. I just finished reading the Reuter's article Tensions in Muslim World Mount Over U.S.-Led Strikes. Here are some interesting quotes from the article:
  • Police in Pakistan battled thousands of frenzied anti-U.S. demonstrators as calls for a holy war against the United States echoed throughout the Muslim world following the U.S.-led strikes on Afghanistan.
  • In Egypt, more than 20,000 students demonstrated against the strikes launched Sunday in reprisal for the suicide hijackings that killed thousands of people in New York and Washington.
  • In India, which has one of the world's biggest Muslim populations, the head of India's biggest mosque said he would call on the country's 120 million Muslims to provide moral support for a jihad, or holy war, against the United States.
  • In Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population, a small but strident radical Islamic group threatened to hunt down foreigners and destroy foreign targets as embassies there warned their nationals to stay indoors.
I'm really at a loss for how to respond to this. I know that every group will have their share of nutcases. It just seems like Islam did really well in the nutcase draft this year.
posted on Monday, October 08, 2001 8:19 PM Print
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