From terror to horror, MG asked to Iraqi bloggers at IBC: If you could spend five minutes alone with Saddam in his cell, what would you do?

* I am an artist looking for a good photography of the "next" Zarqawi. Thx.

From Washington Post Foreign Service: Insurgents said Wednesday in interviews and statements on the Internet that the leader of the...

AND YOUR EXPERTISE SITTING ON YOUR FAT ASS BEHIND THE KEYBOARD? TWIT!

We don’t live in a utopian world. We live in a very dangerous one, made more dangerous by the Islamist terrorists (predominantly Arab, but Persian, Chechen, Asian and others) and made even more dangerous by those who either do not recognize the situation as such or go the route of appeasement.

But here’s what the president says "The war on terror is not a figure of speech. It is an inescapable calling of our generation. The terrorists are offended not merely by our policies - they are offended by our existence as free nations. No concession will appease their hatred. No accommodation will satisfy their endless demands. Their ultimate ambitions are to control the peoples of the Middle East, and to blackmail the rest of the world with weapons of mass terror. There can be no separate peace with the terrorist enemy. Any sign of weakness or retreat simply validates terrorist violence, and invites more violence for all nations. The only certain way to protect our people is by early, united, and decisive action."

I offer the following list of numerical data if you want to look at the issue from a religious perspective.

Number of times Jerusalem is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible: over 700

Number of times Jerusalem is mentioned in the Koran: 0

Number of terrorist attacks by Jews since 1967: 1

Number of terrorist attacks by Muslims since 1967: thousands

Percentage of Palestinians who have praised Islamic terrorists: approximately 90

Number of Muslims in the world: more than 1 billion

Number of Muslim demonstrations against Islamic terror: approximately 3

The President has said about Islam: ...Islam inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity and morality (12/5/02). A...It's [Islam] a faith based on love, not hate. (9/10/02) "The Islam that we know...teaches the value and the importance of charity, mercy and peace. (11/15/01).

Well, he is the President has to say these sorts of politically-correct things in the belief that they are necessary to be said, because to declare the truth would create a threat to the maintenance of order or, in the case of the Newsweek Koran piece, it might provoke an outraged citizenry to retaliate in a vengeful and illegal way, jeopardizing human life.

I have no such impediment and trust that the truth can only serve to enlighten and not to incite.

Islam exists today as it is written in the Koran and lived by Muhammad. Muhammad, as you may know, was not quite the role model that today's society might want to emulate. He had affairs with maids and slave girls and was a pedophile (the girl's name was Aisha, she was 9 he was 53. He was also involved in the slave trade, assassinations and genocide. But, what the hell, nobody is perfect.)

But don't just take my word for it, let's go straight to the source, which, in this case is the Koran.

Kill the disbelievers wherever we find them. (2:191)
Fight and slay the pagans (translation: that's us) seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem. (9:5)
Slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers...(5:34)
...strike off the heads of the disbelievers...[make a] wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives [for ransom] (947:4)
[treatment of disbelievers]...garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods (22:19).
The Koran also instructs Muslims to slay or crucify or cut the hands and the feet of the unbelievers (5:34), fight unbelievers until no other religion except Islam remains. (3:85)

Given these basic teachings of Islam there is little reason to be surprised at the beheading of Americans Nick Berg and Paul Johnson, or any of the countless terrorist attacks perpetuated in the name of Islam.

I think the description was more than accurate.

An al-Qa'ida website posted today that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been wounded and asked for Muslims to pray for his recovery. Just about a week ago, however, there was a report by an Iraqi doctor that Zarqawi came into Ramadi

The group formerly known as Tawhid and Jihad and which has known ties to Osama bin Laden appears to be in complete meltdown mode. An Islamst message board frequently used by Abu Musab al Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq claims...

Islam is a gay, western hating, backwards religion.

raptured occured and you were left behind

Criticism is due, however misdirected. Do we blame the media, or those who align their violent deeds with a religion? Followers of Islam should be fallling all over themselves to condemn his actions.

I suppose this line of thinking leads one to the conclusion that Zarqawi has been "blamed". I'd say he's pretty open about his deeds and is proud of them.

Very likely he is in a neighboring country, although this could be a lame ploy to make the Coalition forces stop looking for him in Iraq. Wouldn't it be ironic if he were to die from a lack of care, due to his attacks on peaceful, civilian establishments?