9 April 2004

Barbarians III

The savages responsible for this are far beyond the pale of civilisation. This description from AP News of the "brave warriors of Islam" needs no elaboration.

"Armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, the kidnappers shouted "Allahu akbar" - God is great - in the video and held knives to the throats of the Japanese, who screamed and whimpered in terror.

Associated Press Television News obtained a copy of the full video, in which four masked men point knives and swords at the blindfolded captives as they lie on the floor of a room with concrete walls.

At one point, a gunman holds a knife to the throat of one of the men, whose blindfold has been removed; his eyes widen in panic and he struggles to try to get free. The woman screams and weeps."

Let's see how brave you are when a Marine puts an RPG up your ass.

A society that encourages and celebrates this kind of barbarism deserves no better than to be on the receiving end of a war without mercy. Does this "culture" also have a place in a multi-cultural society?

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