Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Posted by:
Michael Medved
at
3:46 AM
While US media give lavish coverage to terrorist horrors in Iraq and Afghanistan, they tend to ignore the simultaneous carnage by jihadists that claims even more victims around the world. On July 10th , for instance, a teenaged suicide bomber killed ten and grievously wounded 35 in Algeria, and the day before Islamists killed fourteen members of a search party in the Philipines looking for a kidnapped priest—beheading at least ten of their slaughtered victims. The following weekend, at least seventy perished in suicide bombings in Pakistan. Most Americans don’t know that conservative estimates show at least 200,000 victims of Muslim vs. Muslim violence in Algeria in the last fourteen years. In the second week in July – just a typical seven day period—terror monitors recorded 74 Islamist attacks, claiming 623 dead bodies and 697 critical injuries – and the big majority of these attacks occurred outside Iraq or Afghanistan. It’s hopelessly nave to suggest that US withdrawal from Iraq, or new Israeli concessions to Palestinians, would put an end to the brutality in Pakistan, Algeria, the Phillipines, or Thailand – the recent scene of literally scores of vicious killings. Worldwide Islamo-Nazi violence began long before the US assault on Saddam Hussein, and will continue to afflict the world regardless of American policy