How to Recognize a Combatant
I've got another letter published in the Charlotte Observer, this one on events in Iraq.
You can view it online for 7 days from today at www.charlottte.com, then click on
Opinion/letters, then Observer Forum/Letters to the Editor. They may require you to
register.
Here I will reproduce the text of the letter to which I am responding, followed by my letter
as published, then my original letter unpublished.
(The first letter, published Dec. 2, 2004)
Iraq's spiral of chaos grows with barbaric acts
The writer is chairman, Islamic Political Party of America.
As a Muslim, I condemn the cold-blooded murders of aid worker Margaret Hassan and of the
injured, unarmed Iraqi inside a Fallujah masjid. Both victims met their deaths by actions
that could be described as barbaric and cowardly.
When sovereign nations are attacked with no regard for international law or innocent
civilians, when prisoners are abused, and when a Marine commits murder inside of a house of
worship, we are left in a spiral of chaos.
Jibril Hough
Charlotte
(MY response published Dec. 6, 2004)
Marine had cause to be suspicious
In response to "Iraq's spiral of chaos grows with barbaric acts" (Dec. 2 Forum):Jibril Hough
hooks us with the murder of aid worker Margaret Hassan, but lest we think he is truly
concerned about the beheadings and murder of noncombatants, finishes with a Marine who
"commits murder inside a house of worship." What exactly are they worshipping in there, the
Kalashnikov and the hand grenade? It can't be Islam, because that's a religion of peace,
right?
Mary J. Jordan Vaccarella
Hickory
(My original letter, unedited)
Thank you for continuing to print the propaganda of Jibril Hough and Islamic Political Party
of America. You do the public a service by reminding us what the Muslim-American community
really thinks. Mr. Hough hooks us with murder of aid worker Margaret Hassan, but lest we
think he is truly concerned about the beheadings and murder of non-combatants, finishes with
a Marine who “commits murder inside a house of worship”. What exactly are they worshipping
in there, the Kalashnikov and the hand grenade? It can’t be Islam, because that’s a
religion of peace, right?
You can view it online for 7 days from today at www.charlottte.com, then click on
Opinion/letters, then Observer Forum/Letters to the Editor. They may require you to
register.
Here I will reproduce the text of the letter to which I am responding, followed by my letter
as published, then my original letter unpublished.
(The first letter, published Dec. 2, 2004)
Iraq's spiral of chaos grows with barbaric acts
The writer is chairman, Islamic Political Party of America.
As a Muslim, I condemn the cold-blooded murders of aid worker Margaret Hassan and of the
injured, unarmed Iraqi inside a Fallujah masjid. Both victims met their deaths by actions
that could be described as barbaric and cowardly.
When sovereign nations are attacked with no regard for international law or innocent
civilians, when prisoners are abused, and when a Marine commits murder inside of a house of
worship, we are left in a spiral of chaos.
Jibril Hough
Charlotte
(MY response published Dec. 6, 2004)
Marine had cause to be suspicious
In response to "Iraq's spiral of chaos grows with barbaric acts" (Dec. 2 Forum):Jibril Hough
hooks us with the murder of aid worker Margaret Hassan, but lest we think he is truly
concerned about the beheadings and murder of noncombatants, finishes with a Marine who
"commits murder inside a house of worship." What exactly are they worshipping in there, the
Kalashnikov and the hand grenade? It can't be Islam, because that's a religion of peace,
right?
Mary J. Jordan Vaccarella
Hickory
(My original letter, unedited)
Thank you for continuing to print the propaganda of Jibril Hough and Islamic Political Party
of America. You do the public a service by reminding us what the Muslim-American community
really thinks. Mr. Hough hooks us with murder of aid worker Margaret Hassan, but lest we
think he is truly concerned about the beheadings and murder of non-combatants, finishes with
a Marine who “commits murder inside a house of worship”. What exactly are they worshipping
in there, the Kalashnikov and the hand grenade? It can’t be Islam, because that’s a
religion of peace, right?
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