Let's see, a week later we have Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE on record as condemning it.
A week later we have the Muslim Council of Britain, the Sacramento Valley Council on American Islamic Relations (not a Muslim religious leader, just a group) and a few other similar "religious leader" comments.
Of course, in the area where the fighting and killing is actually taking place, the place where we need a little leadership and guidance for the masses, there's been what from the leading Ayatollahs and Mullah? Can anyone give me links to condemnations of this act by the religious leaders in Iraq, Iran, Syria or Saudia Arabia?
Governmentally, does anyone have links to condemnations of this act by Syria or Iran? You know, the two countries implicated as routes for arms and infiltrating fighters into Iraq?
No, I didn't think you could.
I have yet to see a condemnation of this murder by Kuwait. Did I miss that one?
Now you can say that those standards are just too high. Fine; you and I both know you're BS'ing yourself. The condemnation of this act has come from either "friendly" Islamic governments or from religious leaders that tend flocks far away and highly unlikely to be involved in the fighting.
Pretty significant to me.
And then of course, there is a lot of this sentiment floating around. Probably FAR more of this attitude than condemnation.
But a columnist for the Cairo newspaper Al-Arabi, Mr Nour Al-Huda Zaki, summed up the 'eye for an eye' sentiment among some in the Arab world.
'What happened to Berg, I believe, will make the American people wake up and realise that it is an end result of the raping of the Iraqis in the prison.
'In normal circumstances, I could condemn the slaughtering of the American, but we are living in abnormal circumstances.
'I cannot condemn it now,' he wrote.
And, obviously, this attitude pervades the religious and governmental leadership near the actual fighting.
But go ahead and ignore that.
