OH ALLAH, PLEASE DO NOT LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD!

According to Robert Fisk, that doyen of the political left, suicide bombers are"misunderstood".

In his article today, he tries to get us to feel sorry for the noble self-exploders, designating their will to murder at random as just part of the "ghoulish legacy" of .... US President George Bush.


"Suicide bombers in Iraq have killed at least 13,000 men, women and children – our most conservative estimate gives a total figure of 13,132 – and wounded a minimum of 16,112 people. If we include the dead and wounded in the mass stampede at the Baghdad Tigris river bridge in the summer of 2005 – caused by fear of suicide bombers – the figures rise to 14,132 and 16,612 respectively. Again, it must be emphasised that these statistics are minimums."

Fisk sagely concludes..


"One of George Bush's most insidious legacies in Iraq thus remains its most mysterious; the marriage of nationalism and spiritual ferocity, the birth of an unprecedentedly huge army of Muslims inspired by the idea of death."

Sorry, but this is all so much bull. It is ISLAM which both inspires and praises the self detonators. It is Al Queda which propagated grotesque suicide bombing on 9/11, long before any invasion of Iraq. It is the ordinary citizens of Iraq, Muslims, which suffer most grievously at the hands of these exploding scum. It is journalists like Fisk, driven by Bush derangement syndrome, that push this kind of apologia for the homicide killers. An individual who straps on an explosive belt and then walks into a crowded marketplace to kill as many people as possible - men, women and children, is a MONSTER. It is not George Bush or US foreign policy that makes them do this - it is their own perverted faith and their own communal moral depravity that carries the blame. Fisk can normally be relied upon to get it wrong and once more he does not disappoint.

Cross-posted on A Tangled Web