Holy mother of God. Al Qaida tortures kid for two years

I'm speechless.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/07/iraq.kidnapped.boy/index.html

 

the religion of peace at work

 

That's the type of quality post that only you can provide.

 

As the father of a 6-year-old, I would be dead, because they would have to gun me down after I went on the shooting rampage.

 

I still do, but stuff like this makes it hard for me to believe in God.

 

Sick. I can't even begin to imagine what that kid went through. Thank God he's alive.

 

All the Dems are right; we shouldn't torture the people we find who do shit like this.

 

Watch it. Someone will bring up an abortion-clinic bomber and say it trumps you.

 

Well, if we thank God for him still being alive, do we fault God for putting him in harm's way in the first place?

 

"They did it first" stops being a justification for doing something wrong at about the age of four.

 

Treat these people like the rabid dogs they are.

 

If I had to guess -- and I didn't see this specified in the story -- I would guess that the policeman and his family are all Shi'a Muslims. Al Qaeda, of course, stems from the fundamentalist wah'habi sect of Sunni Islam. Without getting into all the gory details, I'd appreciate it if y'all would picture in your mind the Protestant Reformation ... and consider that the the Shi'a-Sunni schism was about a million times more unpleasant.

The "Al Qaeda in Iraq" group's leadership has in the past declared "all-out war" on the Shia majority in Iraq; the late, unlamented Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, one of the earliest leaders of the group, focused more on attacking Shi'a Muslims than on attacking American soldiers (even after being admonished by senior AQ officials to concentrate on fighting Americans in a letter remarkably reminiscent of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters).

So, short version, this kind of lunatic sectarian violence (presuming that's what it is) has been part of the "Al Qaeda in Iraq" arsenal since it got started and stayed in that arsenal even after Zarqawi caught a couple of USAF bombs with his face.