From the ever awesome Tarek Fatah.It seems there is no respite for the ordinary Muslim.
Barely a day goes by when news of fresh atrocities by our co-religionists isn’t in the headlines.
Most of the world’s billion-plus Muslims wouldn’t dream of killing in the name of Islam, but enough do to form a critical mass that has put us on a collision course with the rest of humanity.
The Sydney siege by an ISIS-inspired jihadist had barely ended when the horrific news of a Taliban massacre killing 140 children at a Pakistani school shocked the world.
It took place at an “Army Public School”, inside a Pakistan cantonment on the edges of Peshawar.
Many of the students who attended this elite school were the sons and daughters of Pakistan army officers.
Ironically, the Taliban barbarians who killed these children were a creation of the Pakistan military, aimed at controlling neighbouring Afghanistan as a satellite state.
Why did the Taliban strike at a military school?
Could it be retaliation for the recent Pakistan army campaign to expel the Taliban out of Pakistan and into Afghanistan?
That may be one reason.
But knowing the workings of the worldwide jihadist terror movement and the Islamists who sow its seeds in Islamic countries and the West, there is another:
That is, the Islamist’s rejection of Western-style education systems.
The school attacked had boys and girls attending classes in what is referred to as a co-educational “English-medium” school.
The boys, smartly dressed in green blazers, white shorts and green neckties, reflect everything the Islamists despise.
Read more:
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/12/16/muslims-must-save-islam-from-islamists
