Violence in Iraq

Zeyad has a dramatic post. I'm not so sure this was a bad thing. Iraqis like Americans need to know that freedom and democracy have to be defended. It will be better for them to have trained security forces do the fighting, but consider what life in America would be like if we had Syria and Iran on our borders instead of Canada and Mexico. The number of people killed in this episode is still tiny, in terms of the whole population, but mosques can be rebuilt. Maybe this will make some Sunnis realize that the terrorists don't deserve their protection and support.

Until now, the terrorists have relied on the Wahhabi message that God wants his servants to kill people. If that were true, why does He forbid human sacrifice? How is the "martyrdom" of suicide bombers different from killing a young man or woman on an altar in a mosque?