Must Reads
Today, the eve of Ashoura, has seen a marked increase in the number and scale of attacks by terrorist on the people of Iraq, and particularly on Shi’a Muslims. This is Muslim on Muslim violence and yet, the worldwide Sunni population has not stepped forward to demand it stop, to stand between the terrorist and their intended victims or to support the brave American, Iraqi and allied troops who are doing so.This is the beginning of an excellent post by Little Red Blog called Waiting. Excellent post, and winner of last week's Watcher's Council.How long must we wait?
Meanwhile The Education Wonks took second with a post about those churlish junior high children that sent invective letters to a soldier stationed in South Korea, Some Students Need Lessons In Respecting Our Troops.
In the non-Council member category, Gates of Vienna (which has been my "featured blog" for the past several days) won with Co-Opting Jihad, a must-read post that I won't even try to excerpt.
Speaking of must-read posts, QandO took second second with Shattering the Islamic Terrorist Stereotype, which I will excerpt just a bit:
There's much more.
- 90% came from caring, intact families.
- 63% had gone to college.
- 75% were professionals or semi-professionals.
- 13% were madrassa-trained (and most of that 13% from one school)
All entries that received a vote are listed on the Watcher's site.
Blog post #4604 in category
Watcher's Council
posted 1 March 05