Twisting history

By Diana West
October 21, 2005

Big week for Uncle Sam. First, there was the referendum on the 
new Iraqi constitution, which, by the way, contains all provisions
necessary for a sharia-ruled state. Then, at the president's by-now-
annual Ramadan dinner, President Bush announced, "For the first time
in our nation's history, we have added a Koran to the White House
Library."

Anything wrong with this undoubtedly historic picture? Freedom
marches on in Iraq, and tolerance expands its reach at home, or 
so they say. But I would put it this way: Democracy marches on 
in Iraq, and the Koran expands its reach at home.

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Is it just me, or does the president's gesture of inclusion sock 
the rest of us in the head? Fun-loving, peacenik Muslims aside, 
the Koran is indisputably the favorite book of Osama bin Laden, 
Abu Musab Zarqawi, the killers of Daniel Pearl, Hamas bus bombers, 
London Underground bombers and anyone who has ever hidden an IED 
on an Iraqi road to kill or maim an American soldier -- none of 
which is the best recommendation for White House honors.

But maybe the president meant he would now be reading the Koran. 
He could start with Chapter 5, Verse 32, which he's taken to quoting 
as, well, chapter-and-verse evidence of Islam's aversion to bloodshed 
-- always skipping the fatal exception. Mr. Bush will say: Killing an
innocent human is like killing all of humanity, and then leave it at
that. My translation of the Koran says: "... whosoever kills a human
being, except [as punishment] for murder or for spreading corruption
in the land, it shall be like killing all humanity." Easy guess that
among Mr. Bush's Ramadan guests were a few who consider Americans
guilty of murder, Israelis innocent of nothing, and both, as non-
Muslims, complicit in "spreading corruption in the land" -- and thus
deserving death, dismemberment and banishment as outlined in Chapter
5, Verse 33. 

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Full article at "The Washington Times"
http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20051020-092128-9590r.htm

Cheers, Steve..

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