Guess who is the speaker?

SCA has a few quotes in this piece that are pretty hair-raising, and you’d swear they came from Osama bin Laden or one of his pals.

“Mr. Blair is using this crime and all these dead people as a justification for this absurd idea of a war on terrorism. ‘Terror’ is a word… Terror is a tactic, it’s not a strategy. The idea that Muslims have some kind of sickness in their bodies, which must be cured, which is the idea behind Bush, behind Mr. Blair, and behind Mr. Berlusconi’s government in Italy – It must be resisted. It’s not the Muslims who are sick. It’s Bush and Blair and Berlusconi who are sick. It’s not the Muslims who need to be cured. It’s the imperialist countries that need to be cured.

Well, I guess the speaker is – in a way – one of Osama’s pals. Still took me by surprise, though. I mean, I knew he was extreme…but who knew he was that extreme?

I do have to say, I’ve never heard Bush or Blair or any of the Coalition people suggest that there is anything “wrong” with the Muslim people – if anything they have defended the Muslims from the spurious charge that Democracy is beyond their ken.

Go check it out. Maybe you folks are smarter than I am. Wouldn’t surprise me! :-)