Beheading Causes Wave of Disgust Across Arab World

No, just kidding.

In fact, it’s headline news that a whopping three Arab and Muslim countries have condemned the atrocity. Three of them found it in their heart of hearts to point out that beheading a civilian trying to rebuild Iraq might be a little unseemly. Three of them – so you can tell that that’s a region of the world that’s ripe for an Enlightenment style wave of reflexive soul-searching.

Meanwhile, we enter Week 3 of “reasons why its wrong to make people feel bad about themselves”. Not that I’m trying to justify the abuses – the improper treatment of detainees is a Geneva violation and I’m grateful that the LA Times has seen fit to start covering such things – but we can all agree that pressure done to humiliate and intimidate detainees is different from cutting off someone’s head with a dull knife for 30 seconds, right? Why isn’t the Arab press covering, let alone condemning, this atrocity? And why isn’t our press telling us that?

Let’s take a look at who didn’t condemn the inhumane, filmed beheading of a human being:

Egypt – receives US$2 billion from the United States every year

Mexico – drug-based economy that the US bails out every couple of years like its our job

The Palestinian Authority – created by Clinton, maintained by hundreds of millions of US dollars each year (charming snippet: “Sawsan Al-Masri, a 24-year-old Gaza mother of one, smiled when asked about the beheading. “He deserved it… Do you think what the Americans did to the detainees was less ugly?” [umm... yes I do, surprisingly])

Turkey – all I’m saying is, keep it up and we’ll give the Kurds their own state.

And, although this article doesn’t mention it, the United Nations (by omission – Annan was like “yeah, of course I don’t think its a “good idea”, but do I “condemn it” per se”) – why is the UN still allowed to act like this? Don’t we like pay for the electricity of that place?