As being reported in various online and "offline" outlets today ~
"The kidnappers of US journalist in Iraq threatened to kill her, Reuters agency reports. Al Jazeera Television broadcasted a short clip in which the kidnappers threatened to execute the journalist if in the next 72 hours the US does not release all women from Iraqi prisons.
The 28-year old Jill Carol from the Christian Science Monitor newspaper was kidnapped earlier this month by unknown kidnappers who killed her interpreter."
THIS SOURCE:
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?r...0&newsid=80939
It is also being reported that many Islamic voices support her release. According to
www.natashatynes.org/mental_mayhem/ this includes:
+ Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the Conference for People of Iraq / Iraqi Accordance Front [and the man Carroll had an appointment with the day she was abducted]
+ Grand Mosque of Paris rector Dalil Boubakeur
+ The Iraqi Islamic Party
+ The Muslim Brotherhood
+ Muthana Harith al-Dari, a leader of Iraq's Muslim Scholars Association, an umbrella group for a number of leading Sunni clerics, or Ulama
BUT PERHAPS MOST TELLING TO ME WAS WHAT NIHAD AWAD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS, OR CAIR, HAS BEEN QUOTED AS SAYING.
In a Reuters story from yesterday, Awad said, ""We appeal to the kidnappers to release her on humanitarian grounds...Killing her or harming her will harm the cause of the Iraqi people and any cause the kidnappers may hold."
And then, in today's NPR hourly newscast, broadcast at Noon [EST] and available via streaming media at their web site,
www.npr.org, Lakshmi Singh [at about the 1 min. 20 sec. mark of this 5 minute broadcast], reporting on Awad and others with CAIR, being in Iraq working for the release of Carroll. SHE QUOTED AWAD AS SAYING, "The abductors have a chance to prove to the world that Muslims are an indulgent people."
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Question: Does that mean that all the previous abductions and savage beheadings of innocent westerners, including journalists, "prove Muslims are NOT indulgent?"
Or has that already been proven? With Awad simply having a convenient political memory?
Or WHEN Carroll is murdered -- as I believe she will be -- will we finally be able to shed the PC cover for terrorists in the media and soundly and roundly renounce them, and fully support ALL efforts to fight and defeat them?
I WOULD LOVE TO BE WRONG ABOUT WHAT I EXPECT WILL HAPPEN TO JILL CARROLL.
I'm sure even if she is murdered the terrorists will still have their apologists on many sides.
Sad, sad, sad...