The picture below is of the Egyptian state crushing Copt protesters under the wheels of armored personnel carriers. KGS
Threatening its own civilians is a traditional mode of state terrorism in parts of the Muslim world. A second type of state terrorism – the murderous one – has recently increased significantly. A few among many examples: On 11 July, Syrian soldiers shot and killed 10 participants in a funeral procession in the town of Homs.1 During the funeral of Kurdish leader Mashaal Tammo on 8 October in Qamishli, Syrian security forces fired indiscriminately at the crowd and killed five mourners and wounded three.2 A day later, 24 Copts were killed by Egyptian security forces in Cairo and more than one hundred were wounded.3 One can add many more examples of homicidal state terrorism including in Libya or Yemen. The principle remains the same: Arab government forces not only threaten their own civilians, but also kill them intentionally. A third type of state terrorism is trying to murder foreign civilians abroad. Recent examples were the planned attacks on the Saudi ambassador and the Israeli Embassy in Washington, both ordered by Iran. Murderous state terrorism has extremely vicious precedents. In 1982, the Syrian regime of President Hafez el Assad killed at least ten thousand people — and probably a multiple of that — in the town of Hama. The murdered were mainly civilians. In 1988, Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi air force released poisonous gas over the Kurdish city of Halabja in Northern Iraq, killing thousands.4 Even more murderous was the Al Anfal campaign of that year, where an estimated 100,000 Kurds in Northern Iraq, mainly civilians, were killed by Iraqi forces. A major case of homicidal state terrorism by a Muslim state abroad was carried out in 1994 when the Jewish AMIA center in Buenos Aires was bombed. Eighty five people were killed and 300 wounded. It was the largest attack on Jews outside of Israel since World War II. In 1992, there was the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in which 29 people were killed. The attackers were never found.
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A common sentiment among liberal academia.
Via The Blaze:
A Kent State history professor, who has allegedly been linked to elements of Muslim extremism, reportedly lashed out at a former Israeli diplomat speaking at the university Tuesday night.
The event was co-sponsored by the undergraduate student government and entitled “An Evening with Ishmael Khaldi.” Khaldi spoke in regards to his book, A Shepherd’s Journey, which details his life journey from a small tent in a Bedouin village to the inner-circles of the Israel Foreign Service. When his speech ended, Khaldi opened the floor to a Q&A, where History Professor Julio Pino rushed to be the first to question Khaldi.
John Milligan of KentWired, an independent student publication, reports that Pino began to question how Khaldi could justify speaking of foreign aid given from Israel to countries like Turkey, when that aid was financed by “blood money that came from the deaths of Palestinian children and babies.” Milligan then captured the the most shocking part of the exchange:
“The crowd fell into an awkward silence as the two continued to exchange words from across the auditorium.
‘It is not respectful to me here,’ Khaldi said.
Pino responded by saying ‘your government killed people’ and claimed Khaldi was not being respectful to him.
‘I do respect you, but you are wrong,’ Khaldi said. ‘It’s a lie.’
The exchange ended as Pino stormed out of the auditorium shouting ‘Death to Israel!’”
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