The Independent (London)
Letter
to the Editor
letters@independent.co.uk
Re: Responding to Robert Fisk’s To understand the Islamist beheading of a
French priest, we must remember what happened 20 years earlier (July 27,
2016), http://tinyurl.com/hzeuljs
Robert
Fisk wrote:
The Algerian
civil war—between a brutal Islamist army and the equally savage Algerian army
which had fatally cancelled elections which Islamists would have won in 1992—had
by 1996 already reached Syrian proportions .... It was inevitable
that the killers from the GIA, the Islamic Armed Group, would turn upon all
foreigners—and that also meant priests and bishops. (emphasis added)
It
is not “inevitable” in any civil war—no matter how brutal—that one side murder foreigners.
Certainly, the GIA’s murdering foreigners—even during the brutal Algerian civil
war—was not “inevitable”. It was a choice; it was the wrong choice. The people
who carried out such atrocities were not lawful military combatants; they were criminals,
pure and simple. The fact that Fisk argues otherwise is just another example
how Western journalists lower the ethical bar when it comes to any crime perpetrated
in the Third World—particularly when the crime is perpetrated by extremists in
the name of Islam.
Seth
Barrett Tillman
Seth Barrett Tillman, Submitted as a Letter to the Editor at The Independent (U.K.), Responding to Robert Fisk’s "To understand the Islamist beheading of a French priest ...." New Reform Club (July 31, 2016, 4:39 PM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2016/07/letter-to-editor-responding-to-robert.html>;
2 comments:
Well, don't forget, that was written by the gent who gifted the world with FISKING. As such, it's accuracy, logic, and quality are all as expected.
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