So the Washington Post is confirming that authorities in Iraq believe the two female suicide bombers had down syndrome and that they did not set off the bomb themselves, it may have been detonated remotely. There are definitely cases of female suicide bombers who are completely willing participants, but this obviously is not the case here. I don't even think I need to describe how absolutely vile this is. There is of course nothing in Islam that sanctions this kind of violence, nonetheless abusing the handicapped in order to achieve it.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Ugh
Posted by The Odalisque at 1:42 PM
Labels: female suicide bombers, iraq, islam
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U.S. army: 2 female Iraqi suicide bombers did not have Down syndrome (AP)
I bet you will not see that placed prominently in the US press. It does not make the act of suicide bombings any less grotesque but it was a jab at Al Qaeda in the war of morales, since suicide bombings are considered a norm.
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