Just one big humanity

President Bush and his supporters not only repeat the mantra that Muslim parents love their children just as we love ours; they make this purported similarity between Muslims and ourselves the main basis of their belief that the Muslim world can be democratized.

NBC News Middle East bureau chief Richard Engel recently appeared on Tim Russert’s program on CNBC to talk about the “unseen Iraq.” He told the story of an Iraqi family whose daughter had been kidnapped. When the leader of the kidnappers called the father on the telephone to get ransom, he put the daughter on the phone to show that she was still alive. The father asked her if they had raped her. Crying, she said yes. The father told the daughter to put the kidnapper on the phone again. The father said to the kidnapper: “I don’t want her.” So the kidnappers killed her.

Yes, Muslims are just like us, aren’t they?

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Note: As of February 25, there was a video link to the Engel interview at the MSNBC page for Meet the Press, which is gone today, Feb. 26. There is still a notice about the Engel interview, but no link:

CNBC’S TIM RUSSERT SHOW
Sat. 7 & 10pm, Sun. 1am ET
The War in Iraq, through the eyes of NBC News’ Richard Engel and Stephen Flynn on terrorism at home and his new book “Edge of Disaster.”

At the CNBC page for the Russert program, there do not seem to be transcripts or videos.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 25, 2007 05:05 PM | Send