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July 29, 2005
Another forgotten Muslim terrorist attack
Thanks to Technorati, I found Dublin Saab, who is very pissed off about Islamist extremism. I found him because he had linked to an old post of mine about the 1977 hostage-taking at B'nai Brith HQ in Washington, DC.
Oh, you didn't know that 12 armed Black Muslims of the Hanafi school invaded three Washington office buildings in 1977, holding 134 people hostage for two days, two-thirds of them Jews? That the group targeted the national headquarters of B'nai Brith?
They shot a reporter dead. They also shot several others, including Marion Barry, then a councilman and later a rather notorious mayor of DC. Others were beaten up. All were verbally threatened with death.
An eyewitness account.
Another eyewitness account.
Just another forgotten act of Muslim terrorism. (I would say Islamist to distinguish it from mainstream Islam which the moderates are trying to salvage, but I don't think this group could technically be called "Islamist," since it was not any more theologically motivated than, say, most of the Palestinian suicide bombings. They were some variety of Muslim, they thought Jews were the root of their problems, they expressed their grievances by bullying and murdering innocent people. So what else is new?)
UPDATE: Check the comments for a description of another Muslim terrorist attack no one remembers anymore, in 1993, in Turkey.
Judith | 07/29/05 at 04:07 PM | Categories: WWIV
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This is another one nobody remembers anymore:
the arrest and trial of dozens of Islamic terrorists did not dissuade more extremists from continuing to attack Turkish intellectuals fighting for the secular state and values. In July 1993 they set fire to a hotel where a cultural festival was taking place and 37 intellectuals were burned to death.[33] Aziz Nesin, one of Turkey�s leading literary figures, was the main individual target of the fundamentalists. He was accused of intending to publish Salman Rushdie�s �Satanic Verses.� A trial opened against the suspects of the massacre involved only 20 participants of a much bigger group of those responsible.[34]
Ralf Goergens | July 30, 2005 10:54 AM
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