I wrote the following essay right after the brutal murder of Nicholas Berg by Islamic terrorists. I refrained from putting it here on my diary feeling that perhaps it was filled with too much raw emotion. In light of the recent beheadings of more innocents I decided that it is the only proper response to this kind of horror. I no longer feel apologetic about what I wrote. The men who committed these acts are monsters.
Open letter to terrorists of Islam
I owe you a debt of gratitude today.
Once I was blind, but now I see.
You have shown me beyond any shadow of any doubt that the god of Islam, that you say you serve, is a bloody god.
He must be a great god indeed that it requires five of you to take one Jew who is tied hand and foot and slaughter him like an animal. You must be very brave. What part of your soul had to wither and die for you to be able to do such a heinous act?
You accuse the Jews of, mixing the blood of children with their Passover matzah, which has never happened in the history of humankind. But you in your infinite wisdom, have shown beyond all doubt in front of the whole world that you brutally sacrifice innocent life while chanting the name of your god.
You call those who do not worship this bloody god, the Great Satan. You have made a fatal error. The day you realize that the enemy you thought you were fighting meant you no harm will be a bitter day indeed. For YOU are the Great Satan. The blood of innocents is on your hands and on the hands of your god.
If this is Allah, I want nothing to do with him.
And I will no longer defend Islam in any of its forms, until you purge this sin from your midst, and until you spew this cancer out of your belly. How will you ever atone for this perversion? For you who have shown no mercy, how will you then ask for mercy?
I tremble for you, for you have touched the apple of God's eye. And the blood of your brother cries out to the Almighty from the ground.