Wednesday, August 26, 2009
One aspect of UK sentiment on Megrahi
"The message sent by Obama’s FBI director, who said Scotland had given comfort to terrorists and the back of its hand to those who’d promised justice for their victims, is a vindictive one which reinforces the Muslim world’s perception of America and its allies. The comment of Reverand Ian Galloway of the Church of Scotland, on the other hand, contains a lesson Mr Obama needs to learn if he hopes to persuade Muslims we have more in common than that which divides us and that we are children of the same Book".
IMO: That aspect of Nelson's views sounds fair. In Ramadan, which it is, Muslims fast and consider compassion and mercy, and Megrahi's release is at least that. Many people, such as Christine Grahame (MSP) reckon Megrahi was framed anyway, and that the instigator of the Lockerbie bombing is alive and well in Washington, D.C. - what you might expect, I suppose, and regrettably Americans leave a very bad impression on the rest of the world. We can only hope that the Obama administration will show more reason than we are beginning to expect. Here we think also of less related items such as the removal of the Jewish settlements in Jerusalem, supposedly agreed already.
IMO: That aspect of Nelson's views sounds fair. In Ramadan, which it is, Muslims fast and consider compassion and mercy, and Megrahi's release is at least that. Many people, such as Christine Grahame (MSP) reckon Megrahi was framed anyway, and that the instigator of the Lockerbie bombing is alive and well in Washington, D.C. - what you might expect, I suppose, and regrettably Americans leave a very bad impression on the rest of the world. We can only hope that the Obama administration will show more reason than we are beginning to expect. Here we think also of less related items such as the removal of the Jewish settlements in Jerusalem, supposedly agreed already.
# posted by uv : 3:36 AM
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