WHEN HEALERS BECOME MURDERERS
By MICHAEL D. EVANS
A burning SUV loaded with gas cylinders crashed into the main terminal at Glasgow Airport on June 30, the day after two luxury cars packed with cans of gasoline, gas cylinders, and nails were found in central London. Incredibly, none of the vehicles exploded and only one terrorist in the flaming SUV was injured – critically burned in the abortive attack.
As security authorities investigated the two attacks, it emerged that they had apparently been carried out by the same terrorist cell. What was shockingly unexpected was the identities of the suspects: all were doctors or medical personnel affiliated with Britain’s National Health Service.
Dr. Bilal Abdulla, 27, who was arrested at the scene of the airport attack, was the only British-born suspect of the eight Muslims arrested. By some weird link, all eight people held in the attacks are connected to the National Health Service: Abdulla and Ahmed; Dr. Mohammed Asha, and his wife, Marwa Daana, a laboratory researcher, both Palestinians; Dr Sabeel Ahmed, an Indian; two medical students, and Dr. Mohammed Haneef, an Indian (he was arrested in Australia).
We should not be surprised to learn that al-Qaida was behind these attacks, which in fact originated in Iraq.
Canon Andrew White, the Anglican vicar of Baghdad, told The Times of London in April that he had met an Iraqi al-Qaida leader at a religious conference in the Jordanian capital of Amman, who had boasted about his group’s plans to attack Britain. "Those who cure you will kill you," was how White quoted the man’s warning.
What new perversion of Islam is now being perpetrated? Instead of ordinary suicide-bombers, the jihadists have become so filled with hatred for life that they are now sending suicide-DOCTOR-bombers. The middle-class college graduates who carried out 9/11 should have dispelled the illusion that Islamist terrorists are the frustrated products of a poverty and powerlessness that left them with no future but “glorious martyrdom” for the cause. But doctors?
These are the heroes of every mother’s dream – and not just Arab mothers. These are people who supposedly had devoted long years of study to be able to devote themselves to the supreme value of saving lives. Why are they suddenly willing to sacrifice their own lives in order to commit mass murder for the sake of jihad?
When an Islamist doctor living in the West examines the society around him, does he consider it to be infected with the sins of the Great Satan and therefore in need of radical purging? Does he consider the spiritual disease of the West to be so dangerous, that it must be destroyed along with its carriers?
As Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, Britain’s new shadow security minister, expressed her shock at the NHS link: "It sends rather a chill down the spine to think that people's values can be so perverted. It means obviously that you can't make any assumptions, or have any preconceptions about the kind of people who might become terrorists.”
National Health Service physicians don’t plant car bombs and attack airports without considerable outside backing. The dots are connected from the al-Qaida warning to the semi-incinerated doctor in the front seat of the SUV at Glasgow Airport. What they have in common is a belief in a totalitarian political system masquerading as a religion. Their bigotry entitles them to blow up people they won’t tolerate.
The Islamofascists perpetrate spectacular atrocities, knowing the media will cover all the gory details. They exploit the media to their own ends, using the press to help them terrorize and exhaust the soul of a democracy, helping to spread the virus of fear.
Do these attacks mean that Islam has become so perverted by fanaticism that it has changed the historic role of physician from healer to mass murderer? As far as al-Qaida is concerned, it has: those who used to cure us indeed would kill us.
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