Where's the outrage now?

Question

4 Canadian soldiers were passing out candy to children in Iraq, when an Islamic militant tossed a bomb at them, killing all 4 soldiers and who knows how many children. I am tired of hearing how Americans are killing children, when there is no anger ot crying over muslims killing children.
Notice, the liberal media probably won't even mention this, and if they do, they will not mention how many children were killed.
Seems they always want to point the finger at America when civillians suffer casualties.
Where is the outcry now?

I heard it on FOX News. But, I'll bet the L.A. Times, N Y Times, and St Louis Post Dispatch barely mention it.
And sine you "liberals" asked "What liberal media", I am sure it is the paper you read.

Answer 1

Muslims do not care about he rest of the world. If they did, they would be outraged over militants in their own religion. Yet, they take no action. They cry out if someone makes fun of them. (Danish Cartoon) So they have no sense of humor. They cry out if they are criticized. Therefore, they do not believe in freedom of speech. I see Islam as evil. And if anyone wants to dispute that, then prove to me that Muslims will speak out against the violent militants who claim to be Islamic. The old saying, "The proof is in the pudding", and well, all Muslims make up the pudding of Islam.
And it appears to be a very bad recipe.

Answer 2

War is never fair!,.

In war only bad things happen!. never good! or so they would have us believe.. The media have their own agenda to follow and often likes to use its soap box like ability to express its own views and cause problems for governments . The sad fact is the death of those Canadian soldiers is more news worthy than what they where originally doing !.. giving out candy to the deprived kids..

Personally speaking I'm totally fed up of hearing about Muslims Islam and the pathetic religious gobblygook crappola!!.. its about time the whole religious ka-boogle started doing what they preach and live their lives by the true meaning of their faith.. Peace love understanding and harmony!! wouldn't the world be a better place if they did huh?

Answer 3

I think BBC News is regarded by most Americans as the front line of the so-called liberal media, and at the time of writing this story is their lead item in the South Asia news section. So much for them not reporting it.

I haven't heard stories about Americans killing children, though in some strikes children have been casualties of war. No-one is accusing America of attacking children for the sake of it. However before America/Britain/Canada/et al marched into Iraq there were no suicide bombers, no terrorists, no beheadings, no police recruits being abducted and murdered. It simply isn't valid to say that some responsibility for the deaths of those children does not lie with Western governments. Even Saddam wouldn't have let off bombs outside schools, so he must have been making a slightly better job of protecting the civilian population as a whole than the Allied troops are, however much of a fascist he was in the meantime.

Answer 4

Good question but as far as I know and have heard, about 25 children were injured, but none died.

Whether the reports I've heard are true of course is beyond my knowledge. But it's a crazy interpretation of Islam, and it's a generalism that Muslims rarely criticise their own to any meaningful level.

They seem to ignore the realities of most Muslim states, corruption, endemic state violence, women as second class citizens, and the warped fundamentalists who want no music, no education for women, the right for men to marry children, beatings if you don't pray five times a day and no rights to do anything than worship Allah - a god fiction like the rest of the religions.

Answer 5

It's a little hard to believe this happened, since I thought Canada had no troops in Iraq. (Afghanistan yes, Iraq no.) This sounds like a story dreamed up by some political wierdo to make a point about something. Unfortunately, the facts are so garbled that the point is lost.

Answer 6

Your right!!! There should be an outcry!!!! The media will spin this and hardly mention this. They have a democratic agenda, which is far from the truth!!! I'm tired of both parties, and I'm going to vote Independent here in America...

Answer 7

Get off your high horse. Of course this is an outrage, and of course people hear about it, and of course people - yes, here in America - are crying out for a solution.

The problem is that people of your opinion - "poor pitiful us, we only want to help them be free" - have no idea how the world actually works, and that throughout history - not just now - people like to work out their own problems. It's not pretty, but you're one of those who wanted us to get into the middle of something that you didn't understand to begin with.

Answer 8

Actually, I heard about it on an ABC affiliate. It may not be Fox, but surely you don't consider it to be the "liberal" media! The fact is, there is no liberal media, because most of them are owned by big corporations who donate money to Republican campaigns.

Answer 9

"It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and mortal terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies t o be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces--it seems a thousand centuries ago--we went into a camp to inoculate it. The children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us, and he was crying. He couldn't say why. We went there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile--a pile of little arms. And I remember...I...I...I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out, I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it, I never want to forget. And then I realized--like I was shot...like I was shot with a diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, "My God, the genius of that. The genius. The will. To do that." Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized that they were stronger than we. That they could stand that--these were not monsters, these were men, trained cadres, these men who fought with their hearts, who have families, who have children, who are filled with love--that they had this strength. The strength! To do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral and at the same time were able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling, without passion, without judgment. Without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us."

Answer 10

I think everyone already knows that americans don't kill children intentionally and that the islamics do. So what, war is hell, that's why everyone should think long and hard before going to war, huh?