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So, essentially, Hezbollah, along with several organizations of moderate Muslims, has condemned the attack on the French satirists. Let's repeat this: Hezbollah,the Iranian proxy that's pretty much become everything Arafat's PLO was at the height of its power but moreso, is actually more or less a voice of reason in this specific context. This is about on par with Pat Robertson sounding like a voice of reason on a controversial topic. Not only this, but he actually condemns people beheading other people in the name of Islam as a contradiction of the tenets of the religion, and doing more harm to it than anyone else.
To me, the article is one where it's hard to come up with commentary beyond the irony that an extremist working with an organization of murderers and cutthroats in the service of one of the most vicious dictators of the modern era can sound reasonable on anything. What this illustrates is that the stopped watch can be right twice a day, and that the people who dedicate themselves to the armed overthrow of much of the basis of the modern world are ultimately human beings and capable of entertaining multiple contradictory viewpoints at the same time.
So, essentially, Hezbollah, along with several organizations of moderate Muslims, has condemned the attack on the French satirists. Let's repeat this: Hezbollah,the Iranian proxy that's pretty much become everything Arafat's PLO was at the height of its power but moreso, is actually more or less a voice of reason in this specific context. This is about on par with Pat Robertson sounding like a voice of reason on a controversial topic. Not only this, but he actually condemns people beheading other people in the name of Islam as a contradiction of the tenets of the religion, and doing more harm to it than anyone else.
To me, the article is one where it's hard to come up with commentary beyond the irony that an extremist working with an organization of murderers and cutthroats in the service of one of the most vicious dictators of the modern era can sound reasonable on anything. What this illustrates is that the stopped watch can be right twice a day, and that the people who dedicate themselves to the armed overthrow of much of the basis of the modern world are ultimately human beings and capable of entertaining multiple contradictory viewpoints at the same time.
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