Anti-democracy
Mary Madigan
In Australia, extremists harassed Iraqis leaving a polling station by threatening them and taking photographs. There was a fight and a bomb scare.
Mr Hogan said [the protesters] were holding the same black flag with white lettering that has appeared as a backdrop in videos released by Iraqi insurgents featuring foreign hostages.[Link thanks to Tim Blair and Mike Hill]International Organisation for Migration Iraqi adviser Thair Wali said the protesters' flag and Arabic slogans identified them as Wahabis, or followers of an austere brand of Sunni Islam practised mostly in Saudi Arabia.
Mr Wali said the fight was sparked by protesters taking photographs of voters leaving the station
Normally I wouldn't appreciate such intimidation tactics being used against political protestors, even ones I disagree with -- but doing to them *exactly* what they're doing to the voters seems to me not to be crossing any important lines.
Wahhabis believe that the Koran is the constitution. Zarqawi said that he was opposed to democracy because it’s "based on the right to choose your religion," he said, and that is "against the rule of God."
His idea of God, anyway. The protesters in Australia, the hijackers who flew the planes into the WTC, the Bali bombers, the Saudi government, the Iranian mullahs, the government of the Sudan, Hamas, Hizbollah and the publishers of these schoolbooks, used in at these American mosques all believe the same thing.
People like them keep my blood angrier than is good for me.