Terrorist Earthquake Strikes

So tell us, oh great Islamic thinkers, is this the hand of Allah the Merciful and Compassionate? Why just a month ago we heard from the Palestinian Authority religious leaders, Muhammed Yousef Al-Mlaifi the director of the Kuwaiti Ministry Of Endowment's research center, the UAE Khaleej Times and Al Qaida itself preaching that the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina was Allah's punishment to the United States for fighting Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and the PA, and for threatening Iran and Syria. "The terrorist Katrina is one of the soldiers of Allah, it was not mother nature but Allah", they ranted on glorying in the natural disaster.

But now, the slipper is on the other foot, oh worshippers of the crescent. If Allah was behind Katrina, he must likewise be behind the earthquake, unless of course there is another god working at odds with Allah. Could it be Allah is not (gasp) in complete control? Or could it be that Allah's aim is bad and he was shooting for California but hit Pakistan? Perhaps it is Muhammed, the myopic, corrective lenses be upon him, that sent this tragedy.

Pakistan — Scores of activists from an Islamic charity linked to a banned militant group were killed in Saturday's devastating earthquake in northern Pakistan.

The militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, was outlawed by Pakistan in January 2002, a month after some of its members were accused of having taken part in an attack on India's parliament in New Delhi.

A spokesman for the Jamat-ud-Dawa charity, whose members are drawn from Lashkar's ranks, said the quake had leveled its mosques, hospitals, schools and seminaries.

"Many of our members have been killed," the spokesman said.

From the NewYork Post.

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