{"id":3322,"date":"2005-06-03T13:41:03","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T21:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/03\/%e2%80%9cinsurgents%e2%80%9d-massacre-sufis\/"},"modified":"2005-06-03T13:41:03","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T21:41:03","slug":"insurgents-massacre-sufis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/03\/insurgents-massacre-sufis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInsurgents\u201d Massacre Sufis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMichael Totten is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeltotten.com\/archives\/000838.html\">all riled-up over the Sufi massacre and Reuters:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A person who deliberately mass-murders his fellow citizens because they belong to the \u201cwrong\u201d religious sect is not an insurgent. The \u201cinsurgents\u201d are not oppressed by a Sufi regime in Iraq, nor can Iraq\u2019s government be considered even remotely dominated by Sufis. Those killed weren\u2019t part of the government or police force in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInsurgent\u201d is a morally and ethically neutral term. There are good insurgents and bad in this world, just as there are good guerillas and bad. There are not, however, good mass-murdering terrorists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this week&#8217;s Portland liberal hawks drinking club meeting, Sufism was discussed in some detail in connection with Friedman&#8217;s claim that Islam needs a reformation. My recollection of history is that the Sufi Muslims were at the center of Islam&#8217;s Golden Age, so what they really need is to return to their roots. Apparently these murdering terrorists agree that the Sufis are way too civilized for current events in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Friedman should think this over.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Totten is all riled-up over the Sufi massacre and Reuters: A person who deliberately mass-murders his fellow citizens because they belong to the \u201cwrong\u201d religious sect is not an insurgent. The \u201cinsurgents\u201d are not oppressed by a Sufi regime in Iraq, nor can Iraq\u2019s government be considered even remotely dominated by Sufis. Those killed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/03\/insurgents-massacre-sufis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cInsurgents\u201d Massacre Sufis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-RA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}