San Antonio Express-News fifth-columnist Mansour El-Kikhia insists he won't apologize for Muslim terrorist attacks. He also does not think other Muslims or Muslim organizations should apologize for them either. That's fine with me, because I don't see him (or them) as bearing any personal responsibility for those attacks.

Unfortunately, and has often been the case with individual Muslims and Muslim groups, we don't get an unambiguous condemnation of terrorism, either.

It is rejection of U.S. and British policies in the Middle East, not Islam, that has promoted terrorism against America. And for the benefits of those who do not know, 95 percent of Middle Easterners are Muslims. Hence, it is only natural that those opposing the United States and Britain in the region would be Muslims. In India, they would have been Hindu; in Latin America or Northern Ireland, they would have been Catholic.

More important, it was the British and the United States that drew first blood. The Middle East didn't come to America or go to Britain; rather, America and Britain went to the Middle East. Both powers used and abused regimes, toppling some and keeping others in power. They never thought that the people they were helping suppress were human beings with needs, beliefs and emotions. They didn't care as long as their interests were served.

In other words, not only are non-terrorist mainstream Muslims not reponsible for the terrorist attacks, the terrorists are not responsible for them. Rather, terrorism is the fault of the US and the UK, and it is therefore the wictimized nations that are responsible and need to apologize.

No, Mansour, I didn't expect you to apologize. But that does not mean that i find your apologia on behalf of the terrorists acceptable, either. If you find the need to defend the terrorists, please go back home to Libya and do it from there.

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