Now some of you may look at the above headline and ask me what a "Hashemite" is. Cut down to its essence, a Hashemite is a member of the family of Muhammad. The Kings of Jordan are the last Hashemite rulers on Earth. That makes their words quite important -- more important than those of the House of Saud, whose claim to rule Arabia is relatively recent and based upon their support by the British in their rebellion against the Ottoman Turks during World War I. After all, they are the family of the Muslim Prophet, not upstart Bedouins.

Anyway, that means that King Abdullah II of Jordan has a special place among the rulers of the Arab world. Here is what he has said about the Islamists.

Abdullah called on the gathering to help implement a Jordanian initiative launched in November — dubbed the “Amman Message” — urging Muslims to reject extremism, embrace moderation and tolerate other religions.

“As a start, let us confess that we, Muslims, have not always fulfilled our obligations toward ourselves,” Abdullah said. “Some Muslims, or those who promulgate ’Islamic’ slogans, have defamed Islam and Muslims, intentionally or non-intentionally.”

The king apparently referred to Islamic extremists in Iraq responsible for scores of attacks targeting U.S.-led coalition troops, Iraqi security forces and in many cases ordinary Iraqis in their self declared holy war, or jihad, against that countryÂ’s foreign occupation.

So hear that, al-Qaeda and the rest of you terrorist scum. The family of your own Prophet rejects your words and actions as antithetical to Islam. The enemy of Islam is therefore not the United States -- it is Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and the rest of the terrorist scum who engage in terrorism who are the real enemies of Islam.

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