Shoshana Bryen op-ed (JINSA Report #1050) runs in Cutting Edge News, 1/3/11
How Long Can A Thirst for Revenge Last?
Shoshana Bryen
January 3rd 2011
Five men arrested in Denmark and Sweden this week had been plotting to attack the offices of Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper at the center of the 2005 Muhammad cartoons.
How Long Can A Thirst for Revenge Last?
Shoshana Bryen
January 3rd 2011
Five men arrested in Denmark and Sweden this week had been plotting to attack the offices of Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper at the center of the 2005 Muhammad cartoons.
The would-be terrorists were, according to experts, very professional and very precise. They had no grandiose plan to hit national symbols, no plan for the mass murder of innocents, no nukes or chemical weapons—just a well-constructed plan to exact revenge on a chosen target. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula says the offense given to Muhammad, to Islam and to Muslims is so great that more revenge attacks can be expected. This raises larger cultural and security questions about giving offense and taking revenge.