Death Toll Rises to 81 in Algerian Terrorist Attack

As our nation celebrates the inauguration of President Obama, we shouldn't let ourselves be distracted by Muhammad's violent teachings or the bloody fruits of these teachings. So we should ignore the fact that Muhammad said things like:

"I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish prayer, and pay Zakat and if they do it, their blood and property are guaranteed protection on my behalf except when justified by law, and their affairs rest with Allah." (Sahih Muslim 33)

And we should ignore the fact that some of Muhammad's modern followers actually take his teachings seriously. According to a New York Times article on the recent Jihadist attack in Algeria,

One Algerian who managed to escape told France 24 television late Friday night that the kidnappers said, “We’ve come in the name of Islam, to teach the Americans what Islam is.” The haggard-looking man, interviewed at the airport in Algiers, said the kidnappers then immediately executed five hostages.

More than 270 million people have been killed in the name of Islamic Jihad over the past fourteen centuries, and there have been more than 20,000 deadly terrorist attacks since the destruction of the World Trade Center. But whatever you do, don't let it distract you from what's really important: Celebrating the inauguration of Western leaders who have dedicated their lives to defending Muhammad's teachings.

ALGIERS, Algeria — The death toll from the bloody terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed to at least 81 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the complex for explosives found dozens more bodies, many so badly disfigured they could not immediately be identified, a security official said.

Algerian special forces stormed the facility on Saturday to end the four-day siege of the remote desert refinery, and the government said then that 32 militants and 23 hostages were killed, but that the death toll was likely to rise.

The militants came from six countries, were armed to cause maximum destruction and mined the Ain Amenas refinery, which the Algerian state oil company runs along with BP and Norway's Statoil, said Algerian Communications Minister Mohamed Said. The militants "had decided to succeed in the operation as planned, to blow up the gas complex and kill all the hostages," he said in a state radio interview.

With few details emerging from the remote site of the gas plant in eastern Algeria, it was unclear whether anyone was rescued in the final operation, but the number of hostages killed Saturday — seven — was how many the militants had said that morning they still had. (Continue Reading.)