Right in the Heart of London, The Challange in Black and White

Below are the comments made by the London-based editor of a major Arab newspaper following the execution of Saddam, the murdered of millions of Muslims. If this is the response, imagine the challenge we are up against. Is there a more clear message of hating the infidel first, no matter what, than this statement?

This is the message that will be read in Muslim newspapers and preached in mosques all over the Arab world by millions who refuse to let go of thinking that is outdated by 700 years. Sad but true and very dangerous.

Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper

The timing of this execution [during the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha] is an affront to all Arabs and Muslims. It is an act of scorn against a great religion by the United States and the Iraqi government.

Arab public opinion wonders who deserves to be tried and executed: Saddam Hussein who preserved the unity of Iraq, its Arab and Islamic identity and the coexistence of its different communities such as Shias and Sunnis ... or those who engulfed the country into this bloody civil war.