Now they have done it. The Islamist terrorists, the Islamo-fascists, the so-called “holy warriors.”

With the terrorizing, raping, slaughtering, stabbing and shooting to death of hundreds of innocent children, women and men at the Russian school in Beslan, these barbarians who are hiding behind the religion of Islam with their screams of “Allah akbar” (God is great) have finally and indisputably shown to a horrified world their real face – namely unmitigated evil.

This latest incomprehensible barbarity together with the recent blowing up of two Israeli buses filled with women and children by suicidal homicide bombers – as well as the Sept. 11 massacre and other previous enormities – cannot be explained away or defended with “justified grievances,” poverty, injustice, the Palestinian-Israeli issue or the great Satan America.

No longer have the almost one billion Muslims the luxury to simply stand by and explain away these unspeakable atrocities committed in the name of Allah.

The millions of decent Muslims had better come forward immediately and join the civilized world in the war against these evildoers and self-proclaimed “holy warriors” and show the world by massive, passionate protest demonstrations and sermons in every mosque and Islamic religious school that they really mean it because nothing – nothing at all – can justify these abominations and obscene crimes against humanity in the name of one of the world’s great religions.

Dr. Klaus D. Kuck, Lewiston