Imagine a Muslim government popping off American and Israeli scientists because these were perceived to be a threat to the Islamic state and further imagine that this had been going on for the better part of several decades. Imagine if Robert Oppenheimer (1904– 1967) and Edward Teller (1908–2003) were killed right before they could complete their work on creating the first nuclear device of mass destruction. Would any of the victim governments tolerate such a violation of their sovereignty and of the human rights of their citizens? Would they not be preparing for war at the first possible moment because their national (human) assets were being destroyed?
Would their media, pundits, commentators, opinion makers, and policy executives not be in overdrive condemning the blatant disregard of international law, the arrogance of power, and the ideological foundations of Islam that permit the Muslims to go out and take the lives of innocent researchers who want nothing more than to advance the cause of their people? Would not the cacophony of these voices be so loud, so pervasive, and so convincing that anyone asking for calm would be summarily drowned out on the way to a military resolution of the crisis?
Yet when eminent Muslim scientists, who have pursued the “nuclear option”, are being regularly and consistently assassinated or found dead in “tragic accidents” for the better part of 65 years, there has been no outcry, no sympathy, no s... >>>
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