Following Satan's Orders

According to the AP, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is sounding pretty pessimistic and whiney these days:

"An audiotape purportedly made by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi lashed out Wednesday at Muslim scholars for not speaking out against U.S. actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying they have 'let us down in the darkest circumstances....'

"'You have let us down in the darkest circumstances and handed us over to the enemy... You have quit supporting the mujahedeen,' he said. 'Hundreds of thousands of the nation's sons are being slaughtered at the hands of the infidels because of your silence.'"

No, "thousands of the nation's sons are being slaughtered" because they listened to your demonic poison, and even erstwhile Sunni sympathizers are seeing the wisdom of making sure they're on the winning side - and that means the side that isn't sawing off heads for Internet dissemination, and is freeing and rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan, and fumigating it of murderous vermin like you.

Or, put another way, never underestimate the pervasive front-running, "look out for #1" nature of Arab culture.

You gotta love his condemnation of the ulama for selling out "God's orders" in exchange for their "money and sons." Apparently even Muslim clerics can do the PR math of what "following God's orders" makes them look like even in the cynical, amoral, corrupt eyes of the generally friendly "world community."

And maybe, just maybe, they're beginning to deduce the horned visage of the "god" Zarqawi serves.