We've seen things like this before

Submitted by Peter Herz (United States), Mar 6, 2007 at 07:15

come to think of it, didn't someone in Saddam Hussein's regime once accuse Shi'ism of having been invented by a Jewish convert to Islam?

It strikes me that Islamic radicals always are out to blame someone else for their problems.

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