Showing an actual execution, or the noose around the condemned man's neck on Television is in shockingly poor taste and only brings out the worst in Human nature. Regardless of what they have done.
If whoever ordered the tortures in Abu Gharib was captured and sentenced to death and people in the middle east publically exhulted in their grisly death the west would quite reasonably be outraged by the barbarism of it.
Hopefully a new years resolution is that we are all a little kinder to each other
The Arabs
do exult in the grisly deaths of those that they have kidnapped and murdered. Whether they are mercenaries ("private security consultants"), reporters, or even aid workers, their savage beheadings have been videotaped and broadcast, and the bodies of many have been hung or otherwise displayed in public places.
Personally, I think watching the video is akin to watching a snuff film, and it's not something I want to see, but to imply that it is only the West that is perpetrating this form of barbarism, and that the Muslim world is unaccustomed seeing such grim spectacles, is absolutely absurd. Any Muslim fundamentalist or Iraqi insurgent supporter that claims moral outrage at the film of Saddam's hanging is a hypocrite. Many innocent civilians, from construction workers to medical workers to journalists, obviously non-combatants, have been kidnapped and subsequently tortured and murdered as the unblinking lenses of video cameras recorded the horrific scenes for broadcast and circulation on the internet and of recorded copies. These are often viewed for entertainment by the Arab public. The execution video of Saddam Hussein is tame by comparison, as are the offenses of the kidnapped hostages when seen next to his.crimes .
