The crime of falafel

I haven’t read about these falafel executions until I read this op-ed by UPI columnist Claude Salhani. I read it this morning and it’s been in my mind all day. Read the article and try to comprehend—if you can—the sort of mindset it takes to kill somebody for selling falafel.

To any Muslims who maybe reading this, I beseech you, fight the enemy within, for that is your true enemy, not Israelis or Jews or Westerners or Christians. As much as we in the West may despise Islamic extremism, at the end of the day far more Muslims are killed by the extremists than non-Muslims.

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Recent news reports from the Iraqi capital indicate radical Islamists are launching a campaign to prohibit the sale of ... falafel. Yes, you heard right, falafel. While this is the sort of news you might expect to hear from a late-night stand-up comedian on television, sadly, this is not a joke, and a number of falafel vendors who failed to heed the warnings have paid with their lives.