JEDDAH, 19 September 2005 — There is no name for such savage behavior. We may use the word “deviant” but it is not nearly strong enough. Amazingly, there are people who used the Internet to defile and insult both Islam and humanity on the recent anniversary of 9/11. Barbaric and incredible as it may seem, they actually celebrated the senseless slaughter of innocents by the mass murderers of Osama Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda organization.

Amid the high-tech madness which poured out of cyberspace, many Saudis acknowledged the garbage for exactly what it was. One man, calling himself “Jedawi” wrote: “I wonder how people can celebrate the killing and deaths of innocent citizens. No religion allows that.”

Perhaps another writer summed it up when he questioned the sanity of those who slaughter women and children and believe that a merciful God will bless them for their acts. “Those people need medical treatment — urgently,” he wrote.

Referring to the senseless deaths of airline passengers, businessmen and women, service workers, emergency and military personnel as the “Battles of New York and Washington,” some people are actually uploading prayers for God to accept as martyrs the murderers of innocent people. Others are praising the slaughter and urging people to defile the teachings of the Prophet (peace be upon him).

One misguided writer said that the so-called mujahedeen will always remember what he called “the great heroes of Manhattan in the 9/11 victory.” He went on to say: “We will dance and celebrate this occasion for another 10 years,” he said, adding that those responsible would continue to plan more slaughters of more innocent people.

On the Al-Farouq website, which is dedicated to encouraging murder and apostasy, a writer boasted that the killers had changed the face of the world and created a “better respected position” for murderers everywhere.

“Those heroes have cleaned the image of the nation that was drawn by hypocrites,” one defiler of Islam writes.

Another deviant calling himself Abu Zubair claimed to have been with Bin Laden the night before the attack and gave a long description of what it was like to contemplate defiling the Qur’an by washing it in the blood of innocents. “He was very nervous and thoughtful, always looking into the sky or staring at the ground,” the deviant wrote. “He was silent most of the time; he hardly spoke to any of us. No one was able to talk to him, even his closest associates couldn’t get a clear answer when they queried him.”