The Daily Star of Lebanon has posted a summary of op-ed pieces from papers throughout the Middle-East. Written under the headline Terrorism is a ‘cancer’ spreading through Muslim world, it's a collection well worth reading. You can find it here, and here's a selection:

Arab News (Riyadh): The pro-government daily says the real victim behind the attacks in the region is Islam and the Arabs, not the Americans or other foreigners. “The biggest victim of all is Islam. The actions of the fanatics feed Islamophobia. They send the warped message that Islam is a religion drenched in blood. They must stop.

But it is not enough to say that this is the work of a minuscule minority, that the overwhelming majority of Muslims are sickened by these attacks. It is not enough to condemn. It is not even enough to hunt them down and punish them. The world has to see that the cancer threatening the Muslim world is being cut out ­ vigorously. Unless something is done, it will create a backlash of its own ­ against Muslims, against Islam.”

Al-Ahram (Cairo): Columnist Salama Ahmed Salama slams US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the government-owned daily saying that he is as “brutal” and “unfair” as Saddam Hussein for the way Arab prisoners are treated in Guantanamo Bay.

“It has become difficult to differentiate between Rumsfeld and Saddam as well as between (British Premier Tony) Blair and (former Iraqi Deputy Premier) Tareq Aziz.”

“Those who speak today of the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein’s regime and the absence of justice under the Baath authority will realize that what the Bush administration is committing through Rumsfeld is not less brutal nor less unfair than what Saddam Hussein did.” American practices are “stirring up feelings of injustice and rage, which encourages hatred of the United States.”