howdie ed i think the big role that the us assumes in the world particularly it's domination relative to other countries in the un has the world in response having high expectations of the us it isn't necessarily a different perspective on what constitutes moral behavior in islamic rules of warfare one isn't to take a life out of anger and this is reflected in a tradition in which ali muhammad's nephew forced himself to refrain from killing a man whom he defeated in battle simply because he realized that anger would motivate his action of course saddam isn't much of a muslim for whatever reason there's an atmosphere of chaos and apathy in many of the arab states maybe it's a vacuum left after european control who knows it's politics not religion