CHOPPING HEADS

New York Post ^ | May 14, 2004 | AMIR TAHERI

[sarcasm]

May 14, 2004 -- THE murder of Nick Berg, a 26-year-old American businessman, by a group of Islamist terrorists in Iraq continues to send shock waves through much of the West. What has impressed most people is the fact that the terrorists cut Mr. Berg's head in the way that sheep are beheaded at the annual Feast of the Sacrifice.

[Monty22]

I'm convinced that mohammed was the anti-christ. No 'religous' leader can possibly be as vile and violent and leave such a legacy of destruction and hell on Earth like he did.

[cripplecreek]

I can't help but think it's going to have to happen here before the herd gets spooked.

[oneoftheothers]

These cockroaches seem to dig deeper and go lower to get closer to their one true god, which Christians call the devil. Who else could they be worshiping when they cutoff an innocent's head, sleep in caves, hide in mosques, smell like a goat, treat women like dirt and offer praise to their special one, that dude down there.

[Cicero]

Murder, oathbreaking, slave-taking, rape, head-chopping, and the rest of these customary Muslim atrocities go back all the way to the Prophet Muhammed. They are not perversions of Islam. They are normal to Islam.

Sometimes Muslims get a bit lazy and they neglect their slave-taking an headchopping. But not usually for very long.

[mylife]

Ahhhh Islam, the religion of Peaces

[tbpiper]

I didn't see the video, but I heard the audio of the murder. What an awful contrast between Burg's screams and shouts of 'allah akbar' trying to drown him out. The ancient pagans used to have lots of loud singing and music to drown the screams of the infants as they sacrificed them to Molech's fires. Makes me think allah an Molech are one and the same.

[The Duke]

Well, to be fair...the British and French harvested their share of heads along the way. Remember William Wallace? Rmember the French Revolution?

[cripplecreek]

That might be a fair comparison, if it weren't hundreds of years ago instead of last week.

[giznort]

I am happy to announce that as a Christian, I have no favorite method of execution, be it beheading as one does a sheep or otherwise.

Islam is not a religion, it is an excuse for violence.

Name one muslim leader who has spoken out against this atrocity.

[Charlespg]

One Algerian specialist in slitting throats and cutting off heads was known as Momo le Nain (Muhammad the Midget). He was a 20-plus-year-old butcher's apprentice recruited by the GIA for the purpose of cutting off people's heads. In 1996 in Ben-Talha, a suburb of the capital Algiers, Momo cut off a record 86 heads in one night, including the heads of more than a dozen children.

and this collection of weirdos and misfits is a peacefull religion

[roylene]

Ishmael was called 'the crazy man of the desert'. I don't think any thing has changed in 5000 years.

[isthisnickcool]

The Muslims whave been doing this kind of thing to the Russians in Chechnya for a long time.

[JasonC]

"What has impressed most people is the fact that the terrorists cut Mr. Berg's head in the way that sheep are beheaded"

Um, no. I can assure him, that particular fact escaped all our attentions and we could not care less. They killers were saying we have a right to kill too, as though killing is the bothersome bit. This writer seems to think it is the choice of anatomy lesson. Both cluelessly.

It is the unchivalrous murder of an unarmed man entirely in one's own power. Not killing, as may happen in battle. Not the manner, as may happen even by accident.

And we know perfectly well why they do it. It has nothing to do with messages or traditions, and everything to do with what makes their dicks get hard. Murder of the defenseless does.

We are not so naive as to think they do it for anything but their own pleasure. And we know what the maxim behind that pleasure is. We know the little sick trick of fallen nature that sparks it, the secession from the human race involved. "If only everyone else were dead, only my spawn would remain". We know this delusion.

And we know what to do about it. We see it, we kill.

[headsonpikes]

KA-CHUNK!!!!

[familyop]

"Well, to be fair...the British and French harvested their share of heads along the way. Remember William Wallace? Rmember the French Revolution?"

Yes, but did they slowly hack and saw through their screaming victims' necks with relatively small, ineffective instruments the way our enemy does in his penchant for human sacrifice?

[Hodapp]

So, all this throat slitting and head chopping. It's just a wacky cultural difference. Like capri pants and disco.

[Monty22]

Gene's an awesome guy on this subject, that's for sure.

[tsomer]

The more I learn about the French Revolution, the more revolting it seems. Of course there were the riots: the Bastille and the parading of heads around on pikes. The Guillotine was adopted during the terror because it was thought to be more humane. Scientific rationality triumphant: no pain, "like a breath of air" according to its inventor.

William Wallace? I don't know what to think. I saw the movie but know little else. He was a guerrilla, and terror was an indispensable to him, I would think. Nor was it unfamiliar to people back then. Hell, considering quaint practices like flaying,burning and draw and quartering, it was merciful.

Head hunting was a "Celtic thang" and both instances might have been residue of iron age culture. Old habits are hard to break. The Celts thought the soul resided in the head, which shows a little more sophistication than some other cultures of the time. But I think the real reason for the practice was documentary--indisputable proof of the boast.

Taking heads is no longer necessary; we have the Polaroid insta-matic.