To: gobucks
I think this has about 10% of the truth. There's a big difference between suicide and suicide/murder.
It's commonplace to say that part of the problem is that the Arabs have no hope. They blame their problems on others and refuse to take responsibility for themselves.
But it wouldn't be working out the way it is, if not for a confluence of other things. One is western totalitarian ideologies: Fascism and Communism. Arab nationalism has a strong element of both these vicious ideologies. A second, of course, is Islam. Islam has a streak of cruelty, it has a strong insistence that people have no free wills, and it encourages people to kill for Allah.
3 posted on
02/05/2004 6:09:58 AM PST by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
"...{Islam} has a strong insistence that people have no free wills".
Reminds me of the fundamental precepts of the social gospel crowd.
Your remark about 'hope' struck me. Hope as 'motivation' .... well, time to chew on that cud for a bit. Thanks.
8 posted on
02/05/2004 8:21:59 AM PST by
gobucks
(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/laocoon)
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