Posted on 08/21/2006 9:40:23 AM PDT by redstates4ever
Yeah, if YOU are attacked for your beliefs, not if YOU do the attacking.
England should arrest this guy and deport him back to the hellhole he came from..and they should do it on TV...frog march him and make an example. This is just ridiculous.
Can you spell S-E-D-I-T-I-O-N?
I'm not speaking about their (muslim radical) interpretations of the phrase. I'm talking about the importance and relevance we should ascribe to these acts of murder.
The fact that they're killing themselves is a tactical reality. For certain targets, they can get in places with bombs strapped to themselves easier than bombing in other ways.
As for the Koran rejecting suicide, it seems vast numbers of Muslims have a different interpretation. Or they themselves don't consider these acts as "suicide", but dying heroically in jihad.
Yes, they do, but that interpretation only arose when Western ideas equally poisonous to those Mohammed provided the world were added to Islam by 20th century commentators (notably Sayyed Qutb) who had imbibed a fair dose of existentialism.
For now, any way to drive wedges into the 'ummah', to separate those Mohammedans who don't want to wage jihad from the minority who are enthusiastic about it, is useful, be it the 'religion of peace' rhetoric, or stressing the pecuiliarity of the bombers' tactic, their self-destruction.
"Homocide bomber" is redundant and serves no useful rhetorical purpose:
as I noted, bombers in general are intent on homocide, only those who have embraced the existentialist notion of self-destruction as proof of absolute commitment use their own person as a guidance-system for their bombs.
Reminding the world that these are not 'sheehads', but suicides, is a more useful tactic than the redundancy of announcing a 'homocide bomber killed 7 today' (when 'a suicide bomber killed 7 today' also communicates that homocide was committed.)
Uh, no. Homicide bomber is not redundant. Some bombers succeed (thankfully) in killing only themselves. They are bombers. But they've only killed themselves. A "bomber" may kill no one, or others, or themselves. So: homicide bomber is not redundant.
Now. I say let's concentrate on the "others" the bomber kills, not whether they kill themselves.
And your point about splitting off "reasonable" muslims by use of the term "suicide bomber"? Keep dreaming While moderate muslims dance in the streets over 9-11. While hot-selling beheading videos make the rounds. While British Imams like the ones in the article advocate these despicable acts as a noble "martydom".
No. They're gonna stop any minute, as soon as they realize they're--Koran fobid--SUICIDE bombers.
WELL WHO GIVES A DAMN WHETHER THEY DIE! They're killing OTHERS. And that, my friend, is the sticking point with me.
"Maybe they can take shelter in their empty churches."
Yep, you got it, plain and simple. Listening Brits? What you turned your back on will come back to bite your a%&.
Of course he thinks this, he is a Muslim. When will we stop pretending they don't all think this way?
Mohammed took a lot of teachings of various faiths of the time and glommed them onto his own peculiar worldview and hubris. He seems to have taken the WORST of all of them, put his own particular twisted spin on them, then his followers used the barbarian hordes to spread them far and wide at the point of a sword.
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