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Christopher Hitchens: Don't Mince Words - The London car-bomb plot was designed to kill women.
slate.com ^ | July 2, 2007 | Christopher Hitchens

Posted on 07/02/2007 3:11:58 PM PDT by neverdem

Why on earth do people keep saying, "There but for the grace of God …"? If matters had been very slightly different over the past weekend, the streets of London and the airport check-in area in Glasgow, Scotland, would have been strewn with charred body parts. And this would have been, according to the would-be perpetrators, because of the grace of God. Whatever our own private theology or theodicy, we might at least agree to take this vile belief seriously.

Instead, almost every other conceivable explanation was canvassed. The June 30 New York Times report managed to quote three people, one of whom attributed the aborted atrocity in London to Tony Blair's foreign policy; one of whom (a New Zealand diplomat, at that) felt "surprisingly all right about it"; and one of whom, described as "a Briton of Indian descent," was worried that "if I walk up that road, they're going to suspect me." The "they" there was clearly the British authorities, rather than the Muslim gangsters who have declared open season on all Hindus as well as all Jews, Christians, secularists, and other kuffar or infidel filth.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: christopherhitchens; globaljihad; haymarketcarbombs; islam; jihadineurope; targets
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1 posted on 07/02/2007 3:12:01 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Hitchens bump


2 posted on 07/02/2007 3:13:13 PM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance......Keep your powder dry)
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To: B.O. Plenty

Squash Rage Boy like the bug he is.


3 posted on 07/02/2007 3:15:21 PM PDT by sono ("Let's start the Fairness Doctrine with NPR." Dennis Miller)
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To: neverdem
>Christopher Hitchens: Don't Mince Words - The London car-bomb plot was designed to kill women

Do not worry, Chris!
Atheists will take up arms
and save the planet!

4 posted on 07/02/2007 3:15:54 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: neverdem

The “would be” perps do not believe in my God or the referenced God, therefore the statement of By the Grace of God is correct.


5 posted on 07/02/2007 3:17:05 PM PDT by Bruinator
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To: theFIRMbss

nice, dude.


6 posted on 07/02/2007 3:17:22 PM PDT by warpsmith
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To: theFIRMbss

nice, dude.


7 posted on 07/02/2007 3:17:31 PM PDT by warpsmith
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To: warpsmith; theFIRMbss
nice, dude.

You have to put that in a format theFIRMbss will understand.

Dude! nice, dude. nice dude.
Nice, nice, nice, nice, Dude. Dude: Nice!
Dude. Duuuuude. Nice nice nice!

8 posted on 07/02/2007 3:21:52 PM PDT by Lazamataz (JOIN THE NRA: https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp)
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To: neverdem
Although Hitchens rightly identifies our Islamic enemies, and delineates their strategies and motives, his pathological and obsessive hatred of Christianity and religion in general disqualifies him as a serious thinker.

He needs to go on the wagon and get some serious meds, in that order.

9 posted on 07/02/2007 3:22:23 PM PDT by Deo volente
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>You have to put that in a format theFIRMbss will understand...


  "good"

      "bad"

10 posted on 07/02/2007 3:30:09 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: neverdem

This guy is such an attention-seeking ass.


11 posted on 07/02/2007 3:34:31 PM PDT by NapkinUser ("The House will pass S1348 and the president will sign it into law. It's a done deal." -B. Chezwick)
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To: warpsmith

It’s long past time for the West to ban immigration and “refugees” from predominantly Muslim countries, to deport immigrants from those countries who are not citizens or here on valid visas (and to deny visa extenstions to those who are here on visas) and to identify adequate additional sources of energy that we will no longer fund radical Isalm. How many more Americans, Britons, Spaniards, and Dutch have to die before we isolate the cancer that is radical Islam?


12 posted on 07/02/2007 3:35:08 PM PDT by p. henry
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To: Lazamataz

Word up, yo!


13 posted on 07/02/2007 3:40:12 PM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (The GOP is "Whig"ing out.)
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To: neverdem

Women and minorities hardest hit.


14 posted on 07/02/2007 3:45:25 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Deo volente

Or a big diaper! I guess he never saw the hit play “Your Arms are too short to box with God”! Vitriol and Venom are his companions now....sad


15 posted on 07/02/2007 3:50:14 PM PDT by tajgirvan (Luke 9: 48)
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To: theFIRMbss
>Christopher Hitchens: Don't Mince Words - The London car-bomb plot was designed to kill women

Do not worry, Chris! Atheists will take up arms and save the planet!

Do you have any suggestions on who else may be qualified? (Believers in religion are disqualified)

16 posted on 07/02/2007 3:57:17 PM PDT by balls (Religion is the root of all evil)
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To: balls; theFIRMbss
Do you have any suggestions on who else may be qualified? (Believers in religion are disqualified)

So far, looks like it's just the two of ya.

Better eat yer Wheaties.

17 posted on 07/02/2007 4:15:39 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
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To: HKMk23
Better eat yer Wheaties.

I don't understand. Please explain.

18 posted on 07/02/2007 4:18:10 PM PDT by balls (Religion is the root of all evil)
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To: balls

Begin here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheaties

Perhaps, afterward, the inferred linkage between substantive exploits and “Wheaties” will be more apparent.


19 posted on 07/02/2007 4:59:43 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
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To: theFIRMbss

Atheist veteran checking in, boss. Ready to save the planet, if they’d take me.


20 posted on 07/02/2007 5:16:27 PM PDT by gcruse
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