El Al employee, religious Jew killed in LA airport shooting

Ha'aretz ^ | July 5 2002 | Benny Landau

[KantianBurke]

She's so beautiful. Such a shame that her life ended due to blind hatred. But Bush says Islam is a religion of peace so we should just shut up and not draw obvious conclusions no?

[Slyfox]

I heard earlier that Ya'akov's wife is pregnant with their sixth child.

[harrowup]

... Bush says Islam is a religion of peace so we should just shut up and not draw obvious conclusions no?

Would you mind giving a link to this startling information?

Take your time.

[germanicus]

Sad,sad,sad. I have a daughter her age and just can't imagine. These cowards go out of their way to target innocent women and children. And what's even more sad is that Arab and Islamic groups in this country probably won't condemn this attack and in private will celebrate the killings. Losers. All of them.

[Red Jones]

bump

[KantianBurke]

Are you kidding? If a link is what you want, try C-SPAN and look for Bush's first State of the Union address. Heck why stop there? Whenever he's asked on the subject he goes out of his way to delinate the idea that Islam is a "good and peaceful religion."

[NativeNewYorker]

We may not be profiling THEM.

But they sure as hell are profiling US.

[KantianBurke]

http://www.c-span.org/executive/stateofunion/sou02_trans.asp

"Let the skeptics look to Islam's own rich history, with its centuries of learning, and tolerance and progress." - President George W. Bush, January 29th, 2002 - State of the Union Speech

You were saying?

[Blennos]

We in the West are going to have to relearn the utility of good, honest hatred of an enemy. We cannot long afford the folly of tolerating, even esteeming people who wish us the gravest harm.

[monkeyshine]

Veronica! Where've you been? Vacationing in the south of France?

[mickie]

What a crying shame. I was just wondering who the two people killed were.......have not heard anything about them today.

God rest their souls.

[valkyrieanne]

I heard earlier that Ya'akov's wife is pregnant with their sixth child.

I thought it was his ninth.

[harrowup]

How does one crazy Egyptian killer make Islam guilty?

Ever read about Moses and his little scuffle on the way to the promised land? Ever hear of the Crusades? The Spanish Inquisition? The Roundheads? The good people of Salem? Waco?

President Bush was simply trying to calm down irrational people such as yourself and the rest of the JDL.

If you want to take a shot at the Moslems, whack their secular leadership after you kick the mullahs. While you are at that, someone else will be smacking the hell out of some religious jew.

[Diogenesis]

Are you saying this was an isolated incident?

[constitutiongirl]

One crazy Egyptian?? Where have you been for the last 20 years. Perhaps some time spent in Egypt or Jordan or Lebanon will relieve your doubts as to the nature of pure jihadi Islam. Do you ever take the time to read Mid-East state newspapers? Take a short six month study and then figure out how much they really hate you.

[KantianBurke]

"How does one crazy Egyptian killer make Islam guilty?"

One doesn't. But he follows a long line of sick killers who were spawned out of faith in Islam.

As for your other points I'll readily concede that Christianity did some brutual things during its two thousand year tenure provided YOU'LL admit that Islam, unlike other monotheistic religions, has bred backward, cruel and psychotic civilizations to say nothing of coming anywhere close to Western levels of the rule of law, protection of rights and capitalism.

Hence why Bush is wrong when he says Islam is "good."

[veronica]

Veronica! Where've you been? Vacationing in the south of France?

Working and stuff. Thanks for asking. :)

[harrowup]

...Islam, unlike other monotheistic religions, has bred backward, cruel and psychotic civilizations to say nothing of coming anywhere close to Western levels of the rule of law, protection of rights and capitalism.

Sorry, no quid pro quo. Different cultures have a terrible attraction to difference. I think Pol Pot was raised a Buddhist? Should that culture suffer because he was a monster?

You simply cannot link every killing of a Jew as a hate crime or terrorism...even if they are. Most of the Jews killed in Brooklyn just happen to be on the wrong side of the Mafia. Let's wait for the investigation and see what the trouble was. Do we even know whether the limo driver was Muslim? Could have been a Coptic. Hell's bells, he could have been a Baptist.

By the way, Arabic art and culture are quite stunning...start out in Turkey and work your way to Mecca.

[harrowup]

Cripes. You have the matches and the kindling? Get a grip. There are many terrorist organizations which have developed in the fertile crescent...and they ain't all linked...and they ain't all Muslims or arabs.