Posted on 10/12/2001 10:56:03 PM PDT by ppaul
Forgive me for sounding "touchy feely" for a moment. Consider this... Osama bin Laden was one of 53 children, the son of a polygamist.
How much could he have been loved by his father?
The link between dysfunctional father/son relationships and criminal, sociopathic behavior, is well documented. We're seeing now some of the bitter fruit harvested from a culture sewn with the seeds of polygamy and misogyny.
In what other culture are young men seduced by the demonic promise of eternal carnality with 72 virgins, or even young boys, in the afterlife?
In what other culture do adults raise their children to be suicidal bomb-fodder. Or send them out as bait, to hurl stones at soldiers in the hope of drawing return fire, and hence the sympathy of Western News audiences?
What other culture suckles such an evil, cold-blooded brood?
What other culture disdains its children so?
Only Islam.
The girls will square 'em away!
Regards,
I think he's just accepting that some Muslims are not following their Koran completely and are good people who can live with infidels without killing them. I don't think anyone can really look at whats going on in Indonesia, the Sudan, Nigeria, India, Israel, and now the USA and believe the religion itself is very beautiful. You could probably do some heavy editing of the Koran and make it a much thinner but nice enough book.
The illusory nature of the maya is not some hypothetical figment of someone's imagination. It is true.
The maya is an illusion, but, paradoxically, it is also reality. And we must function in it.
In fact, we can and do function of many different levels of reality at the same time, all of the time. And these levels are not isolated, one from another; they flow together, more like spectra.
On one level everything is paradoxical.
On one level, it's all a matter of probabilities.
I'll bet my eternal soul that these screwed-up guys are consumed by evil and will find no reward for their actions. In fact that bit about paradise and 72 virgins is a bad joke on them.
We will all face the judgment of God. That day will come. In fact, paradoxically, that day will come, and that day is already here. (Time is an illusion also. But don't throw away your watch; this is another paradox.)
As a Christian, I know that these terrorists are infidels who are guilty of terrible sin.
As a member of the human race, I know that they are disgusting, reprehensible, screwed-up loosers and that the world will be a better place when they are all dead. There is no excuse for their actions. They must be hunted down and killed or rendered powerless. And civilized people the world over must never forget the importance of eternal vigilance.
If the misogyny is the reason for the "covering" of women, why should we respect that "covering?" Bush was probably making an effort to communicate with American Muslims sympathetically but theres an essential dishonesty to view it as just another kind of tradition if it is in reality the root of this evil.
Then we are really into a religious war, which would rub Americans the wrong way. How else can it be described though?
"Women are a form of life between humanity and beasts.They are not fully human, as are men. They come closest to attaining human status in two situations : When they are pregnant with a male fetus, and when they are on their backs, with a portion of the male anatomy within their body."
I am not making up this quote to justify my hatred of Islam. It was reading that which led to my hatred of this religion. Neither Christianity nor Judaism comes close to Islam in the misogyny stakes. Even St Jerome and those who think like him never denied that women are human and possessed of an immortal soul (the belief that the Catholic church came within one vote of ruling women soulless at some synod is a canard or 'medieval urban legend'.)
I agree. The challenge is to promote the good in the Muslim faith and isolate the extremism. That the violence, murder and selfish carnality is found in the very center of their faith seems hard to deny. That makes the term "moderate Arab" seem like a synonym for "compromising Arab". This is a very tricky one and Bush has done well as a politician.
Where does this guy get off thinking he can dictate what happens to his body after the WTC war crime? If he hates pigs and women so much why don't we arrage for both of them to come to his grave and funeral in force? It just may prevent others from following in his infidel footsteps.
I would make the choices eithor "stupid" or "manipulative"
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