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To: captain11
Sounds very much like the militarists in World War II Japan calling on their nation to be martyrs (to keep their sorry asses in power). The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Museum had an exhibit of this virile propoganda when we visited last year so the children and grandchildren of Japan never forget what brought about the great calamity of atomic destruction, and quite possibly prevented the greater calamity of national destruction.

If this poisonous hate is to be flushed from the children of Islamic countires, I fear the same steps of changing the national psyche will have to take place.

If the Israeli Defense Force should raid this henious celebrations and pull down the walls of the schools which preach such vile hatred, it would onlyy be a good start.

6 posted on 10/12/2001 11:55:17 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
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To: Vigilanteman
Some surface similarities.

However, from my experience with the Japanese and my limited exposure to the WWII aspect . . . I think there are some significant differences.

The Japanese must have had a kind of elegant, chilvarous, dying for Emporer-god, country and family--a rather sobered, honor-bound, sterile, fate sort of single mindedness. . . . quite possibly some demonic influence but not the overt coarse kind, a more subtle slick kind.

With the Islamists, it's interesting--they more resemble the worst of the animal they deplore--kind of a cross bewteen a rabid b*tch dog and a wild boar. . . mayhem incorporated. . . blind, viscious, gory, drunken hillbilly ruthlessness. . . . a kind of idiot's IQ of 20's glib gah gah fixation on images of umpteen virgins and unlimited sex; dramatic blood, dismemberment, gore and anguish on the part of one's obsessively reviled enemies etc.

The Japanese could have respect for their enemies even at the point of killing them.

The Islamists seem to respect nothing but their own mindless fantasies and the pseudo phallis glory of their sticks of dynamite etc.

I suppose if the biggest thrill you've been able to look forward to is a wet dream in your sleep, going out with a big bang could have some real attraction.

Their book is a messy hodge podge. Their reasoning hardly qualifies for rational. Their tribal infighting has historically been the height of messy. Their values are messy. Not too surprising that they fixate on messy dying. Their father is the father of lies and chaos.

10 posted on 10/13/2001 1:16:32 AM PDT by Quix
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