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To: Chu Gary

True, but he kind of stops short of asking whether Islam itself is inherently death-oriented.


45 posted on 06/04/2004 5:34:02 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news.)
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To: LS
He stops short of understanding suicidal homocide in general. It is made possible and encouraged by one simple concept: an afterlife reward for the deed.

Islam is not "in love with death". That's silliness, a turn of phrase crafted by someone who cannot concieve that some religionists actually believe what they say they believe -- that the deity approves of killing unbelievers and will give them in a next life nicer things than they have now, if they do it.

Given that premise, it is not a "love of death" which motivates them; it is a love of whatever they believe they get, i.e. the approval of Allah and 72 virgins. So it is both a rational and religious process starting from an erroneous premise.

That makes it more powerful than any other argument, for those who accept the premise.

You must either kill the would-be "martyr" or kill the premise. Or, like in Israel, build a wall. Nothing else works.

55 posted on 06/04/2004 7:19:28 AM PDT by Taliesan (fiction police)
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