Posted on 09/16/2001 2:17:12 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Uh, count me in on that.
Are you familiar with the concept of a 'normal distribution'? In any population, there are going to be lots of people around the mean, and fewer people as we move away from the mean. It's the standard "bell curve" that decribes how most characteristics are distributed within a population. When it comes to things like human psyches, no one has the slightest idea what causes somebody to be close to the mean, or far from it.
In any case, these guys are the outlyers on one side. On the other side you have Moslems who haven't faced Mecca in twenty years. When visiting South Carolina, they stop in at Piggie Park.
On the fundamentalist end, they won't let women out of their houses, they won't educate female children, they ban television and photographs, and they'll blow up centuries-old artifacts in the name of fighting idolatry.
There is a sufficiently large number of Moslems in the world that this small percentage of 'outlyers' still constitutes a population of several million. Many of these people are extremely ignorant. Several of the Mullahs who run the Taliban know the Koran by rote, but they can neither read nor write. It is possible that some of them do not even know that the world is round. They live in their own little Universe, a country of goat herders and opium growers. These are the people planning our destruction.
My mom is one of those. She's 88 years young. And mighty pissed off.
When I asked her this morning how this compared to Pearl Harbor, she quickly responded, "This is much worse".
In December, 1941, there was already a war going on and, according to her, most Americans knew that, sooner or later, we'd be in it. They just didn't know where, how and when it would happen. Consequently, September 11 came as much bigger shock than did December 7. Further, the Japanese attacked a military base, while the terrorists launched a wanton attack on innocent, defenseless civilians.
She summed up thusly, "We seem to have discovered a world full of cockroaches. And it falls to the United States to be the exterminator."
She also said that when the bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor, the "America Firsters" had the grace to shut up...and were never heard from again.
You ask questions as if you know the answers.
It's your turn. Go.
Why did they choose hate? Because, as you say, most Muslims are not this way.
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