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2014-12-17 India-Pakistan

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top
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#1 Even considering how senseless most of the fanatical Islamic violence is, this is the most puzzling.

Why on earth attack a school and kill all of the kids, in direct conflict with the Quran (the document the Taliban are so proud to be so pious in observing) regarding the killing of innocents.

Any pronouncements from the psychopaths as to the breathtakingly irrational motive for this?

Posted by Mystic 2014-12-17 00:28|| 2014-12-17 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Remember Marlon Brando's story to Martin Sheen about inoculating Vietnamese children?

Same base premise but in the real world.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-12-17 04:20|| 2014-12-17 04:20|| Front Page Top

#3 What

Posted by badanov 2014-12-17 06:49|| 2014-12-17 06:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Mystic -- the unholy Koran defines "innocent" as "anyone 100% in agreement with all the bloodthirsty Muslims". Any deviation -- having the wrong parents, in this case -- is grounds for slaughter.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-12-17 06:51|| 2014-12-17 06:51|| Front Page Top

#5 The army attacked the hard boys so the hard boys attacked the "logistics" train for the army, kill the "recruits" early.

Easier to drown the kittens than hunt down the cats.

Posted by AlanC 2014-12-17 07:37|| 2014-12-17 07:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Those taliban village wells make a mighty easy target for the "total war" escalation the taliban just requested.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-12-17 07:51|| 2014-12-17 07:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Mystic. There are some haddiths (sayings attributed to Muhammad) telling children must not be killed but Coran itself is silent about that subject.

Muhammmad's biography shows him sparing children but taking them as slaves and the scene where Muslims disrobe male children in order to check if they have grown pubic hair (those that have are killed) points to some unpleasant things happening after.

Anyway basic precept in Muslim sacred texts is that everything banned can be declmared lawful if it benefits Islam or Muhammad. There are dozens of examples of something desired by Muhammad or futhering the cause of Islam (violating truces, marrying six year old girls, murdering a pregnant woman or a brother) that were supposed to be forbidden and suddenly Allah sends dream (no witnesses) to Muhammad allowing it.

More than a thousand years later a German politician (guess which one) told: "Right is what benefits the German nation, wrong is what harms it". About the same general idea.

Posted by JFM 2014-12-17 08:25|| 2014-12-17 08:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Remember: Hillary says we should empathize with the Taliban (as one of our enemies)

Posted by Frank G 2014-12-17 08:54|| 2014-12-17 08:54|| Front Page Top

#9 If only the Israelis would stop oppressing paleos, this would stop happening yesterday.

Posted by Shipman 2014-12-17 09:57|| 2014-12-17 09:57|| Front Page Top

#10 ...a German politician (guess which one) told: "Right is what benefits the German nation, wrong is what harms it".

Helmut Kohl?

Posted by Raj 2014-12-17 10:43|| 2014-12-17 10:43|| Front Page Top

#11 @Raj: Cold, cold. Try a few decades earlier.

Posted by JFM 2014-12-17 11:21|| 2014-12-17 11:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Bismarck, I think.

Posted by tu3031 2014-12-17 11:59|| 2014-12-17 11:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Founded by a psychopath, this is NOT a religion. It is a nasty political movement.

All 3 billion of thee are Godless blasphemers.

Posted by newc 2014-12-17 13:22|| 2014-12-17 13:22|| Front Page Top

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