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2004-02-07 Terror Networks

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2004-02-07 00:04|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 For hundreds of years the Moslems have assuaged their feelings of inferiority by brutalizing their girls and women and by brutalizing their religious minorities. Why, now, isn't that enough? Why do they have to travel abroad to modern countries and try to brutalize us here too? Leave us alone already!

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-2-7 12:31:17 AM|| 2004-2-7 12:31:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 hold fast to the best of our principles and values by emphasizing tolerance, empathy and courage.
...even if that emphasis must come through the barrel of a squad automatic weapon.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-2-7 12:39:38 AM|| 2004-2-7 12:39:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 They can't, Mike. They're still inferior. If they can just brutalize enough people, they think they'll feel superior.

The jihadis give a whole new meaning to the phrase "a legend in their own minds."

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-2-7 12:41:06 AM|| 2004-2-7 12:41:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 A hammer blow Fred. Very cool!

Posted by NotLuckyLucky 2004-2-7 1:25:04 AM|| 2004-2-7 1:25:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps the most evil aspect of religious terrorism is that it aims to destroy moral distinctions themselves. Its goal is to confuse not only its sympathizers, but also those who seek to fight it.

I think this reveals the author's real issue with terrorism. Not that it kills and maims people. Not that it threatens the fabric of our society. But that it makes the Left's 'balanced' moral equivalence hard to maintain. To right!, its causing confusion on the Left, but not here at Rantburg, where it causes clarity of thought.

Posted by phil_b 2004-2-7 2:35:48 AM|| 2004-2-7 2:35:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 amen- phil.

It's nothing new really, now is it? They crave power and the respect that comes with it, but they haven't got what it takes to get it NOW! within the existing power structure. So they pick up a gun, point it at someone and feel the powerful immediately.

Posted by B 2004-2-7 5:14:34 AM|| 2004-2-7 5:14:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Okay... are we talking about a Jihad Jones?

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-7 11:11:30 AM|| 2004-2-7 11:11:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I think the rise of Izzoid militancy is simple: they now have the money, solely due to oil, and the means, due to ease of travel and acquisition of weapons tech, and the fact that they control some "states" which afford them numerous logistical advantages to leverage the others to max effect.

The insanity has always been there, from Day One -- just read the Haddiths.

This is simply the time nexus where it all comes together to make their Global Domination Dreams look possible to the Islamists.

Had there been a truly moderate form of Islam, given the vast access to communications resources with which they could've thoroughly denounced, actively worked to deny funding, and totally ostracized the jihadis via fatwas or whatever, then there would be reason to dismiss this as an aberration. Such is not the case, late comers and their lame half-hearted commentaries / apologies notwithstanding. Those not actively engaged are not actually moderate, for they give passive support by their silence -- and the other forms of support when confronted or demanded by the jihadis.

Effectively, and we must always keep this in mind when dealing with them or reading what they write or evalutaing their actions and inactions: they are Muslims above all else. Thus, they will all share the same fate.

Posted by .com 2004-2-7 12:08:55 PM|| 2004-2-7 12:08:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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