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2007-06-23 Afghanistan

Guardian Reports Taliban Using Children as Suicide Bombers

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Posted by Glenmore 2007-06-23 13:51|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 shouldn't the "Surprise Meter" be shown??

There is absolutely NOTHING, no matter how cowardly or despicable, the Jihadis can ever do that would surprise me.

And the fact that the Left doesn't give a damn doesn't surprise me either!

Posted by Justrand 2007-06-23 14:01|| 2007-06-23 14:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Any decent human being in the realm of Islam ought to see by now what the jihadis are about: Stan's Orcs. Although their (decent humans) ability to discern may have been skewered by the Islam's ideology, it is still present.

As for Left, the moral and cultural relativism may have done ireparrable damage and the discernmet ability seems to be largely missing, or framed in such a way that the moral compass is a 90 deg mirror image--totally at odds with reality.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-06-23 15:21|| 2007-06-23 15:21|| Front Page Top

#3 "Taliban Using Children as Suicide Bombers"

In other news, water is wet. >:-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-06-23 15:26|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-06-23 15:26|| Front Page Top

#4 In the past we have not seen the Taliban sink that low, to use children as suicide bombers.

Hahaha! Very diplomatically put. The ba$tards just probably haven't figured out how to do this reliably yet. Next step: Remotely detonate these bombs on unwitting children. Or maybe pack a cat full of C4 and send it off towards a checkpoint, but that can get pretty dicey. Better use a dog perhaps.

Posted by gorb 2007-06-23 16:22|| 2007-06-23 16:22|| Front Page Top

#5 When Islam has finally forced Western nations to reduce the entire MME (Muslim Middle East) to smoking ruins, people will recall how six year-old children were sent out with bomb vests and feel a sense of solid affirmation instead of any guilt. Watch the "Obsession" video and see Palestinian kindergarteners clamoring to become martyrs in pursuit of murdering Jews. It is enough to remove all doubt for some of us.

ISLAM DEVOURS ITS YOUNG.

There can be no stronger proof that an entire culture's collective moral compass is demagnetized. Whether it is six year-olds wearing bomb vests, specifically targeting children in terrorist attacks, infants abandoned to die in a car bomb detonation or the use of children as human shields, all of these are rapacious acts that should be met with universal condemnation. The Muslim community's continued and deafening silence over such wholesale neglect for the value or sanctity of human lifeespecially that of the very youngis one of many things helping to ensure that, if and when their collective annihilation should come about, no one shall grieve the loss.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-23 16:24|| 2007-06-23 16:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Zen,
There are those who would say the West devours its young too. They just do it VERY young (negative nine months to zero). A little 'cultural relativism' that may explain the general lack of expression of disgust by many of the Western elite at these Muslim atrocities.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-23 17:02|| 2007-06-23 17:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Glen no wonder the MSM isn't covering this.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-06-23 19:29|| 2007-06-23 19:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't cha think that by now a Geneva Convention would have conviened to clearly define the rules of war for even cavemen to follow ?
The total silence in this matter indicates that either they don't know what the hell's going on, or they feel so insignificant that they will not bother with the effort. Political correctness just doesn't cover complete ignorance.

Posted by wxjames 2007-06-23 19:39|| 2007-06-23 19:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Hmm... and yet not one word of the Geneva Convention.

1) Take Pictures and Videos. Show them at every press briefings and refer to them often. Sooner or later the media will get the hint and stop ignoring stories like this.

2) Take no illegal combatants prisoner. If you find a combatant out of uniform or hiding in the civilian pop - take them out and shoot them. Do it in public and announce that you find them as illegal combatants according to the GC and subject to summarily execution.

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-06-23 19:44|| 2007-06-23 19:44|| Front Page Top

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