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| Commentary: "self-determination doesn’t require mass murder" | |||
| 2003-02-27 | |||
| From the Duke University Chronicle. The author is a former fellow in the Duke School of Medicine now on the faculty at the Medical College of Georgia, and seems to be a Palestinian from the tone of the article. Edited for length. Self-determination? by Bala Ambati History demonstrates that self-determination doesn't require mass murder. Desire to destroy others by one's own destruction is fueled by craven clerics selling murder for sex by peddling depraved fantasies of 72 celestial virgins for "martyrdom." And we're just getting started! Modern suicide bombing is bereft of honor: even kamikazes attacked targets that could shoot back, unlike today's suicide-bombers who hurl themselves at buses, towers, discos and restaurants. He's right. Calling suicide bombers "Islamokazes" is an insult to the memory of the kamikaze pilots. Squeaky wheels don't deserve grease, especially when suffering that seduces is needless or self-inflicted. Why are groups employing suicide bombing deserving of sympathy or intervention? Why are Palestinians more worthy than Kurds, Iraqi Shi'ites, Tibetans or southern Sudanese? . . . The inhuman brutality of Muslim to fellow Muslim — 800,000 Pakistanis killed by Pakistan in 8 months in 1971, 20,000 Syrians killed in a week by Syria in 1982, 1.5 million Afghans killed by the Taliban in 5 years, 200,000 Iraqis killed by Saddam in 1988, 5,000 Palestinians killed by Jordan in one month in 1970, 300,000 Palestinians ethnically cleansed by Kuwait in 1991 — dwarfs anything done by Israel, where 3,000 Palestinians were killed in eight years of intifada, or the U.S. Those blaming Israel and America forget this, revealing their indignation as hollow.
Amen to that! I suspect a lot of people's sympathies evaporated when they saw the video and still photos of Palestinians celebrating 9/11. There's something deeply messed up about a society which cheers mass murder. Ultimately, moral judgment must be rendered on suicide bombing and Islamic fundamentalism by Muslims themselves. . . . It is incumbent upon Muslims to defrock imams sanctioning mass murder. Ideals that Muslims proclaim are belied by revolting realities practiced in their name--love dies where hatred is preached, freedom wilts under despotism, learning is unattainable when free scholarship is banned, tolerance flees where dissent earns death, equality is a sham when women and minorities are enslaved, justice is mocked by shari'a with a travestic set of rules for believers and another for women and "disbelievers" and peace is a veiled fraud when the peace of the grave is pursued by killers with Hitler's enthusiasm. If the Palestinians want to join the civilized world, they need more Palestinians like this guy, brave enough to challenge the "craven clerics selling murder for sex" and their willing accomplices in the West.
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| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 He's not Palestinian. He is from India. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-02-27 18:24:33 |
| #3 oops. Links: http://www.hindunet.org/alt_hindu/1995_May_2/msg00071.html http://www.factsofisrael.com/load.php?p=http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000475.html |
| Posted by: therien 2003-02-27 17:36:20 |
| #2 Yes, we definitely need more Palestinians (hate that word) like him, but only because he actually seems to be Indian. I think these links describe him: |
| Posted by: therien 2003-02-27 17:34:48 |
| #1 You know, it's very possible those 72 virgins are still virgins because they're butt-ugly. But if that's your idea of paradise we're more than happy to help you get there! |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-02-27 12:49:50 |