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nightowl
Barsoom
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03/02/2008 : 09:07:11
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I don't know how it was determined that two mentally disabled women carried out this particular suicide bombing. However if they have indeed used individuals who do not have the capacity to determine their own willingness to sacrifice themselves on the altar of so called martyrdom then it is indeed doubly despicable. It is sheer murder! It is also extremely anti-Islamic as Islam charges them to protect the weak and the vulnerable. Both on the count of mental disability and the fact that they are women should have safeguarded those women from being used in such a fashion.
On the other hand, if this is a beginning of what will be a trend it could also signify that it is getting more difficult to find people that are willing to 'self-sacrifice' themselves in this fashion.
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
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Posted - 03/02/2008 : 22:04:12
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| Maybe they are saving the deeply convinced nutters for the non kamikaze attacks and using those they see as expendable for this sort of attack? Evil it certainly is ! |
Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski! |
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Anubis
Barsoom
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 Posted - 03/02/2008 : 22:21:03
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Originally posted by nightowl
I find this the most abhorrent act so far in Iraq, what else is there left to commit on the vulnerable population in the name of god and the cause!.............
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7223769.stm
Bombs of that intensity .... and yet, immediately, the media story is they were "disabled" women. Was there anything left of them?
Not saying the claim isn't true -- I don't know -- but if I wanted to denigrate the attack, politically, that's what I'd say. After all, if a rational person is prepared to die for a cause, it's a rallying call for those impressed by such "self-sacrifice" ..... My GUESS is the 'mental disablement' claim is just government propaganda, to negate any thought of genuine martyrdom .... |
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gcrkfrd
Barsoom
USA
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Posted - 03/02/2008 : 23:22:39
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| Anyone, that would place, or cause to be placed, an explosive device, is suffering from a mental defect, anyway. |
AMERICAN BY BIRTH, UNION BY CHOICE |
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
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Posted - 04/02/2008 : 00:50:58
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| Fair point, gcrk! |
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Evil acts......