Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:09:04 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010913090507.058a9a20@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010913102807.A369@jake.akitanet.co.uk> References: <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com>
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At 03:28 AM 9/13/2001, Paul Robinson wrote: >I think his point is that perhaps America should sit down and think about her >actions, and WHY this happened. These guys had a reason for doing what they >did, and I'm suprised nobody, anywhere, seems to want to discuss what that >might have been. They had a MOTIVATION, yes. But I don't think there was much "reason" involved. Before we attack Islam specificially, though, we must remember that there's another precedent for this sort of religiously motivated attack: the Crusades. (As you may recall, the Catholic Church offered participants in this "holy war" a free ticket to haven.) The "jihaad meme" is dangerous regardless of which religion uses it -- precisely BECAUSE it motivates people to hate others and attack them irrationally. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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