+1, Just today on the drive home NPR had a story in which they interviewed a radical muslim cleric in England. He stated without equivocation that it took around four weeks to turn a person into a bomb.
Looking for the link now. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Birth? We've seen 'normal', well educated, middle class (and higher) > people turned into a crazy willing to die and that change didn't take > a lifetime. It can and has been done well within a year. > > A review of suicide bombers who hold to a specific extreme religious > ideology will show that the majority of them fit a social class higher > than most people on this list. And many of them did not hold that > extreme religious ideology for most of their lives. > > Bottom line is that people are easily swayed to do stupid things both > by others and by themselves. > > As for the backhand reference that Fox news is responsible for his > actions - why have we not seen hundreds of such events? Maybe it's not > Fox. Maybe he was just plain crazy. > > Or maybe he heard all the liberal news outlets talking about the honor > and sacrifice of "martyrs" and "freedom fighters" (terrorists > basically) that he felt that he should join up somehow. Of course, > this is just a serve back to the "it's Fox's fault". :) > > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The guy basically launched a Suicide attack against a federal building. >> >> Usually, in order to get someone to turn that crazy you have to >> brainwash them from birth that blowing themselves up and killing as >> many innocent people as possible is heroic and that they will be met >> by a thousand virgins - and that {Diety} likes it when you do that... >> >> Occasionally though, someone just has a screw loose and goes crazy all >> on their own. >> >> -Cameron >> >> ... >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312266 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
