actly right Mag and they did not do it for any religious reason.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [LU] NON LU - 2K Terrorists > Exactly right, Richard. > > One minor point, though:? the Japanese "suicide bombers" -- the > Kamikazes -- were not terrorists.? Importantly, they crashed their planes > into exclusively military targets.? > > MAG > > > > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 19:47:52 -0000 > From: "Richard Naef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LU] NON LU - 2K Terrorists > To: "'LUList'" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > > <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAwoCgTdzq30Cn0/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I was at a footie match yesterday so missed the hoo-hah, here is my 2p > worth. > > Remember Japanese invented suicide bombing and they are Shinto Buddhists, > it > was reborn in the last few decades by Hindus in Sri Lanka. The massacre of > a > million innocents in Rwanda was in part led by priests and their ranting > from the pulpits. The Lords Resistance Army in Uganda spouts a > bastardised > Christian/local theology while massacring Children. Judaism, Christianity > and Islam all come from the same roots, the problem isn't with the > particular flavour, but what people will do when they stop thinking for > themselves. > > There is no belief system in the history of the world that hasn't > descended > at some stage to murder to support and justify its beliefs. > > >> Fundamental Muslims want to rule the earth. Their stated aim >> is for the whole planet to conform to that religion and >> anyone who doesnt conform is the enemy and should/could be killed. > > That's a sweeping statement Mark one of many you have made. Islam takes > many > forms and some "fundamentalists" ie people who people the word or the > Koran > - as they read it - take a very different view and inform me that it is > all > about Peace. > > There is a strand of islam - politically motivated by what they see as the > injustices meted out by the West upon their people - which favour extreme > violence. > > Using your generalisations one could say that the US wants everyone in the > world to live in a capitalistic democracy (translation: Protect Oil > Supplies) and are willing to kill to achieve this. I don't think many > Americans do, but I am pretty sure some neocons do. > > The world is really very complicated - what about the pilot of an F-18 or > BlackHawk pressing a button to fire high explosive rockets at a compound 3 > miles away. he has no idea how many women of children are in there, but > he > considers them casualties of war. To the poor bastard who gets blown up > it > matters not a jot. > > If we as members of a democracy send soldiers out to an aggressive foreign > war, remember neither Iraq or Afghanistan attacked the UK, why should we > be > surprised if they attack us back, surely we are partly culpable, That's > Democracy. > > ttfn > > Richard > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - > http://mail.aol.com > _______________________________________________ > the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators > accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. > Leedslist mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > 6 in a bloody row! _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist 6 in a bloody row!
