On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:59:43 -0000, E.R.N. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John Forbes wrote:
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:41:10 -0000, E.R.N. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
John Forbes wrote:
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:58:24 -0000, E.R.N. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I only know of one religion whose followers behave like that.
I think I know a lot of the followers of said religion who wouldn't
do it either, but there's an overwhelmingly large number of them
that do.
Are you saying that an "overwhelmingly large number" of people
(presumably you mean Moslems) are prepared to blow themselves up?
If that is what you meant, would you like an opportunity to rethink
that statement? Because it is clearly nonsensical.
Just how is it nonsensical to say that a lot of Moslems have blown
themselves up on purpose?
You didn't say "a lot"; you said "an overwhelmingly large number".
Even "a lot" is arguable, given the number of Moslems in the world,
but "an overwhelmingly large number" is nonsensical. In fact, absurd.
I know what I said the first time.
I decided to say it a different way the second time since you apparently
didn't understand it the first time.
Seems you still don't. I said nothing about the number relative to how
many Moslems there are, either time.
But here's another way to look at "relative" numbers -- there are still
more people in the world who aren't Moslem than people who are, and yet
the suicide-bombers (i.e., people blowing themselves up on purpose in
order to kill other people in the process) are just about all of them
Moslem.
I didn't understand you because what you said was not what you meant. It
seems you meant (I'm having to guess because even on your third try you're
not clear) that the overwhelming majority of those who are prepared to
blow themselves up are Moslem.
That might be true presently, but I would ask you to ask yourself how many
countries in the world today are illegally occupied by a belligerent and
brutish foreign power with a different religion. There is Afghanistan,
occupied by Americans who are busy torturing captives in defiance of the
Geneva Convention in Guantanamo Bay; Iraq, ditto; Palestine, occupied by
crazed Israelis in defiance of UN resolutions (with the support of
America); and Tibet, occupied by China.
A large number of the people whose countries are occupied are Moslem.
Perhaps that gives a clue as to why they are willing to blow themselves
up. In WWII many people, including the fathers and grandfathers of some
of us on this forum, offered their lives to fight tyranny. There is
nothing new or surprising in that.
John
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