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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (143548)3/26/2002 6:06:13 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (2) of 1583508
 
>Z, you may be right but I think that's a small part of it. At times it must look like the Palestinians are more into bombs than anything else but like most feuds, I think land disputes and economics was more at the root of this one.

Ummm... most of the continent of Africa and a large portion of South and Central America is poorer than the Palestinians, yet none of them are committing suicide bombings.

There have been two cultures that have produced suicide bombers that I can think of. The first is WWII era Japan, and they were imperialists, and not languishing in poverty.
The second is the Arab world of the last twenty years, much of which is in fact poor. Of course, the leaders, who are not poor, condone, encourage, and fund these operations. I read the Koran a couple of months ago. The whole 72 virgins thing for dying in Allah's cause is in there often, and there are tons of horrible anti-Christian, anti-Jewish statements in there. These people are ingrained with these anti-western values. They do not value the same things we do. Both the WWII Japanese and modern Arab world havehad/ certain bad ideas infused by culture. We beat it out of the Japanese- They're pretty cool now. It's time to do the same with the Arabs.

-Z
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