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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Elroy who wrote (59325)5/23/2007 1:17:32 PM
From: mph  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Says to me it means 1 in 8 US Muslims thinks there are some exceptional circumstances when suicide bombing is justified. If viewed that way, 1 in 8 seems to me low, and I imagine if you chose virtually ANY target group (Muslims, Hindus, Mexicans, contruction workers, lesbians, or whatever) you'd get 1 in 8 that can imagine a theoretical example where they think it's justified. So the big hoopla being made over this "survey" is unjustified, IMO.

That's because you believe that suicide bombing CAN be justified. I differ with you because I don't believe it can EVER be justified. So, if we have a 1 in 8 percentage of American Muslims believing that it is justifiable, I see that as a cause for concern.

I realize that saying it's justifiable doesn't necessarily mean that one would strap on a grenade and actually do it. But it does evince a certain predilection towards supporting accomplishment of acts of terrorism. The support can range from the financial to providing food and shelter to terrorists, or to funnelling necessary G2.

To put it another way, I can certainly understanding a desire for revenge. That doesn't mean I would believe it is justified or that I should condone it. Those are different things. I'm not willing to be an apologist for terrorists because they suffered some problems in their background. Sugar coating their behavior as a "justifiable" response to real or perceived wrongs is just another example of moral relativism.

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