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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Machaon who wrote (2674)	9/15/2001 8:06:08 PM
From: Frederick Langford	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

Devotion, desire drive youths to 'martyrdom' By Jack Kelley, USA TODAY ZARQA, Jordan — The Hotaris are preparing for a party to celebrate the killing of 21 Israelis this month by their son, a suicide bomber. Neighbors hang pictures on their trees of Saeed Hotari holding seven sticks of dynamite. They spray-paint graffiti reading "21 and counting" on their stone walls. And they arrange flowers in the shapes of a heart and a bomb to display on their front doors. "I am very happy and proud of what my son did and, frankly, am a bit jealous," says Hassan Hotari, 54, father of the young man who carried out the attack June 1 outside a disco in Tel Aviv. It was Israel's worst suicide bombing in nearly four years. "I wish I had done (the bombing). My son has fulfilled the Prophet's (Mohammed's) wishes. He has become a hero! Tell me, what more could a father ask?"

To: Machaon who wrote (2674)	9/15/2001 8:37:55 PM
From: SOROS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

You are completely wrong. My pointing out that baby "humans" (of which you were one at one point and would not be an adult one had you been aborted) are being slaughtered is no attempt to discredit or find fault or compare the tragedy and the participants today. YOU have attempted to place words in my writings and IMPLY that I am lessening the human life that was lost in NY. This is utterly wrong! I don't care why the terrorists did what they did -- someone suggested they too point out abortion as being wrong -- they still deserve to lose their life for taking another. Just because we both see abortion as wrong does not mean we agree on everything, and it certainly does not justify their actions. Everyone who insists on calling human life that they don't value a "fetus" will some day be confronted with ALL of those souls (it does happen to say that God knows the number of hairs on your head before you are born) in eternity. Of course, if one is an atheist, then I suppose they can justify this position. But I guess if one belongs to a terrorist group, they can justify their actions as well. I take nothing away from the loss of life in NY OR the deep caring for human life in the actions of those picking up the pieces -- YOU draw that conclusion to ease your mind when confronted with abortion if you wish. I DO find it greatly disturbing for someone to go on and on about this particular loss of life like it justifies nuclear war on entire countries, etc. (or billion dollar lawsuits for one person getting cancer from smoking or spilling hot coffee on themselves) but see NOTHING wrong with abortion. I'm sure we will disagree on this, but I only have one source to lean on, and that is God's word. You can lean on man's quest to be a god, but you will answer for it someday, and America may very well be in the process of knowing what the true value of ALL life really is. I only hope that the majority of Americans do not throw words around like "force every damn fetus in every Woman's body to become a baby." If this outright contempt for life is in most people, then I greatly fear what is coming. I remain, SOROS