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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (8898)	10/1/2001 1:31:07 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

KB, Re: <<As I noted before, the terrorists appeal to an emasculated (male) population with a clever mixture of fear, envy, greed and impotence, all wrapped up in The Big Lie, effectively couched in something they call "The Scripture.">> The one making the rounds lately is that we should tell the Taliban: "give us Bin Laden or we will take all your women and send them to college!"

To: kodiak_bull who wrote (8898)	10/1/2001 2:06:03 PM
From: que seria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23153

kb: Your comment about the depraved state of manhood in some of the extremist precincts is truer and sadder than you know, unless you've see this: three little girls who were raped for days by Taliban soldiers who killed their mother when she tried to protect them - the youngest was aged 9. She was able to film things other people could not because she speaks Pashtu and she wore a burka with a video camera concealed inside. Message 16437714 I'm no psychologist, but it seems to me that extremist Muslims have remarkably base, temporal, motives for their slaughter and suppression in the name of God. These appear from their obsession with subjugating women, with the 76 virgins they're counting on after martyrdom (where do all these virgins come from, anyway, won't a "holy" war outrun demand?), and with destruction of what they can't create. A pathetic remnant of Arabic civilization, not that all Muslims are Arabs. Some media attention to the nature and sincerity of extremists' belief is warranted here. Nihilists and murderers can only spew rationalizations in the guise of prayer; the real thing surely requires a spirituality lacking in these barbarians.