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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (221916)	3/1/2007 3:56:43 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I disagree. When I think of the Mafia, I think of organized crime. I think organized crime is responsible for the killings of thousands each year in this country not to say how many more die in drug, prostitution, and related gambling deaths. Now you are stretching a point. What does "responsible for" mean? Do the mafiosi kill thousands each year in this country with their own hand? Probably not. Do thousands get killed in drug, prostitution and gambling rings that the Mafia enables? Probably, but the Mafia isn't whacking them, and, more to the point - the Mafia does not seek their deaths as an end in itself. The Mafia wants money and power, and will kill to get it. But too much killing is not good for business, and carries risks of bringing down too much heat. For contrast, Al Qaeda wasn't just "responsible for" the death of 3000 in the WTC - they did it deliberately. Their only disappointment in the day was that it wasn't 10,000 dead. I don't think religious zealots are magicians. They are not going to recruit that many that are willing to kill themselves. Recruiting for religious zealots can't be all that easy. Wish I could agree with you, but the Middle East is currently producing splodeydopes aplenty. Let me quote the Egyptian blogger Big Pharaoh, since he's right in the middle of the mentality that causes this and I think he describes the situation well. The Curse Everytime a suicide bomber kills himself along with hundreds of innocent people in Iraq I ask this question: how come up till now the Arab/Muslim world is not asking itself where these suicide bombers are coming from? Iraq's suicide bombers are just too many. It's very scary people. Here are people willing to kill themselves just to slaughter a few Shittes in a market or poor Iraqi police recruits. That freakin scary. If you can convince someone to blow up himself in the midst of a group of Shittes, then you can convince another to blow up anything. And what really makes me so angry is the fact that the Arab Muslim world, its intelligentsia, its religious leaders, its Al Jazeera, are paying zero attention to the fact that hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of Muslim youth are willing to blow themselves in anything. What makes me so angry is the fact that the Arab/Muslim world have no time to think about the mass murderers it's pumping out everyday, it's busy rioting over cartoons 4 months after they were published, busy complaining about "Islamophobia" in the West. Whenever a Muslim blows up himself to kill hundreds of other Muslims I always tend to call that "the curse of the Jew". We allowed and justified suicide bombings against innocent Israelis in cafes and malls. We religiously sanctioned the actions of every Palestinian suicide bomber who killed and maimed Israelis. Now it seems the suicide bombers are killing far more Muslims than Jews. The deafening silence of the Arab/Muslim world towards the mass slaughters in Iraq indicate one thing: this region will stay in the abyss of darkness, ignorance, and backwardness for a very long time until someone really rises up, takes it by the neck, and forces it to look in a mirror and see the ugly reflection. http://www.bigpharaoh.com/2007/02/04/the-curse/