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To: RinConRon who wrote (206592)	5/23/2007 4:12:47 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793718

While nearly 80 percent of U.S. Muslims say suicide bombings of civilians to defend Islam can not be justified, 13 percent say they can be, at least rarely. Does this seem strange to you? Forget the whole "Muslim" factor, 13% seems a low number for supporting suicide bombings in "exceptional circumstances". Scenario - Imagine you are 20 years old, the 7th of ten children. Some invading force comes in and destroys your society, in the process killing your parents and 9 siblings (indiscriminately). Your family had nothing to do with the military of the destroyed society, you were carpenters or something. In each case you can see the eyes of the member of the invading force as they launch the projectile that kills your civilian family, directly in front of your eyes, over the course of say a month. You, for whatever reason, survive, you get access to a suicide bomb vest, and find yourself with access to the same playground frequented by the invading forces leaders' 4 lovely children, ages 2-9. In that scenario, I think the number of war sufferer's that would kill the 4 children is higher than 13%.