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To: Elroy who wrote (59296)	5/23/2007 10:46:08 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I suppose if you want to change the poll to fit your premise, you're free to do so. That's exactly what you did. Now, if you're saying that 13% of all people would favor suicide bombing as a method of revenge for wrongs either inflicted upon them or perceived to have been inflicted upon them, then I still find that to be a disturbing statistic. Suicide bombing is a cold, calculating, ultimately meaningless deliberate taking of indisputably innocent lives in order to make some political point or to exact revenge. I stand by my comments. Anyone who would choose to do so, out of some thought of revenge, belongs pushing up daisies. The act cannot be justified in the manner you suggest. Finally, how do you know what U.S. Muslims who agree with suicide bombings to further their agenda have done? Or what they're planning? The answer is, you don't. <edit> I should add that the actual statistic is of concern regardless of whether there is a documented suicide bombing on U.S. soil other than 9/11. If people are willing to be suicide bombers, they would be expected to believe in terrorist activities at large, which would extend to giving assistance to other plots, even if they were not required to strap on a grenade. It's the willingness to commit acts of terrorism that is the problem.