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To: Bridge Player who wrote (61453)	4/24/2008 12:18:45 PM
From: Travis_Bickle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542125

Okay there a a few problems here, first of which I don't recall any news reports about child suicide bombers, or Iranian suicide bombers, or suicide bombers in general striking out at people because they are not Muslims ... that would be a problem if it were happening as we have a large number of Muslims here in the U.S. and are a pretty open society affording lots of infidel-killing opportunities. What you are doing is taking a group of a billion people and tarring them all with the same brush due to the actions of the very few ... and those very few who do carry out suicide attacks generally have very specific targets. Attacks are carried out against Israel for a reason ... regardless of whether one agrees that it is a valid reason, the attacks are not attempts to kill non-Muslims in general. It's true that if we were to attack Iran we could be the target of suicide bombings, just as in Iraq ... in WWII the Japanese used planes as suicide bombs ... that sort of thing just tends to happen once armed conflict is initiated. Imo the attempt to tar all middle easterners other than Israelis as suicide bombing maniacs stems from sheer bloodthirst. There is a significant portion of our society that just doesn't see them as fully human, and would not object if all of them were wiped off the face of the earth.

To: Bridge Player who wrote (61453)	4/24/2008 1:54:59 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542125

>>For the same reason that many people who love their children are thrilled to their core to see them sacrifice their lives by becoming suicide bombers against infidels, in the name of Allah.<< BP - Are you quite sure the parents of suicide bombers are thrilled to their cores? I would venture to say that isn't necessarily true of most of them. I've seen video of such parents wailing in abject grief. In the absence of some kind of evidence that suggests they're mostly "thrilled", that isn't a statement I can accept on its face. - Allen