[quote=Oneironaut]But that would defeat the purpose of the act. These people aren't killing themselves because they just want to end their own lives. These people really honestly believe that there is a God, that there is a heaven, and that one way to get guaranteed entry into heaven is to kill infidels in the name of Islam.

Again, you seem to not understand what these people are killing for. They're not killing to spread a message, or to support some political faction. They're killing in order to make sure there are fewer non-Muslims in the world. That is why they target civilians. Because we civilians are just as non-Muslim as our political leaders, and thus, in their eyes, equally worthy of death.


From this statement, I take it you have not actually bothered to look at what's written in the Qur'an. So many people are so quick to swallow the whole "Islam is a religion of peace" myth because they think "real" religion is always supposed to be peaceful. Well, Islam is not a religion of peace. As long as you're taking the Qur'an seriously, at least.

I realize there are a lot of "moderate" Muslims who don't take the Qur'an seriously (perhaps even the majority) yet still believe parts of it, just like there are a lot of Christians who don't take the extremely violent Old Testament seriously but still believe in the Ten Commandments. This is because most people are moral to begin with and project their own morality onto their holy book when they read it, ignoring those bits that are grossly immoral. Some people, people who are more intellectually honest about their religion, don't do that, and take their holy text's morality as the ultimate authority on moral matters. We call these people "fundamentalists". You can't just pretend that the Qur'an has nothing to do with these terrorists' beliefs that non-Muslims deserve to be murdered. It's written right in there, whether you like it or not.[/i]




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IanCurtisWishlist Reviewed by IanCurtisWishlist on . Radical Islam Suicide bomb kills over 100 in Iraq - Yahoo! News So a suicide bomb killed over 100 people in Iraq. I think that if these radical extremists want to kill themselves, maybe they should strap a bomb to their chest and blow themselves up in a field away from innocent civilians. I don't really see the point in the message they are trying to give everybody. I am sickened by the attempted attacks in London and Glasgow and I hope the plotters have a very harsh sentence. What I do not Rating: 5