Re: The Mind of an Islamic Terrorist
- From: snakehawk <snakehawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:21:15 -0700
On Jun 26, 2:58 pm, Shogun <sho...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Mind of an Islamic Terrorist
"The gates of Paradise are under the shadows of the swords."
The mind of an Islamic terrorist is difficult for a Western person to
comprehend. What could lead a person to cause his or her own violent
death is a question that is frequently raised. It is contrary to every
human emotion that we have. Yet, we know there are hundreds of Islamic
fundamentalists who are willing to kill and be killed for Allah.
I don't think the mind of the Islamic fighter who is willing to die
fighting is that hard to understand. It is difficult for us
westerners to imagine ourselves in the place of the victims of grossly
over-armed invaders. Those Islamic people have families and loved
ones to protect but have little means of getting food and supplies,
let alone weapons and ammunition. They face swarms of foreigners
driving motorized armor, wearing heavy protective gear, and armed with
the latest automatic weapons. Jet fighter-bombers thunder over their
homes at low altitude, artillery shells drop in at all hours, squads
of foreigners patrol their streets and burst through their front
doors, and their friends and neighbors, and even their family members,
die by the score and sometimes are left bleeding in the streets.
We westerns try to imagine what we might do under similar
circumstances, but we have been warped by western movies and
television programs to think of ourselves strutting bravely down some
alley and killing the invaders by the dozens like Rambo. We
westerners seem to forget that unlike Rambo, a person could get killed
taking on a tank with a handgun.
But the Islamic victims know better. They know that if they want to
resist the heavily armed invaders, the chances are pretty good that
they will be killed. Their choice, then, is simple: submit or die.
That's the ultimatum the west gives the resistance fighters in the
Middle East. We should expect that any of them who choose not to
submit will be willing to die. And they can either die from a rocket
blast or a tank cannon without doing any damage to the enemy, or they
can get in close with a bomb and at least take a few of the enemy with
them. I don't think that's too hard to understand.
What is hard to understand is the western mind, especially the
American mind. What vein of insanity propels people to send their
sons to die or be mangled in the deserts of the Middle East for no
return benefit to themselves or their country? And what of the
American leaders? What sickness keeps the elected representatives
supporting a program they know is exhaustingly expensive and of no
value whatever to their constituents, themselves, or the country they
are supposed to be managing? And of the Executives? Well, I never
could grasp the mind of mass murderers. I never could understand how
people could reach the pinacle of leadership of a country and then
order the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, including
thousands of their own, and squander the resources of the country they
have been entrusted to lead. I can almost understand the Islamic
mind--but the American mind is beyond me.
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