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Originally Posted by Dusty
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/georg...ry?id=13592860
"The long-term solution is to promote a better ideology, which is freedom. Freedom is universal," Bush said. "People who do not look like us want freedom just as much. The relatives of [former Secretary of State]Condoleezza Rice over 100 years ago wanted freedom. It is only when you do not have hope in a society that you join a suicide bomber team."
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Question to you gentlemen: I have a lot of respect for George Bush, but do you believe that
highlighted sentence is accurate?
Are the suicide bombers really "without hope"? I thought they were mostly middle class, educated, somewhat intelligent males who chose to honor their beliefs with their sacrifices because their Quran and their Mohammed tells them to do so. I know a bit about world religions and Islam after living abroad, but nowhere near the levels of Warrior-Mentor, PRB, SF-TX, Pete, T-Rock, etc... trying to understand, would it be correct to say their acts do not stem from "hopelessness", but are instead deliberate, well-planned and executed demonstrations of a committed Muslim?
It seems this point is central to understand. If, in fact, these suicide bomber Muslims are
full of hope, emboldened by their beliefs, their rituals, and by the teachings of their mosques, then the answer is not to give the Muslim people of the world "hope". The answer is in the first part of Pres Bush's statement to "promote a better ideology, which is freedom" and quit painting these guys as the rejects of society.
Thanks.
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