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Suicide Bombings - Much More Newsworthy |
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Written by Raff Ellis
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Saturday, 10 March 2007 |
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Suicide Bombings - AGAIN? - Now That's News!
By Yusuf Estes, former National Muslim chaplain, Delegate to United Nations World Peace Summit for Religious Leaders
The news media jumped all over the latest suicide bombing like a hungry dog on a newfound bone. That someone would give up his life in such an act is simply unfathomable to the Western mind.
Why would anyone do such a thing? They must be demented or they were driven to it by fanatical fundamentalist clerics. Those are the only possible explanations.
And of course, they must be ISLAMIC TERRORISTS? Right? (wrong?)
What about the people who are innocent victims and they are also Muslims? Are they the terrorists?
The inability to fundamentally fathom the mindset of a population that has been systematically impoverished, displaced, brutalized, humiliated and lied to for several decades lies at the heart of the problem. What the Western media doesn’t want its audience to know is what has lead up to the latest suicide bombing, what really lead up to it.
Why are these people taking their own lives and the lives of so many innocent others? What is really happening here?
The following notion should be drummed into the heads of our politicos and their rabid Fundamentalist supporters:
If you give people nothing to live for, you give them a lot to die for.
Write to me and tell me what you think is really going on - I want to publish the best results sent in:
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 16 March 2008 )
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