Re: Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyah killed in explosion
No, what matters is what really happens, not what people think.
No, in the Islamic world, it matters what people think and how they go on from there.
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God doesn't operate on what some brainwashed followers think. Murderers burn in hell. Period.
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Well that's your interpretation of God and hell. Who even knows if there is a God or hell? To the majority of the Muslim world, he was not a murderer, especially if he killed people who were occupying their country.
Re: Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyah killed in explosion
How do you know what they seek and what is in their hearts?
Well, when one takes great measures to hide and not be killed I think that they aren't really hoping to die but claim they are to recruit young men and women and brainwash them.
Of course, its just to chew you up and spit you out. One of my friends who is an Afghan vet was homeless for quite sometime.
I hope he is doing better now. The good news is we have a candidate for president who has pledged a "zero tolerance" policy on homeless vets and is committed to ending the problem.
Maybe you should study Shia Islam, then.
You mean Wahabis? Every group has their extremists.
Re: Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyah killed in explosion
Well, when one takes great measures to hide and not be killed I think that they aren't really hoping to die but claim they are to recruit young men and women and brainwash them.
True, but I still don't see any brainwashing done by Hezbollah. They are like any other social organization providing for Lebanon, something which the Lebanese government should do.
And I think there is a loss in translation of the meaning of "seeking" martyrdom and looking to die. Seeking martyrdom is a belief not really an act. For example you don't put a big sign on your house that says "Imad is home, Israel bomb here"
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I hope he is doing better now.
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He is, thankfully.
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You mean Wahabis? Every group has their extremists.
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No not wahabis, they come under Sunnis. Shi'ism is built on martyrdom and rebellion towards authority. Why do you think Saddam hated them so much? Because they were Shia? Hah! He could care less if they were Hindus.
Re: Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyah killed in explosion
Sure, maybe we should not have embassies in Kenya or Tanzania. Somebody always come up with some rationalization for mass murder. We should not have been in Lebanon, nor in Mogadishu. Let people kill themselves. Darfur, forget it. Tsunami? Screw 'em. Earthquake? Not my concern. Isolationism rules.
I say that we stay our of every cesspool in the world unless we think they are a threat to us. The only two black and white choices we have are doing nothing and Shock and Awe, nothing in between. Our military is for killing, none of this mamby pamby peacekeeping. Let the wholly ineffective UN deal with it.
Re: Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyah killed in explosion
Sorry, but when you target, kidnap and kill a particular person - that's murder, not collateral damage.
When you bomb the crap out of a general area, knowing FULL WELL there will be casualties, it's anything but "collateral damage". It's worse than an individual, targeted murder...it's the acceptance of murder as a statistic of war.
Re: Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyah killed in explosion
Unfortunately, war has been, is, and will be part be part of the human existence. It is so embedded that some religions actually advocate it. Go figure.
Re: Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyah killed in explosion
Far better to accept and *regulate *war, and internalize a moralized sense of what is proper conduct during war than what can only be construed as a feigned and hypcritical lauding of allegedly pacifistic religious traditions (I suppose we're meant to ignore context here) while simultaneously justifying - if not outright endorsing - violence which by it's very nature is similar to terrorist actions.
So...do I understand this correctly? All the terrorists have to do is say "ooops" after every attack and they too shall be forgiven any and all deaths that result from their acts? Wow.
Re: Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyah killed in explosion
Most never even heard of him until now.
Of course, the real man, the myth, the legend was Yasser Arafat, so much so that I've even heard some palestenians claim that he was an Israeli agent. How else could he have died a natural death?
If you took all action adventure movies of the 20th century, including all of James Bond crap, threw them into a flux capacitor, the product would be Yasser Arafat. The man, the myth, the legend.