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Originally posted by *KK*@Mar 20 2003, 06:31 PM
You are dealing with a mindset, in these Muslim fundamentalists, that is more related to the Saracen wars or the Crusades, than you are dealing with a people that recognizes and realizes that this is the 21st century.
Given that their deaths elevate their status in life, why on earth would they care how many of their brethren we kill? That only makes them hungry and jealous for what their fallen kin have supposedly gone on to...
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That's the point I think SO many people are missing when they argue about how much "better off" Iraq will be because of our intervention. The fundamentalists of Islam call the West the Great Satan because they look at our way of life as immoral and evil, and the reason they hate us so much is because we've tainted their pure societies simply by being there and causing good Muslims to question a few thousand years' worth of doctrine and law.
They don't think like us, they don't believe as we do, and the ideals we hold dear are an affront to their religion and their god. Considering their long and bloody history defending themselves against the infidels, is it any wonder they're more than happy to become martyrs in order to keep us out, even today?