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Submitted by Tim Buck II (United States), Mar 12, 2009 at 10:24

I'm wondering just how many phrases Islam contains similar to "holy war" or "honor killings"? These concepts suggest to me a pathology, akin to schizophrenia because these are concepts that simply do not fit together - at least in any other religion I'm aware of. The phrase "martyrdom operation" - involving a mass murder-suicide - is equally insane and makes a mockery of any rational conception of religion.

When Arabs dance in the streets to celebrate mass murders by other Muslims, such as on 9-11, or when they hand out sweets to passers-by on the streets to celebrate the achievements of other murderers are they not both complicit in the killings and also demonstrating their own insanity? I think we make a terrible mistake when we treat Muslims as if they were similar to a group of harmless Methodists. If a Westerner were to try to blow up a group of (say) Hindus because of some religious dispute, that Westerner would be promptly locked up in a rubber room. In the Muslim world, that same bomber is treated as a rock star. We make another mistake if we humor their insanity because when we do so it simply feeds the disease. It's especially dangerous to do so in the age of WMDs.

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