They Just Want To Get Drunk And Have A Lot Of Sex
Martyrdom, Palestinian-style: How to sell a 16-year-old on blowing himself up:
The teenage suicide bomber, caught by Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint, said he wanted to reach paradise where 72 virgins were waiting for him.Hussam Abdo, 16, told the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, he had learned about paradise in school.
ìA river of honey, a river of wine and 72 virgins. Since I have been studying Koran I know about the sweet life that waits there,î he said.
He was caught yesterday with a suicide bomb vest strapped to his body at a crowded checkpoint, setting off a tense encounter with soldiers the army said he had been sent to kill.
Soldiers, taking cover behind concrete barriers, sent a yellow army robot to bring scissors to the teenager so he could cut off the vest and then made him strip to his underwear to ensure he was unarmed before detaining him.
Leaders in the Al Aqsa Martyrsí Brigades denied they were responsible for dispatching the boy.
However, local members of the militant group ñ which has ties to Yasser Arafatís Fatah movement ñ in Nablusí Balata refugee camp said they had sent the boy to the checkpoint.
The teenagerís family said he was gullible and easily manipulated.
Well, maybe our side could be the side doing the manipulation. Bill Maher seems to have it right:
...We should hire women to infiltrate al-Qaida cells, and fuck them.Things would change quickly. Because young Muslim men don't really hate America, they're jealous of America. We have rap videos, the Hilton sisters and magazines with titles like "Barely Legal." You know what's barely legal in Afghanistan? Everything.
Young men need sex, and if they don't get it for month after month after month, they wind up cursing the day they ever decided to go to Cornell.
Have you ever wondered why the word from the Arab street is so angry? It's because it's a bunch of guys standing in the street! Which is what guys do when they don't have girlfriends, or aren't allowed to even talk to a girl -- of course they want to commit suicide. Unlike this country, where it's the married guys who wanna kill themselves.
Pull out the troops, send in the hookers with vats of Gallo? Maybe it's not such a crazy idea.
(72 virgins article via Reason's blog)
I like B. Maher. As one of the few celebs with the guts to proclaim his nonbelief, I respect that. However he misses the point here, so I will correct him.(so many people to correct, so little time)
This whole jealousy rap that Bill espouses is hogwash. Patent hogwash. To ascribe the hatred of, in this case Palestinians, to hatred of or jealousy over our culture is dopey. In this case it might have something to with the boys homeland being stolen from under him by a rival bunch of religious wackos and nuts. To ascribe the horror of the Middle East and it's atrocities to jealousy of Girls gone wild or Paris Hilton's stuffed mouth is simply ludicrous. It's kind of like looking at the fall of the Roman Empire and ascribing it to the Barbarians(my ancestors) being jealous of "Roman Orgy Girls Gone
Wild." Dopey.
The Palestinians and the Arabs overall have real deep seated religious hatred of us. This is much more ominous.
Finally the implication is that if those Arab guys just get laid, this will be solved. Wrong. Having sex is of minor importance to people that are religiously insane to begin with and also have legitimate objections to their land and people being butchered. Offering an Arab some pussy is like offering Mrs. Linclon popcorn at Ford's Theatre.
chris at March 27, 2004 4:14 PM
Nope, Amy's right on track here.
You're right that it's not just about poontang. But videotaped blowjobs from Pamela Anderson are an irresistible metaphor for the blessings of civilization that these Arabian/Muslim cultures are eager to deny. Their cultures *ARE* abject failures; Our culture *IS* an ennobling success despite frequent licentiousness and indulgence. We're actually nourished by some of that stuff. How cool is that?
The whole "stolen homeland" things is specious. There are six million Israelis, and something like 150 million surrounding Arabs in 22 countries, and we're not even talking about Iran. Shitheel regimes throughout the region and elsewhere are use Israel to distract their people from the wretchedness of their own continuing failure.
You need not imagine that our enemies offer an exotic, sturdy alternative to Western capitalism; they're humanity's punks, and the horrors they inflict in these years are infantile tantrums writ large. The 9/11 hijackers were middle class, almost to a man. Getting fucked by cute girls, after struggling for it as so many American boys do, might very well sap them of their destructive energies.
Until it does, we ought not hesitate to punish them for misbehavior.
Crid at March 27, 2004 6:42 PM
Whoops! Make that 20 shitheel regimes! (Thanks, W!)
Crid at March 27, 2004 6:48 PM
It would be impossible for any human being to misread the situation more thoroughly than you have.
simply ridiculous. Israel did steal the Palestinians homeland. Period.
to ascribe this all to distemper and envy and blowjobs is simply silly and apparently born of having no grasp of history, war, religion or sanity for that matter.
Crid, is it? You are like the man who looks through a keyhole with a glass eye.
chris at March 27, 2004 7:26 PM
Hours later, I found another recent post using the word "hogwash," and wondered whether Volkay had sampled it:
http://donaldsensing.com/2004_03_01_archive.html#108032533789759612
Sensing's conclusion is clearer than Volkay's. And the recommended Peters article "Seven Signs of Non-Competitive States" has been a favorite since Den Beste linked it years ago. It's directly on point for Amy's post.
>> Crid, is it?
'Fraid so, Pilgrim.
Crid at March 27, 2004 9:47 PM
Don't know about sensing
only about your conclusions which remain simplistic, hogwash.
chris at March 28, 2004 5:24 AM