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The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not “cowards,” as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith –perfect faith, as it turns out – and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.

--Sam Harris

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  • Fuego
    Lv 4
    7 years ago
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    I think is accurate, they did (and do) as they must.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    Pure Insanity!! They were NOT men of faith. And they were total cowards!! There were children on those airplanes. They also sliced the neck of one of the flight attendants on one of the flights. They killed thousands of innocent people who did nothing to them! They killed out of envy of what America stands for: freedom, where they come from freedom is not a right.

    And I swear a few years before 9/11 I was at JFK and there were men who looked like they were from the Middle East. I looked at them to see they were using a video camera, the guy just happened to have it aimed at me when I looked at him, he quickly moved it and he smiled and laughed. I still to this day wonder if they were scoping out the airport. I know an actor James something, I forget his last name, but he said he saw Middle Eastern men acting very oddly on a flight he was on and he reported them, this was before 9/11 and nothing was done about his reporting them.

  • 7 years ago

    They may have not been cowards in taking their own lives, but were Cowards in the sense that they would not face our troops Man to Man, instead they go about killing innocent civilians, deliberately.

    If they want to die honorably, let them come and face the American troops and fight them.

    The sad part of the whole thing, is that these men were mislead, into thinking Heaven awaited them, if they committed these horrendous crimes. They were fooled, by their own leaders. And died for it.

    And it is sad that those who send them off to die, are themselves not going off to die, because they choose to live. They say, " Let others die, for my cause, I am not fool enough to do so myself"

    They, are the true cowards.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Sam Harris says foolish things. My mother, when I was just a little child, I remember her saying "THE DEVIL HAS HIS MARTYRS TOO" Harris can never admit this but it is obvious.

    This was very common with the Nazis VERY COMMON

    "he philosopher Karl Jaspers, who was also a psychiatrist, tells a chilling story of how he visited a hospital at the end of World War II, and was trying to console a dying German soldier, a young man, who was very troubled in conscience over what he had done as a guard in a concentration camp. “What is it, my son?” Jaspers asked in a kindly tone, “What is tormenting you?” The soldier with difficulty explained that once when he was guarding a line of prisoners headed into the gas chambers, he saw a Jewish boy escape, and now, he explained, on the point of death, he felt deeply upset that he had failed to do his duty and had let that boy get away!"

    Like many of his type Harris is a foolish idiot. No sense of history, no sharp reason to disambiguate the messy reality that life really is.

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    Tuesday, November 1, 2011

    Richard Dawkins says that rape is morally arbitrary

    The transcript:

    Justin Brierley: When you make a value judgement don't you immediately step yourself outside of this evolutionary process and say that the reason this is good is that it's good. And you don't have any way to stand on that statement.

    Richard Dawkins: My value judgement itself could come from my evolutionary past.

    Justin Brierley: So therefore it's just as random in a sense as any product of evolution.

    Richard Dawkins: You could say that, it doesn't in any case, nothing about it makes it more probable that there is anything supernatural.

    Justin Brierley: Ultimately, your belief that rape is wrong is as arbitrary as the fact that we've evolved five fingers rather than six.

    Richard Dawkins: You could say that, yeah.

    End of the transcript.

    and you know what Dawkins ended up saying !!!

  • 7 years ago

    Right on the money!

    Victims love to call names and demonize!

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    yeah..., IM GOING TO SAY NO. THAT IS ALL

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