Friday, February 19, 2010

Suicide bombings, U.S. style

Jim West has a comment on the guy who flew his plane into the IRS building in Austin:

...amidst all our concern about attacks from Muslim terrorists, we have plenty of our own home grown murderers to be more concerned with. It wasn’t Muslims who blew up the Federal building in Oklahoma City. And Mr Stack doesn’t appear to have been a Muslim either.

America, perhaps it’s time to look at the cancer within and uncover its cause so it can be cured. Or to use a biblical image- perhaps we need to look at the beam in our own national eye before we try to clear out the speck in the eye of Islam.

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Let's expand on that a bit...You can claim that the Muslim attackers are motivated by religion, and the one yesterday wasn't. But, wasn't it really religiously motivated? I submit that his god was money—and he didn't have as much as he wanted. Take a step back and think about it. Where were the 9/11 attacks aimed? At the real gods of the U.S.: Money and military might. They didn't waste their time on the Statue of Liberty or other symbols that we claim are important; no, they attacked the real gods in our culture. They saw more clearly than we do as to what is really important to us.

Don't you think it is time we repented?

Just an
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