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Analogies Between Islam and Pacifism

I've just read what might just be the silliest thing I've read this summer. I urge you to go read it for yourself, but here's point #2 of 7.

    2. Islam does not respect borders between the countries. “Peace” is also a “movement for eliminating borders”.

Wow. There's so much wrong there, I have to take two steps back just to see it all.

If that's not a parody, I hope the author is 15. It would be sad if an adult wrote that.

B.t.w, know what else doesn't respect borders ? Satan's Minions!

Why Terrorism Doesn't Work

Bruce Schneier writes:

    Although Bin Laden has complained that Americans have completely misunderstood the reason behind the 9/11 attacks, correspondent inference theory postulates that he's not going to convince people. Terrorism, and 9/11 in particular, has such a high correspondence that people use the effects of the attacks to infer the terrorists' motives. In other words, since Bin Laden caused the death of a couple of thousand people in the 9/11 attacks, people assume that must have been his actual goal, and he's just giving lip service to what he *claims* are his goals. Even Bin Laden's actual objectives are ignored as people focus on the deaths, the destruction and the economic impact.

    Perversely, Bush's misinterpretation of terrorists' motives actually helps prevent them from achieving their goals.

Read the rest. You'll be smarter for it.

Update: since the comments have turned to Rudy: Rudy's Five Big Lies