Posted by Samhain_Dream at 206.58.228.6 on September 17, 2001 at 00:18:02:
In Reply to: Coming up for air posted by Repost for Kevin on September 16, 2001 at 22:47:43:
I've heard that there is a way to die in a holy war called a 'jihad' that offers salvation to Muslims. Was this act a radical, bigoted form of the jihad?
: This is what happens when people take their religion far too seriously.
We must be proud not only for America, but Homo sapiens civilius, in general. This war will take the whole world to help fight.
: If you're not proud to be an American this week, I urge you to get your
: jaded head out of your ass and stand in front of a flag and say the Pledge
: of Allegiance with as much fervor as you did when you first learned it in
: grade school. Because all that rhetoric we're usually fed during election
: years about patriotism and love for our country that normally seems like
: bullshit? That rhetoric has become a reality again. And I'd like to think
: of it as the parting gift of the passengers of the hijacked airliners and
: the nearly five thousand innocents who perished in both towers of the World
: Trade Center. That's the silver lining to the dark and evil cloud that
: loomed over our country just long enough last week to remind us why we're
: all on this particular land mass to begin with...
: Because we choose to be Americans.
: I'll check back with you late