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Douglas Becker <[log in to unmask]>
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Douglas Becker <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:19:58 -0400
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You may be right, but it's hard to say.

For someone with that mindset, dietary prohibitions may be a lot more
fundamental to them than taking of the lives of those who are infidels.

It's clear that the belief system doesn't have to make any sense for a
person to be a terrorist, and sometimes an insignificant belief or
superstition, as the case might be, could override one which most
reasonable rational people would consider a higher priority.

The question sprang from a comment elsewhere in the list about putting lard
on the railroad tracks to keep people from trains.

Beyond this, speculation could run, well, hog wild.

You should feel vindicated however, because I was resoundingly shouted down
for making the suggestion of lard bombs over Afganistan if they would not
give up terrorist leader[s].

It was made clear in no uncertain terms that the US would not want an
entire religion against us, so just ignore what I have to say on the matter-
-it was just a silly question.

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