Wednesday, September 03, 2003

Seriously, God's not happy with you: For those of you who look at Muslim terrorists in the Middle East and wonder where such religious fanaticism comes from, here's something to remind you that it comes from human nature.

The anti-abortion murderer who is going to be put to death for killing an abortion doctor has been quoted as saying he expects to go to heaven: "I expect a great reward in heaven," he says. "I am looking forward to glory. I don't feel remorse."

He didn't mention seventy-someodd virgins explicitly, but he's no different than the Al Qaeda terrorists who expected eternal bliss for becoming martyrs by blowing themselves up along with innocent Americans.

This isn't the first time we've dealt with an American terrorist. Besides Timothy McVeigh and the Atlanta Olympic bomber, we also had that guy in Cleveland who drove his car into a mosque soon after 9/11 in an attempt to kill innocent Muslims living in the United States. Give that man access to an airliner and a bigger target, and he's just like the terrorists who crashed the planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

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