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Old 09-18-2001, 02:28 PM
Ideal08 Ideal08 is offline
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Can't you have concentration camps WITHOUT them being like the ones here in WW2 or the Nazi camps? That's not what I'm talking about. I just think they need to be detained. Not tortured or killed or starved or beaten or anything like that. Just detained. We don't have to harm them, geez. But the situation needs to be detained.

But they didn't attack us spiritually. Not to mention, everyone in America is not spiritual. We do have some Atheists, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are working in our government or fighting in our armed forces and what not. How does fighting this holy war spiritually translate to them? (I have so many questions.) I don't think this is a holy war at all. I think that that may be what it is to bin Laden and his crew, but not to us. Exactly how do you fight a holy war? Is that really what this is about? The Jews (Israel) taking the Palestinians land, had nothing to do with religion, did it? No more than the European settlers taking the Native American's land. That has nothing to do with religion. That's what I think this all goes back to (Israel & Palestine). This is more than just our troops remaining in Saudi Arabia, in my opinion. I guess I need someone to explain to me what a holy or religious war is, because I don't understand it. Not to mention, in everything I've read (even before 9/11/01) Osama and his crew have been described as a cult-like organization. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want David Kuresh and his peeps (if they were still alive) to wage a "religious" war on anyone in the name of the USA and Christianity. How do you fight a cult spiritually? Beyond the praying that we've all been doing? In my mind, what else can you do spiritually besides pray?

This whole thing has me . How can it be considered a Holy War when all of the Muslims around the world are not behind him??? If this was truly a spiritual thing, wouldn't they all pretty much believe the same things? Wouldn't they all fight for the same values? I understand that there are different strings of Muslims (Shiite, Sunni, etc.), but I just don't understand this whole thing. Don't they all consider Mecca to be the most holy of lands? Wouldn't they all want our troops out of Saudi Arabia? Wouldn't they have worked together on a plan or something to get us out? Why is it just the Taliban? How can one small group wage a Holy War? That's like one Protestant church bombing Vatican City for whatever reason, and calling it a holy war, when no other Protestants are behind that one church. Yall get what I'm sayin? It makes no sense to me. None of this mess makes any sense.

Help me out yall, because there is something I either don't know or I'm missing something.
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