[Osx-nutters] jesus camp

[David Cake]

At 6:42 AM +0100 22/9/06, Stefano Mori wrote:
>On 2006-Sep-22, at 05:21, David Cake wrote:
>
>>	Which brings me back to where we started, that suicide 
>>bombing as a tactic was invented and used rather a lot by the Tamil 
>>Tigers, a secular nationalist group.
>>	Any 'intuitive' explanation of why suicide bombing is going 
>>to be far more likely by Islamist zealots is first going to have to 
>>explain away the Tamil Tigers successful use of it (which is a 
>>matter of historical fact, and thus trumps all 'I think its like 
>>this' explanations, which is all I've seen so far and all I expect 
>>to ever see on the topic).
>
>Secular, and nationalist. They represent the Tamil people. Not God, 
>but country. A people who have their own culture and identity. I 
>realise it's not a great subject to venture into, but it seems that 
>they draw their legitimacy in part from the notion that democracy 
>can allow one ethnic majority to dominate another ethnic minority 
>(them). The cultural and ethnic identity of the people seems really 
>important there? This verges on creating echoes with "ISLAMIC 
>Terrorism".

	I don't even understand whether you are arguing for or 
against your previous message that I was responding too, Stefano.
	I think you are trying to slip from claiming religious 
terrorism is specially dangerous to claiming that all terrorism based 
on cultural and ethnic identity is especially dangerous, based on a 
completely separate argument to your original, but I'm not really 
sure....
	Cheers
		David