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A death cult with no reason.


We should by now have become used to the death cult that is thriving at the fringes of the Muslim world The term Muslim world (or Islamic world) has several meanings. In a cultural sense it refers to the worldwide community of Muslims, adherents of Islam. This community numbers about 1.5-2 billion people, about one-fourth of the world. . This curt attaches itself to a political cause, but parasitically strangles strangles

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 it. The death cult has strangled stran·gle  
v. stran·gled, stran·gling, stran·gles

v.tr.
1.
a. To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle.

b.
 the dream of a Palestinian state The Palestinian state (Arabic (دولة فلسطين) is a proposed country. The proposed location includes the Gaza Strip and the autonomously controlled areas of the West Bank, currently controlled by the Palestinian National . The car bombers are not pushing the U.S. out of Iraq; they're forcing us to stay longer. The death cult is strangling the Chechen cause, and will bring not independence but blood. But that's the idea. Because the death cult is not really about the cause it purports to serve. It's about the sheer pleasure of killing and dying. It's about experiencing the total freedom of barbarism--freedom even from human nature, which says, Love children, and Love rife. This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening.
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Title Annotation:Opinion
Author:Brooks, David
Publication:New York Times Upfront
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 29, 2004
Words:140
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