[lbo-talk] top fifty atheist bumper snickers

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sun Feb 3 13:20:40 PST 2008


The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, an ardently secularist organization, employs suicide bombings through its military appendage, the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine

With that, I'm over quota and out for the day.

On Feb 3, 2008 4:06 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:


> I suspect that a lot of readers here are going to be
> perplexed by Carrol's somewhat cryptic remarks.
> However, it is probably true that in the case of
> suicide bombings, the role of religion as a motivation
> has been overemphasized by many commentators.
> The University of Chicago political scientist
> Robert Pape has presented an argument,
> stressing the rationality of suicide bombings
> in a book, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of
> Suicide Bombing (New York: Random House, 2005).
> (A paper by Pape which can be found online and which summarizes his main
> arguments can be found at:
> http://danieldrezner.com/research/guest/Pape1.pdf).



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