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How to make a suicide bomber (Free verse) by Caducus

If I invaded your city told you how to live, who to worship spat on your brothers would you fight back? If I punished you Without proof By starving your children And shooting your people Would you accept it? If I went on television Shook the hand which strangled you The hand with a wedding ring that killed your pregnant wife would you honour her memory by doing nothing? If it were me And you destroyed my identity, Killed my brothers Criticized my God Labelled me a terrorist Decimated my way of life, Then maybe in my maddening I would strap a bomb to my chest Walk in to Starbucks And blow myself to smithereens. To be tomorrows news After the silicone model On page 4 labelled scum With no reason to say why I did it.

zodiac 14-Mar-05/9:46 PM
I'm not saying normal (ie, Western) people don't resort to violence in extreme (or even not very extreme) circumstances. Of course they do; that's not the point.

The point is, do you think modern European or American people would become suicide bombers if put into a situation like that of Iraq or Palestine (or anywhere else with suicide bombers)? Do you think the Iraqis, Palestinians, or people wherever disposed to suicide bombing, would stop being disposed to it if they were put into a situation like, I don't know, modern Chelsea?

Maybe you mean if our cities were invaded, our worship commandeered (this incidentally isn't true), etc etc etc, we'd become something like the Iraqi insurgents - not suicide bombers. This is probably the case. But personally, I don't think Americans could ever become suicide bombers under any circumstances.




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