Hey everyone, long time no see. I've been gone from here quite a while, and without telling too. Let's just say I was bored to hell and wanted other stuff to do.

In any case, as a school essay for my English class, we were assigned to write an essay about something that went on in the world. Not too long ago, the 27th December to be exact, Benazir Bhutto, who was the former premier minister in Pakistan, was killed when she left a meeting in Rawalpindi. She had just 2 months earlier been in another assassination attempt that took over a 100 people's lives.

This piece is written after me and some friends had some heated, yet in ways, amusing discussion over muslims.

If anyone gets angry with what I've written, then uh, good, I suppose, as it's in some way supposed to have that effect.

In any case, happy reading.

For the love of God

Suicide bombers are fun.

I don't want to trivialize Benazir Bhuttos and 24 others' deaths. But with all the idiocy in the world it's not difficult to see the life's comical side.

Let us look away from that this deed probably won't result in that her party dissolves. She has already been replaced by her son. A knockback, yes. A defeat? Nope.
Compare to India: Indira Gandhi was shot 1984. Her son Rajiv took over. He was blown up 1991. His wife Sonia took over 1998 and led the party to victory 2004. But as said, let us look away from stuff like that.

Say that you don't like someone's politics so strongly that you can't discuss or negotiate with her. She has so wrong she just has to die. In a sick and twisted way, sure, I can buy that.

But it's not enough that they kill her but they take the opportunity to blow themself up when they've finally gotten their hands on the C4. "HAH! Right back at ya!" kinda. Not only will they hinder themselves (or future offspring) to commit more "heroic acts" but they also give relatives and friends grief. But let's say they're in on it, and they "know" there's a life after death. But wait, with that belief in mind, the enemy will live on too. D'OH!

Sure, she'll be transferred to a worse department. While they party in paradise God(or Allah, if you want it that way) will give Benazir eternal spanking in hell. But she won't die completely, dissappear and cease to exist. The suicide bombing will become purely a logistic measure where they only transport themselves and the enemy to a new place.

Speaking of God...if he really wanted to get rid of Bhutto can't he, as the boss of the WHOLE BLEEDING UNIVERSE, himself do her in with an earthquake or something more surgical like getting hit by lightning?

Or maybe a little "accident"? Something that makes the tv-experts go: "I've never heard of someone getting an epidural, subdural, subarachnoidal AND intracerebral brain hemorrhage at the same time." Or: "It's very rare that women slip so badly with their ladyshave that it leads to bleeding out." And then there's the issue of liability areas. Anyone ever seen a surgeon working? Does laymen usually stand outside with a fruit knife in hand wanting to help? When engineers are building power plants then the villagers aren't burning with eagerness to contribute with their expert competence? When SWAT is disarming a bomb, I don't really hang around behind his shoulder screaming "Cut the red wire! The RED wire!"

Why are people who'd never dream of helping experts with their work be so flipping eager to help the almighty God?! Isn't that to look away from the chain of command or something? Why would the guy that has the creating of the atom and the Milky Way on his CV need the help of Mustafa and Beitullah? "God uses me as his tool."

Talk about enormous arrogance to believe that God would need me, even if only just a tool. And isn't pride one of the seven sins?

There is a hadith where Muhammed said "The one with pride in his heart, even with the weight of a small ant, may not enter the Paradise."
We're not talking about big or even regular ant but we're talking about small ant: the ants' Leif Pagrotsky.

Now, I don't believe in hell, but the suicide bomber that does should by his own logic and belief go there.

And think about it, how failed as a hardcore-islamist aren't you when you fail to see something even a heathen teenage student does?

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On another note, yes, I am writing the next chapter for the beach house. I just haven't had a lot of inspiration. ^_^;

Rest assure, the next chapter will be out before the month's end.

No wasting words~! -glomps-

Wow, a rant that is well constructed, makes a point, and backs it up with his enemy's words. When I started reading I thought it was some rant about something, but getting through it made me actually begin to like it.

I-I think I'm in love. Such a beautiful rant it brought a tear to my eye to see someone else who thinks sorta like I do.

I love you, Esgy. That was amazing and very effective.

And regarding the suicide bomber, in the words of Walter (From comedian ventriloquist Jeff Dunham): "Betcha can't do it again!... Dumbass."

Welcome back and I can't wait to read your next chapter. ^^

Well, that's why it's called terrorism :) Logistically there might be better ways to go about it, but there's something pretty shocking about knowing that she got blowed up by someone who hated her enough to kill himself in the process.

As far as the stuff about "helping god" I agree that one of the things I really have problems with about fundies is that I don't see how they can think they have such a perfect grasp of the will of an infinite being that they should kill willy-nilly in its name. That being said, as far as "god needing help" judaism at least considers man as god's partner in repairing the world - although humans are infinitely lesser than god, we're still part of god or something like that and in fact our actions our necessary for things to get better.

Well, conversely the suicide bombers may believe that their actions show their humility - their lives in this world are truly unimportant: they are merely tools of god, their lives to be thrown away on a moment's notice. Perhaps killing a former president of a country, or just terrorizing innocents with an explosion that kills those who are entirely inculpable (or as little as possible) in any way of any wrongs the suicide bombers feel they have suffered.

To you, what they are doing is a sign of overweening pride in their place in the universe; however, surrendering to god's will is as I understand it one of the "big things" about Islam, and from their POV the potential inconsequence of their lives or deaths (see the beginning of the rant) may well be an important part of a suicide attack. Many things can be taken out of context, or interpreted in certain ways, or whatever. I don't think the correct way to argue against terrorism is to use the same holy texts, because I think few works of literature and such only have one interpretation and while the bible/torah/quran/etc may hold singular holy truths, I don't think humans are going to be agreeeing on what that truth (or truths) are anytime in the near future.

and of course since before recorded history there have alays been leaders who have used religion as a way to persuade their followers

Sorry, but some of my friends are jews so I'll have to correct you on this.

Jews believe that people were put on this earth to take care of it. It isn't that God is some person above who has goals to achieve down here. It is that jews have the responsibility of carrying out gods will on this earth by taking care of it and doing whatever he says. If God wanted to do something, based on their religion he could do it in the blink of an eye, but since this world was created for humans, humans have the responsibility to take care of things themselves rather than having God do everything.

Esgal... that was genius... Sheer genius. props man... props...