Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxii.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxii!tw8023 From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame Subject: Re: Terrorism and TWA 847 Message-ID: <146@pyuxii.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 08:25:55 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxii.146 Posted: Thu Jun 27 08:25:55 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 01:21:06 EDT References: <600003@ur-univax.UUCP>, <518@hou2g.UUCP> <3091@drutx.UUCP>, <475@ihu1m.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 37 Xref: watmath net.followup:5024 net.flame:10830 Nahh, you folks have it all wrong. Study the Koran. Tell them that if they don't toe the line, we will spray the entire country with pig's excrement, blood, and parts. In this way, none of the fanatics who believe they will be able to join Allah if they are killed in a Jihad will be able to. You can't make it to heaven tainted with pig's anything. This method has been used before to nullify the fanatisism of some of the Moslem groups. The British used it in India and in North Africa (WWII). As long as the Moslem fanatic believes he will not be allowed into paradise because he is tainted with swine, his fervor vanishes. This method precludes the killing of innocent people plus, the problem for the truly religious can be cleaned. Publish pictures of marines dipping their machine-gun rounds in vats of pig's blood and see how quick the howl goes up from the fanatics. This all may sound tounge-in-cheek, but it has worked in the past. You have to understand the all-consuming fervor of the religious Moslem in the Middle East. To be killed in the line of duty during a Jihad (the I-A-Toe-La Cock-a-Maimie declared one for the Shi'ites several years ago) is a free ticket to paradise, AS LONG AS YOU ARE NOT TAINTED BY ONE OF THE NO-NOs. Pig's anything on your person is a definate NO-NO. Perhaps we could line the inside of our airliners with pigskin. This would at least put a damper on the enthusiasm of Moslem terrorists, no? This all may sound silly, but, its better than shooting up the countryside just to drop a few terrorists. I suggest trying something on these lines, it couldn't hurt. Use Moslem philosophy to counter Moslem terrorists. (Disclaimer-- I in no way wish to hurt or harm innocent folk be they Moslem, Jewish, Budist, or whatever. If someone's sensibilities are piqued, then I'm sorry. I just get tired of all of the killing and perhaps we need a new direction.) T. C. Wheeler