Originally posted by: csf
Originally posted by: rchiu
Have you ever thought about why those people are so fanatic about the religion? Could it be that they have nothing to live for in the current world, and their only hope is in the after life?
I read about an article the other day on the role of women Chechnian rebels, which is highly unusual in the Muslim world where women's role is at home. The reason that there are many women terrorist during the Moscow theater hostage crisis 2 years ago, and it was women terrorist who blew up the two planes recently was that there aren't many Chechnian men left. Most of the men died fight against Russian. Those women lost their husband, children, really have nothing much to live for. It is easy for the Chechnian politician/terrorist to use religion and lure them into this struggle.
Think about it, if you have a happy life with family around you, why would you wanna die so that maybe you can get into heaven in the after life. The places where you see religious fanatics are those places where hope is lost and people don't have much to live for. Maybe that's a clue for you?
If you can't think with reason and try to dismiss an entire religion without understanding the political and social condition in those troubled places, the only thing you will achieve is self destruction of human race.
Thats great and all, but the primary reason for the Chechnya crisis is that the rebels are a minority of extremists who want to subjugate their nation and the surrounding areas to an Islamic theocracy. Take a look at their past attempts to invade Dagestan and drive out residents who did not subscribe to their brand of Islam (
Here, for example). The matter in which the Russians handled these insurrections and the question of whether Islam can ever coexist peacefully with other beliefs is up in the air, but if anyone started the whole terroristic mess, it's Chechnya. I think we can all agree that given the current global struggle over radical Islamic allowing another fundamentalist Islamic theocracy for the sake of appeasement would be a horrible move. I don't see how anyone can sympathize with the beliefs of the Chechan seperatists when their main plight is "we're not being allowed to violently force people around us who don't believe in Islam to conform to our way of life."
And like it or not, your touchy feely apologism doesn't come close to even partially justifying the horrible atrocities in recent days. "Oh, so a woman murdered 50 innocent civilians by bombing them in a plane? Oh, but, but we can't call that wrong because we don't understand their feelings!"