Lindsey writes this:
“Unwitting suicide bombers” — that’s the phrase that keeps popping up in all the reports. It may seem completely stupid for me to quibble with semantics in the face of such a horrific act as strapping explosives to mentally disabled women and blowing them up in crowded markets to murder as many people as possible, but I don’t ever think that accuracy is a bad thing. And I happen to feel like it underscores just how horrific the extremist mindset is when we have to think of completely new phrases and concepts to describe the type of violence they are employing.
I know “unwitting suicide bomber” was chosen by reporters or editors because it so closely describes the scenario in as few words as possible. You take a familiar template — the suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his/her chest — and inject “unwitting” in there in the hopes that people understand that it means that the people getting blown up weren’t hip to the plan.
Except that when you don’t know you’re doing to die, you’re not doing it intentionally, it’s not technically suicide. You take the intent out of it and we’ve got something altogether different.
We are in a time when reporters and editors are trying to come up with the right way in journalism to describe things we have never had to deal with before. Lindsey explains it very well.
Sooner or later, you’re bound to run out of volunteers.
No need for a new word.”Victims” serves nicely. They were murdered like everyone else who died in the remote-control explosion.
I’m not sure of the best term for this, but I agree that a suicide can’t be “unwitting.”
Which reminds me . . . I’ve always been bothered by FoxNews’ choice of “homicide bomber” to describe a person who is actually a suicide bomber . . . the “bomber” part provides the malicious/murderous information we need in the description.
Suicide bomber ….people who commit suicide don’t take innocent people with them.see below …these people are animals whose only goal is to kill all that don’t convert to islam… plain and simple wake up people no I never capitalize islam refuse to
Main Entry: 1sui·cide
Function: noun
Pronunciation: ’sü-&-”sīd
Etymology: Latin sui (general) of oneself + English -cide; akin to Old English & Old High German sīn his, Latin suus one’s own, sed, se without, Sanskrit sva oneself, one’s own
1 a : the act or an instance of taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally especially by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind b : ruin of one’s own interests
2 : one that commits or attempts suicide
Spanky, what do “bombers” do?
And, no, I’m not a reflexive critic of FoxNews . . . heck, I’m not even a critic except on this point. I guess you think “homicide bomber” is more descriptive of a person who sets off a bomb with the intent of killing himself?
I think “murderous fuckheads” is an adequate description.
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His intent his to kill The infidels. Anyone who refuses to convert He is seeking a reward for his evil deed thus not really concerned with his own death. A person truly committing suicide is only concerned with his own death. When you kill other people it becomes a homicide. In islam if you die by being a martyr u go directly to heaven. before everyone else . So my feling about is they do it for reward. I for one hope they all burn in hell
Spanky, did you miss the part where these mentally retarded women were detonated by someone else via remote control? You’re setting a new standard for heartlessness by wishing them into Hell for being murdered.
Spanky,
you didn’t answer my question.
Yea I hate the religion of islam it is evil and its goal is to convert everyone make all women slaves kill all that don’t convert the only way to stop this is to defeat them
Spanky — What would your enemy have to do to you to make you deny that Christ is your savior?
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I do npt believe my god of peace and mercy will send the innocents to heaven but the evil doers of this act….not my call i can only hope ….Jeffraham… they would haft to kill me
I do not believe my god of peace and mercy will send the innocents to hell but the evil doers of this act….not my call i can only hope ….Jeffraham… they would haft to kill me
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spanky,
can “suicide” ever be used as an adjective? What do “bombers” do other than kill people (in this context)?
they would haft to kill me
You see the nature of the problem, then, if you were to try on their sandals for a moment, yes?
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First for Ned you are correct about this from a purely proper use of the word. But I tend to deal in reality they are killers with no regard for anything but killing us…………. FOR Jeffraham … Thier Sandals,, Kill everone in thier way just not kill them but cut thier heads off. What does this say about thier sandals. My religion does not say kill those who dont convert, kill all the jews, use women for slaves, I dont have to walk in thier sandals to recognize hate and murder.
What does this say about thier sandals.
They think that you, your government, your capitalist way of life, your iPod, your McDonald’s, your Nike — they think it will force people to deny their most sacred beliefs (that’s why I asked what your enemy would have to do to make you denounce Christ).
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Thats the line….. But its not about religion to the rag heads, lets get this straight once and for all its about world domination for them. The 9-11 hi jackers went to kill in the name of thier religion but went to strip clubs the night before… the rulers of all these muslim nations live a western life style while preaching to thier followers that it’s evil…they kill women and children when it is not allowed in thier religion,,, its about domination. They keep thier people poor so they can be controlled so they have no options. The palestine nation as recieved enough money in aid to give every palestinan a million dolars each and then some it was spent on teaching hate and on weapons.
Okay, you’re a crazy mother fucker, so I’ll bail out, here.
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Something that we can agree on
Being crazy enough to make JP give up on a thread is kinda like getting kicked out of Guns and Roses for excessive drug use.
my work is done here
just kidding the best thing about this great nation is the fact me JP and ned can disagree with out having to worry about our goverment cutting our heads off
We do have that going for us, which is nice. ![]()