"Terror is glamour -- not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers. Many are influenced by the misdirected image of a kind of magic that is inherent in these insane acts. The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other peoples lives. There's one thing you mustn't forget here: the victims terrorized by radical Muslims are mostly other Muslims."
SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH SALMAN RUSHDIE
~Ok Mr. Rushdie in this interview is promoting his latest book, in which coincidentally his fictional protagonist joins fictional jihadists, but do we in the West really need a "terror is glamour" meme perhaps infecting our growing medically uninsured, mimimum-wage earning disaffected masses?
Can we avoid it? That train's already left the station? The unprecidented incarcerations from the War on Drugs followed by the bankrupting war in Iraq and new government powers over it's citizens make American homeland grown acts of terrorism all but a certainty?)
Mr. Rushdie also has nice things to say about fundamentalists, the 'spiritual', and how "a conscious, fearless way of life" (sic) not war will triumph over terrorism.
Posted by Stubbornson at August 28, 2006 03:37 PM