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Re: Define "cognitive dissonance"
[quote name="Lufteufel"][quote name="Lizard_King"]<a href="http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=26263">Arab News at bat</a>[/quote] [quote name="Abid Khazindar"]To carry out attacks against an enemy occupying your land, killing your children <b>and humiliating your family</b> — which is exactly what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinian people — is considered legitimate jihad. [empahsis added] [/quote] Not only killing your children, but <font size="-1" color="gray">***gasp***</font> <font size="+1" color="pink"><b><i>humiliating your family.</i></b></font> Any culture where these two acts carry anywhere near the same moral weight is a culture the rest of the world can't reasonably be expected to tolerate indefinitely. [/quote]