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May 8, 2008
The 'Unthinkable Motive' Of Liberals (Video)
Topics: War on TerrorIn this clip, Sam Harris "touches on a blind spot shared by many commentators, especially on the left (HT - David Thompson).
David Thompson on Sam Harris, "root causes" and the left's disbelief in Islam as a motive for terrorism...
"I think liberals, almost by definition, don't know what it's like to really believe in God. They don't know what it's like to be sure that the book they keep by their bedside is the literal word of the creator of the universe and that death is merely a passage to an eternity of happiness. And so they find it very difficult to believe that anyone actually believes this stuff and is motivated by the content of their religious beliefs. And so liberals, when they see the jihadist look into the video camera and say things like 'we love death more than the infidels love life' - and then he blows himself up - it's the liberal in our society, the religious moderate or the secularist, who is left thinking that's just propaganda."Continue reading ...
Posted by Richard at May 8, 2008 10:40 AM
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