Benjamin R. Barber Quotes
Terrorists aren’t states; they are martyrs with no address.
Benjamin R. Barber, Political Scientist, Interview, Time, September 22, 2003
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Some of the Prophet’s followers by modern standards were very violent and urged attacks on innocent people in order to intimidate others. He was expelled from his Egyptian university and arrested, tried and found guilty of “holding religion in contempt”. Which is a crime in most Islamic countries. He also “insulted” the President. He is the first blogger to have been jailed in Egypt for the contents of his blog. See {585058}.
This terrorist and his cadre were Muslims and in the Muslim religion, one who dies defending Islam is a martyr and goes immediately to Paradise where he is given a special place and 72 virgins. The planners and leaders of these Islamic terrorist enterprises somehow never themselves take advantage of the opportunity to become martyrs, but instead recruit gullible young men for the “opportunity.” Husin was killed in a shootout with Indonesian police and the written plan was recovered from his personal computer.
After years of minority Sunni Muslim rule of Iraq, the U. S. invasion gave the majority Shiite Muslims political control. The Sunnis and Shiites have been at each others throats for centuries despite the fact that they are both Muslims. Saudi Arabia is the center of Sunni Islam and many of its religious extremists issue edicts advocating the suicide bombing of Shiite mosques and other facilities and assuring martyrdom for the suicide bombers.
Benjamin R. Barber was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld, and for 2013's If Mayors Ruled the World as well as the classic of democratic theory, 1984's Strong Democracy (revised in 2004). He became a top-level international consultant on participatory democracy as well as an adviser to Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, and Muammar Gaddafi.
