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Samizdata quote of the day

Satan has no suicide bombers
– Unknown

20 comments to Samizdata quote of the day

  • snide

    Oh you guys are SO trying to wind some people up 🙂

  • Cobden Bright

    ET wrote – “I don’t get it.”

    The point is that only followers of God are suicide bombers – even Satanists don’t stoop that low.

  • Though I should add that I put this up because it made me laugh, rather than because it was some sort of profundity…

  • James

    Satan has no suicide bombers

    Nor do atheists.

  • Joe

    Yep – gave them all to Allah

  • Verity

    Joe – and the difference is …?

  • Julian Taylor

    Ah, but if there were wahabi-type fanatics prepared to “martyr” themselves in the name of Satan I wonder if instead of 72 ‘black-eyed houris’ they would get 72 Anna Nicole Smiths, and an especially bestial martyr (Beslan type) would get a Paris Hilton thrown in free?

  • Verity

    Julian – Anna Nicole is too good for them. She has smarts, however you define them. Paris Hilton, OK.

  • ernest young

    Is green your favourite colour Verity?

  • Verity

    In what sense, Ernest? Green’s the colour of envy. So tell us: what, in your calculations, would I envy? The now rich Anna Nicole or the now petite nosed Paris Hilton?

    Are you drunk?

  • The Snark Who Was Really A Boojum

    Actually, *all* suicide bombers belong to Satan by definition since suicide is forbidden by both the Bible and the Koran. ^_^

    As for there being no atheist suicide bombers? Maybe you should look again. One of the earlier posts in Samizdata did point out that Islamic terrorism had its roots in Leftist atheist ideology rather than in traditional Islam. Moreover, more than one 19th Century Anarchist did use guns or explosives to scrag others in circumstances where they themselves knew they would die. Since those anarchists are the ideological ancestors of the Liberterian movement one can say that Liberterian atheists were the *inventors* of suicide bombing. ^~^

    (Takes a moment to point at every atheist in this message board and snicker). ^_~

  • Tuscan Tony

    Maybe there are none in hell because hell for a suicide bomber is being admitted to heaven and forgiven. Or being told categorically that there is neither God nor Satan. Or for the real, real bad ones, being forced to watch UK daytime TV.

  • ernest young

    Verity,

    Charming as ever…. I always felt you were a ‘red’ person, always so angry at the world, with rarely a good thing to say about anything. Now I detect a patina of green, as you so rightly say, the colour of envy…

    No I’m not drunk, unlike your goodself, I can be snarky while being quite sober.

  • Winzeler

    The Snark Who Was Really A Boojum, what verse from the Bible do you have to suggest it forbids suicide?

  • Joe

    Hey Verity,

    “Joe – and the difference is …?”

    One of those complex nuance thingy’s 😉

  • Verity

    Joe, Well, I think that’s the first time I’ve been accused of being nuancy. It was more of a lunge really, and I missed. I was trying to make the connection between two mythical beings being avatars of each other – Satan and Allah. But it didn’t work.

    Besides, regarding Satan, sometimes I hae ma doots.

  • M. Simon

    I find the thought comforting.

    One less hazard in hell.

  • Actually the first suicide terrorists I ever ran into were Marxist Leninist PFLP types in 1974.

    That religion has more or less collapsed, so will Islamofascism.

    PS I saw a great T shirt on the subway last month, a picture of the devil saying “Jesus is busy, How may I help you?