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Topic: Re:Re:Re:American Barbarity
Posted by: Richard Carter
Date/Time: 10/10/26 17:05:00

I hope it's clear that I have absolutely no sympathy for Nidal Hussain, but showing publicly his execution is not only vile (just for a moment, think what it'll look like when a man in a wheelchair is shot to death) but, as Matthew Syed powerfully argues in the Times today, it is stupid because the one thing that people like Hussain craves is publicity:

"Jihadists want to die publicly. They crave as many eyeballs as possible. Martyrdom — and this killer was a martyr to his core — is only partly about being reunited with God at the moment of extinction (as the Quran puts it, those killed in Allah’s cause are not dead but alive with their Lord); it is also about inspiring more jihadism. It is a public statement; advertising, if you will. The entire point of a martyr is for his death to be known, to secure a platform, and Hegseth is in effect handing them America’s arsenal of media assets."

https://www.thetimes.com/article/cb66ed49-3b2c-4e55-8eee-0316f0a0e8d8?shareToken=a5db662ce17c630325352f9b212152c8

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TopicDate PostedPosted By
American Barbarity09/10/26 16:40:00 Clifford Cowell
   Re:American Barbarity09/10/26 17:17:00 Richard Carter
      Re:Re:American Barbarity10/10/26 11:00:00 Sue Hammond
         Re:Re:Re:American Barbarity10/10/26 17:05:00 Richard Carter
            Re:Re:Re:Re:American Barbarity10/10/26 21:37:00 Steven Rose
               Reply 10/10/26 22:07:00 Sue Hammond
                  Re:Reply 11/10/26 08:26:00 Richard Carter
                     TDS11/10/26 12:30:00 Jonathan Callaway
                        Re:TDS11/10/26 12:54:00 Jonathan Callaway
            Re:Re:Re:Re:American Barbarity11/10/26 13:02:00 John Hawkes
               Reply11/10/26 18:44:00 Sue Hammond
                  Re:Reply11/10/26 19:05:00 Steven Rose
                  Re:Reply11/10/26 19:08:00 Jonathan Callaway
                     Re:Re:Reply11/10/26 20:48:00 Steven Rose
                        Re:Re:Re:Reply11/10/26 20:54:00 Steven Rose
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply11/10/26 21:56:00 Jonathan Callaway
                     Reply11/10/26 22:16:00 Sue Hammond
                        Re:Reply11/10/26 22:25:00 Steven Rose
                        Re:Reply11/10/26 23:34:00 Jonathan Callaway
                           Re:Re:Reply11/10/26 23:50:00 Richard Carter
                              Re:Re:Re:Reply12/10/26 00:03:00 Richard Carter

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