Unimaginable evil
Reader comment on item: Bombing Suspects Lauded Jihad

Submitted by Rebecca, Apr 19, 2013 18:19

These people are brainwashed into believing that what they are doing is the right thing. The killing of so-called infidels is the only thing that they live for, and ultimately, die for.

We have become way too complacent in the past few years, concerning terrorism on our own soil. Since 9/11/2001, our trains and malls remain unprotected. Our schools don't have enough protection. In Israel most shopping malls have security x-rays at all entrances. Any backpack left unattended is destroyed. I was witness to one of these events in Jerusalem, so I know that most Israelis are aware of their surroundings and notice things like lone backpacks.

I was introduced to a vigilant way of living back in 1980 in Manila. Although inconvenient, it was much safer to have to go through an x-ray at entrances, than to have the risk of being blown to bits by a bomb. Unfortunately a few months before we arrived to the Philippines, an American woman lost her life due to a bomb hidden amongst canned goods in a supermarket in Manila.

It seems that there is an insidious growth of radical Islam in our country, and many Americans are naive not to recognize or believe in its existence. We can learn a lot from the measures that Israel has taken to use preventative measures against terrorism.

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