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   "Dan Drake" wrote:   
      
   >> Insincere seems a too soft word to characterize a terrorist, no? I   
   >> wouldn't presume to guess what they are.   
   >   
   > Shucks, I'm still having trouble with this sincerity business.   
      
   So am I. Humans are so prone to self-delusion and so susceptible to   
   manipulation and conformity that I think religious sincerity is a very   
   problematic concept.   
      
   > Terrorists seem to me to be sincere as Hell.   
      
   Dying for your beliefs does seem a good test of sincerity.   
      
   > Is Osama bin Laden a sincere Muslim? It just doesn't seem to be the   
   > right question. Or maybe it is. He's sincere, but is he Mere?   
      
   Note that Ossie hasn't yet died for his, tho he may have come close to   
   doing so in the past. I don't agree with people who say Islam has no more   
   to do with terrorism than Catholicism has to do with the IRA. Al Qaeda et   
   al explicitly act in the name of Islam; the IRA explicitly act(ed) in the   
   name of Marxism. Guy Fawkes proves that Catholicism can justify terrorism,   
   but I can't imagine that happening today.   
      
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