" "It proves these guys are animals. They're not human beings," retired general Wetzel said. "They're animals and they're out to kill you and
me and everybody in Columbus and everybody in the United States."
A longtime CSU political science professor had the chance to witness a beheading a few years ago in the Middle East, but chose not to. Dr. Raymond
Gonzalez says it's now being done for shock value, to decrease support for America.
He says, this time, it's a lot different than beheadings that still happen overseas, as so-called proper punishment according to Islamic law and
government. "
Excerpted from.
www.wtvm.com...
" The recent gruesome beheadings by Islamic extremists of Americans and a South Korean also carry significant symbolic import. Jordanian-born terror
chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who says he personally beheaded American Nicholas Berg on May 11 and who also took credit for the execution this week of
South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il, is telegraphing a host of messages via the act of decapitation, according to experts on the psychology of
terrorism.
Among them: That the terrorists intend to strike at the head of their enemies' power and kill it; that the victims and their societies are no better
than animals slaughtered for their meat; that the perpetrators are ruthless and will inflict the unthinkable on their enemies; and, to their
supporters, that they are using the Islamic sword of justice to smite infidels and so terrify them that they will flee the region, never to return.
"
Excerpted from.
www.thesunlink.com...
Beheadings are nothing new and still happen in the Islamic world, those that are radical. Radicals have beheaded and shot in the head people of their
own religion, women and in some cases men if they are viewed as moderate Muslims, or the women if the husbands think they are being unfaithful. I
don't know why is it that you don't think the radicals would behead what they would call infidels....
[edit on 29-6-2004 by Muaddib]
