August 9, 2004

Jewish students attacked at Auschwitz. This sad account posted at JPost.  While on a tour of the museum at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland on Sunday, a group of around 50 Jewish university students from Israel, the U.S. and Poland were verbally attacked by a three-member gang of French male tourists.  [Israpundit] 3:19:01 PM

From jihadwatch.org:  This echoes other findings about how terrorists are relatively well-educated and affluent, and is in accord with what I have been saying for some time. From the Winnipeg Sun, with thanks to Nicolei: TORONTO -- Suicide bombers are rational, sane people whose choice to end their lives as they kill others is considered perfectly normal in societies they grow up in, the Globe and Mail reported yesterday from a southern Ontario religious conference. In a chilling analysis of what makes a terrorist, a U.S. psychiatrist who worked for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency said most extremists who use violence are not emotionally disturbed. In fact, they would be expelled from their organizations if they appeared to be unbalanced, the Toronto Star said from Orillia, Ont. "Most terrorists are quite normal. It's hard to understand but quite true," Jerrold Post said Friday.... He said "psychological warfare," or education, is the most effective weapon against terror. Young people must learn the version of Islam in which they have been indoctrinated has nothing to do with mainstream Islam. That might be the largest, but most important, challenge of all. I wonder if Post appreciates the fact that when imams are allegedly getting involved in terrorist activities from Albany to Thailand, and respected religious leaders are calling for suicide bombing, the "mainstream Islam" he envisions might not be as strong as he thinks. 1:56:44 PM

Technology causes more stress: report The Age, Australia -Working women in the UK think new technology makes their lives even more hectic, according to a new report. 7:12:19 AM