how many pro-bombing mullah's would it really take to effect a positive
correlation?

- kevin


"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
-- G.W. Bush, --Reuters, May 5, 2000 (Thanks to Allison Fansler.)


On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Erica O'Connor wrote:

> Given that this study is even ligitimate, sounds like
> it found something not all that surprising, namely,
> sitting around the house being devout isn't as
> inspiring to a would-be-suicide-terrorist-supporter as
> going to a big religious gathering of like-minded
> individuals every day.
> -Erica
> Quote included to to please Daniel anyway:
> "Man will not be free until the last king is strangled
> with the entrails of the last priest."
> -by I forget who, Diderot?
>
>
> --- Daniel Reeves   wrote:
>
> > I'm not thinking about much else but thesis for next
> > several weeks but
> > this just struck me as amusing.  My (cynical) take
> > is that a study linked
> > religiosity to terrorism and then they decided that
> > wasn't so PC so they
> > found some obscure religiosity metric that they
> > failed to correlate with
> > terrorism and used that as the headline to make it
> > sound like they found
> > the opposite of what they really found.  Or more
> > likely the whole study's
> > just BS.  Ok, I'm going back in my hole now.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: U-M News Service
> >  
> > Subject: Michigan Today NewsE - June 2005
> >
> > UofM News
> >
> > If you have trouble reading this email please visit:
> > http://www.umich.edu/NewsE/ June 2005
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Personal devotion to Islam is unrelated to support
> > for suicide bombing
> > among Palestinian Muslims, according to a study at
> > the Institute for
> > Social Research. But the more often Muslims attended
> > mosques, the more
> > likely they were to support suicide terrorism.
> > (Islamic text image, from
> > U-M Museum of Art.)
> >
>
>