Remains of the Day

I think Swisspeas missed his flight.... Too bad!

I say we flush Swisspeas down the toilet along with the other deserving members....

(from the story)--Even so, he believes that the remains should be returned. It would be, he says, an example of "the highest morals. This is what makes America great."

I fully agree with that sentiment. It's the same reason we never should have conducted torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Desecrating the remains makes us no better than the terrorists. "He who lies down with dogs wakes up with fleas."

The hijackers remains should be ground into dust and deposited in a sewage treatment plant.

Just flush them down the drain!

Send them to the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley! The Hearst seems to take everybody--even six sets of human remains from the Battle of Saipan (catalog numbers 12-11061 to 12-11066). And next to them are over 9000 sets of Native American human remains.

the hijackers remains should be entomed in a block of bacon grease inside a glass spere & put on permanent display.

Amina Hassan: One thng I do realize is that the terrorists, for the most part, are the muslim equivalent of fanatics...we have many groups that can be lumped into the fanatic category. After 911, the muslim groups in the US were very quick to indicate that terrorist acts are not the muslim way and in fact the Koran indicates peace rather than violence. As for the Afghanistan invasion..that is an act against terrorism and not the people of Afghanistan. Unfortunately, no matter how carefully attacks ar eplanned, civilians and innocents end up hurt,yes, I agree, in that, the invasion is wrong. Iraq I can't comment on as I have mixed feelings on that one. Hussein needed to be brought down is all I can agree on for certain. Religion is probably one of the number one reasons why people fight and it is a stupid reason. Not that people are stupid but why one's religious beliefs have to be one way or another in order for there to be peace is still a mystery. The people in the Middle East have been fighitng for so long and so hard due to religious beliefs that I doubt they truly understand just why all the fighting began in the first place. At this point, it is a way of life rather than anything out of the ordinary.

Hey Hassan: it works both ways. we have the right to incinerate those who attack us also. we also have the ability. Whyt don't they stay in their countries and work in a civilized maner to bring about positive change instead of blaming the most convinient targets for your own deficiencies both social and economic. why do the moderate members of thecommunity support these radicals ? are they all radicals at heart?

why don't they use these funds to bring about positive change instead of funding terrorist actions which cause the rest of the world to percieve them with contempt. they are not winning over any friends and eventually even the bleeding heart liberals will abandon sympathy for them. People who hurt innocents with deliberate premeditated actions should be treated as the animals they have become not humans as they once were.

10 pounds of alpo!

Simple solution to what should be done with the remnants of the terrorists. The terrorists chose incineration, getting burned by fire in that fiery crash. So cremate them and dump them bastards in the toilet and flush them. Or without cremating them, dump them in a garbage pile.

to labdddy: I m glad that you asked for an explanation, instead of laying blame. First of all it is an ayat , you should not read the word to word translation and draw your conclusions from there. In almost all Qurans, the context and background of each and every ayat is explained, in the form of tafseer.

That is why, when you read the tafseer, we know that during the life of Holy Prophet(PBUH), often a certain event occurred, and afterwards, Allah sent a revelation to Holy Prophet.
This ayat was sent down like this. There was a battle of Uhad, between Muslims and Non-Muslims. The Muslims were winning. The Holy Prophet(PBUH) had stationed 50 men on top of a hill and instructed them not to move without his order.
However, anticipating victory, 40 of the 50 men left their station, without Holy Prophet???s permission. The non-muslims came from behind and attacked them. And muslims had to suffer a lot of loss of life, etc. Thus non-muslims began to say to muslims that if Holy Prophet(PBUH) was a true prophet, he would not have lost. So, it follows that they did not believe Allah and His prophet(PBUH).
It really was just a lesson for Muslims. In order to reassure Holy Prophet (PBUH), Allah is saying in this ayat that I will (WE) cast terror into the heart of those who disbelieved Holy Prophet(PBUH). NOT muslims casting terror, but Allah. You see, Allah is merciful, yes, but His anger is huge too. He can do whatever He wants.

Coming to the ayat about people being punished, it is again that you have to look at tafseer, the context, the background. Like you have to see why something has been said by Allah, and for whom. Not just that you look at a single ayat???s translation
The Ayat ???s meaning is that if there???s an Islamic country, and anyone(be it a person claiming to be Muslim even) or a non-muslim, who prevents, i.e. puts hurdles in Muslim???s way from practicing Islam or living without fear, acts against Muslims, and creates chaos, insecurity, fear etc, an e.g. is suicide bombers, THAN they are to be punished.
It is retaliation, a defense of Islamic land and country. If someone initiates violence and kills Muslims, hurts them, so to punish them.
Finally, I would like to add that people in West say suicide bombers are Muslims, claiming to do Jihad. Well, that???s false, Jihad(which is defense, not unprovoked offense) can only be declared ,in front of entire world, by head of the Islamic state, the central government in power. It cannot be begun otherwise, by individuals or a grouip of people. Has anyone ever heard from an Islamic country ???s head, declaring Jihad?
No, So all those who kill people in name of Jihad are wrong, especially since they are killing Muslims in the bombings as well. 9/11 was also wrong.