Mistral said:
The Palestinians celebrating the attacks on the US were certainly not the majority of Palestinians, but they were in number enough that one cannot reasonably assume that they were either a cultural aberration, or all insane.
It's always easy to celebrate the far-away deaths of a demonized enemy who has been conceptualized as sub-human. I expect that many within the United States will celebrate deaths of people in the Middle East when they occur.
I refer you to the Thuggee assassins who worshipped Kali, and the Sawi people of New Guinea, who as recently as 1962, when presented with the Christ story by missionaries, acclaimed Judas Iscariot the hero of the piece, since they idealized betrayal and murder.
Life expectancy must be remarkably short among their people.
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