A new post with a different, the original, theme: Obsession, not necessarily only in Arabs.
I have read an interview with a German (failed) suicide bomber. Steven Smyrek went to Israel in 1997 to blow himself up (acting for Hisbollah). He now sits in an Israeli prison and is among the 400 prisoners that might come free for 3 dead Israeli soldiers.

He says he is not antisemitic and does not hate Jews at all. But, says he, he wants to become a martyr for Hisbollah for then he comes into the paradise at once.

The mindset of religious fanatics will always be a puzzle for me. "The sooner the Germans learn that there is only one best religion the better for them," a recent anonymous leaflet said.

Wolfgang