Sometimes i hear something that makes me take a step back and appreciate different people can be. Today, it was a story on npr about islamic radicals in gaza. Choice quote:

Internet entrepreneur Ahmed al Rafa-tee was not lucky enough to get a warning. One morning, the 24-year-old arrived at the Internet cafe he owned to find that his business had been blown up.

A statement from Suf al Haq Islamiya, or “The Swords of Islamic Righteousness,” claimed responsibility for the attack. The group said they were “implementing the rule of God” and called shops like Rafa-tee’s “dirty, corrupted” businesses that make youth “slaves of the devil mind,” an apparent reference to online games and porn.

“They think these Internet shops are wasting the time of the youth, keeping them away from praying, from liberating Palestine, from Jihad,” Rafa-tee said.

Rafa-tee calls the Swords group irrational. He says he had Internet filtering software in his now-destroyed cafe to block out porn sites.

Holy fuck! Online video games and porn keep kids from Jihad! This has got to be one of the best reasons to let your kids raid one more fortress or slip them the latest issue of playboy. It just blows my mind. Video games and porn are instruments of peace. who would have thought . . .

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