[Milton-L] Samson as suicide bomber

[Dalian Tross]

There is a distinct difference between a "Nazarite" and a "Nazarene". Samson was the former.
 
--- On Sun, 5/10/09, Salwa Khoddam <skhoddam at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Salwa Khoddam <skhoddam at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [Milton-L]  Samson as suicide bomber
> To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
> Date: Sunday, May 10, 2009, 4:16 PM
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> Jeffery wrote: "The expression "Suicide
> Bomber" refers to anyone who blows 
> himself or herself up to kill others, usually in a
> terrorist act." Is 
> Samson a "terrorist"? Or a
> "freedom fighter," or "God's
> champion" 
> elected (he was a Nazarene) to avenge the tribe of Judah?
> Religion and Politics 
> were not separate for Samson nor for Milton (as supported
> by his political 
> pamphlets).
> Salwa Khoddam
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>   From: 
>   Horace 
>   Jeffery Hodges 
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> 10, 2009 1:00 AM
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>         Carrol Cox wrote:
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>           "'Suicide 
>           Bomber' refers, of course, to Arabs,
> who have replaced 'dirty 
>           commies' in the mythology of u.s. politics.
> But that is not the 
>           elephant but merely the context. The elephant is
> that, through 
>           discussing Samson in theological terms,
> one implies that the 
>           suicide 
>           bombers of the daily newspaper are acting
> or claiming to act 
>           from theological motives -- that they are
> religious fanatics. But they 
>           are acting from strictly secular motives, as a
> study of a year or so 
>           established: they represent frustrated
> nationalism!"
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>         The expression "Suicide Bomber"
> refers to anyone who blows himself 
>         or herself up to kill others, usually in a
> terrorist act. The bomber can 
>         be any ethnicity and any religion -- or even have
> no religion. 
>         Currently, most such bombers are Muslims
> radicalized by Islamism. They 
>         may act out of a combination of motives, but
> religion is certainly one 
>         of these. Moreover, regardless of the motivation,
> Muslims would be 
>         unlikely to engage in "suicide" attacks
> if these had not already been 
>         declared not acts of suicide and if these had
> not already 
>         been theologically justified by Islamists.
> According to such 
>         Islamists, the reward for the
> Muslim 'suicide' bomber is paradise 
>         -- which is why they are called by Islamists
> "martyrdom 
>         operations." Religion certainly plays a
> major role in the 
>         phenomenon, and it cannot be ignored.
>          
>         Jeffery Hodges
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