We have imagined ourselves invulnerable and have been consumed by the pursuit of … health, wealth, material pleasures and sexuality… It [terrorism] is happening because God Almighty is lifting his protection from us. We have a court that has essentially stuck its finger in God’s eye. We have insulted God at the highest levels of our government. Then, we say, “Why does this happen?” It is happening because God Almighty is lifting His protection from us. This is God’s power and he sent this thing to warn us … we needed a shock.

Then Falwell said, “What we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact, God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.” Robertson replied, “Well, Jerry, that’s my feeling. I think we’ve just seen the antechamber to terror, we haven’t begun to see what they can do to the major population.” Falwell said, “The ACLU has got to take a lot of blame for this. And I know I’ll hear from them for this, but throwing God…successfully with the help of the federal court system…throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad…I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America…I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen.”

Twisted with hate, just like you said.

Regarding the quotation you gave from Arundhati Roy; the logic of the radical left often mirrors the logic of the radical right. As an example, when Hindu extremists demolished the Babri Masjid they said it was in retaliation for the excesses of Muslim rulers…what goes around comes around. According to Arundhati that is wrong, but killing Americans is alright because what goes around comes around.

The state of India has commited many crimes. If some psychopath decided to kill thousands of innocent New Delhites to avenge that in a September 11th style attack, no doubt she would say it was OK, that what goes around comes around. Alternatively, she could herself be killed in the same process, or one of her loved ones, and be free to reflect in heaven that its OK, my mother/husband/brother/myself deserved to be blown into one hundred pieces because I am part of a country/people/religion that “had it coming” and what goes around comes around…just like those pesky Muslims and Sikhs who were killed by the forces she opposes.

What a putrid statement.

As I said, the radical right and the radical left are closer to each other tahn they realise.

yeah…i don’t think halle berry’s body is QUITE as twisted with hate as arundhati roy’s is:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4266289,00.html

It must be hard for ordinary Americans, so recently bereaved, to look up at the world with their eyes full of tears and encounter what might appear to them to be indifference. It isn’t indifference. It’s just augury. An absence of surprise. The tired wisdom of knowing that what goes around eventually comes around.