Word: maiming
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...because it was saving you from yourself but because it had to save others from you. The problem wasn't you getting smallpox; the problem was you giving smallpox to others if you got it. Society cannot tolerate that. We forced vaccination even though we knew it would maim and kill a small but certain number of those subjected...
Since Sept. 11, 2001, two ideas about Islam have become axiomatic: that Americans need to know more about the religion and that "moderate" Muslims in the U.S. and other Western societies need to reclaim their faith from those who kill and maim in its name. With that background, it might seem churlish to cavil at a serious attempt to address both needs. But there is something about the PBS documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (Dec. 18, 9 p.m. E.T.) that doesn't convince...
Even if things turn out well in Iraq, Islamic terrorists will still be around, still able to kill and maim. Says Omar Bakri, who is based in London and is the leader of the radical Islamic Al-Muhajiroun youth movement, "The message was so clear in Bali--it is a war against the disbelievers' camp." A French investigator puts the terrorists' chilling beliefs in stark terms. "They really, truly don't care about which Westerner they murder," he says. "Just so long as an enemy is dead." In Bali, where a precise count of the charred bodies...
...truth, as difficult as that may be for some of us. By refusing to acknowledge the realities of Ariel Sharon’s gruesome colonial war, we are complicit in these crimes. Our nation must stop turning the other way every time our friends in the Middle East dehumanize, maim, or murder their Palestinian neighbors. Even friends need to know when to draw the line...
...fundamentalists in their goals: they support the idea of a free Palestine living in peace beside Israel and say they want only to force Israel to allow that state to rise up. But for now, nationalists and fundamentalists are united in their strategy, which is to kill and maim as many Israelis as possible and to horrify and demoralize those who go unscathed...