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Unfortunately, our enemies do not embrace these same values. Radical Islam is rooted in discrimination and intolerance, so much so that its followers consider the lives of all others—that is, anyone who doesn’t believe exactly what they believe—to be worthless. Supporters of Osama bin Laden view Westerners as “infidels,” and they do not acknowledge our right to exist on earth. Let me clarify: they will not be satisfied until every non-Muslim in the world is dead and their beliefs abolished...
Unfortunately, our enemies do not embrace these same values. Radical Islam is rooted in discrimination and intolerance, so much so that its followers consider the lives of all others—that is, anyone who doesn’t believe exactly what they believe—to be worthless. Supporters of Osama bin Laden view Westerners as “infidels,” and they do not acknowledge our right to exist on earth. Let me clarify: they will not be satisfied until every non-Muslim in the world is dead and their beliefs abolished...
Perhaps the most worrisome threat to U.S. agriculture is foot-and-mouth disease, which can spread with astonishing speed in sheep, cattle and swine. Not seen in this country since 1929, the disease is harmless to humans but renders farm animals economically worthless. The U.S. could be forced to destroy much of its own livestock, as Great Britain had to do earlier this year...
...middle school, I could finally admit that I had four older siblings—John among them. While I recognized that he was not an embarrassment, my classmates and close friends could never see him as more than a burden. They casually deemed anything they found silly, stupid, or worthless as “retarded.” “That movie was so retarded.” “You are such a retard.” Worse yet was when friends acted “retarded” through gesticulation. They would bend their wrists, slap...
...often as among the general population, were rejected by a big-circulation newsmagazine as so "implausibly horrendous it becomes comical." Yet poorer people are often transformed after they are diagnosed as depressed. Being told you are sick, he notes, is infinitely more cheering than being told you are worthless...