No mood rings and hula hoops were "FADS".This is protest of the HIGHEST order Medved.I still remember the shock all over America when the Buddhist monk in Vietnam poured gas over himself and sat without a move or a sound while his body burned in the public square. It certainly brought attention to the problems in Vietnam and it certainly was part of several incidents (the other that I remember is the Vietnamese General Doan? shooting the Viet Cong soldier in the head with his pistol)that helped to turn American opinion about the war.And yes this is a "heroic" gesture by a person and Obama was spot on to point that out.It solidifies public opinion.When the dust settles these Patriots will be properly heralded as heroes of their county

Does Israel also have that "death obsession" that you state the Muslims have? I believe they do but the ones they want DEAD are Arabs and Iranians.Hey when are you going to admit your a AIPAC hate monger a simple tool, a sellout who takes money in return for spreading your HATE Muslims message

What is the problem here? Let them keep killing themselves, as long as they don't kill anyone else. We need a lot more self-immolation in the Muslim world, not less.

Is invite some infidels over to watch, and bring some weiners and marshmallows.

Many Americans committed suicide last year either by there own hand or by something else or person (suicide by cop)? I wonder if this is just an middle east problem or a worldwide problem. I am willing to bet we had more suicide's than the middle east.

People here commit suicide out of a sense of desperation and hopelessness. Life just isn't worth living anymore. Radical Islam is a cult of death. They worship death. They commit suicide to go to whatever heaven their prophet promises them, and to kill as many infidels, ( or the wrong kind of muslims ) as they can while doing it. As Michael accurately quotes them, they love death more than we love life. They think they're going to spend eternity banging the brains out of 72 lovely young virgins. Imagine the disappointment when they find out it was a mistranslation. They get one 72 year old virgin. Imagine all eternity with Bella Abzug!

What leads you to believe Bella Abzug was a virgin?Of course Bella was also a Jew.If a Christian whack job stated that he loves death more then you love life I guess you would believe that he spoke for ALL Christians. Right?

Billy Boy that 72 Virgin thing relates to pleasures in the after life. One does not take the writings of the Koran or the Bible at face value.I mean do you really believe it was a bite of an apple that got Adam and Eve kicked out of paradise?Do you believe God made the Earth in 6 days?Come on Billy do something you don't do often,THINK!!

One word: Massada.

And they took their own lives rather than be tortured and killed or made slaves by the Romans. Leave it to the drooler to come up with somthing that idiotic.

....also took his own life as an act of desperation and made a political point of it. It seemed to work too.

Did Ghandi, MLK, or the American Founding Fathers light themselves on fire? No. While it may be the "hottest" protest craze, self-immolation (aka suicide)a Martyr does not make. If something’s worth fighting for, than stand up and fight for it without fear of consequence. That’s why we have running hot water and ballot booths and the Vietnamese & N Koreans are still in the 50's under Communist oppression.

Most of the populated world has NO electric,no telephone and lots of people dying young.Most of the world is NOT Communist.Obviously you fail to understand how a minority can defeat a overwhelming majority. Yes you could stand and fight and be quickly annihilated of you could have a slim chance of winning by using other means and this includes self immolation.

to take a cheap shot at Islam. Vietnamese did the same thing during the US war against Vietnam, Japanese had Kamakazis during WW2. How many Unemployed Americans commit suicide in a year? Dead is dead... whether you burn yourself or jump off a bridge. Medved eagerly takes a quote from a mentally ill Muslim and tries to apply it to over a billion people. Pathetic.

The problem kind of is rooted in one mentally ill (first Muslim) still applying his insanity and oppression over a billion people. Wake up and smell the Jihad! Do you like yours regular, or extra crispy?

Those darling peace loving moooslims who commit mass murder somewhere in the world every day of the year, who rate dogs higher than women and consider it "honorable" to kill a disobedient wife or daughter, who sexually mutulate young girls, who kill homosexuals. And isn't it cute how announced athiests who lie and claim they defend others' human rights always have something hateful to say about Christians but always rush to the defense of this hideous death cult? Not surprising at all once you understand liberals. Once you accept the fact that they are clinically insane, everything they say and do makes perfect sense. Until you accept that fact, nothing they say or do ever makes any sense.

I have yet to see somebody supporting justifying mass murder in the name of Islam here. When somebody does, I'll let them have it too. Meanwhile I will point out the hypocrisy of those than seem to think their religions do not do bad things.

BTW, Bill have you been following what id going on in Uganda re: Christan treatment of gays? This is being done it seems with the tacit approval of certain religious types in our government. Just look up The Family, Uganda, and gay.

For thousands of years, using whatever excuse is handy. If some groups identified as "Christians" are committing atrocities against other groups who are likewise committing atrocities, it's nothing new. It's rarely about religious differences. It's usually about grabbing what the others have, and either killing or enslaving them. Only radical islam mass murders people for the sin of holding the wrong religious views. And the left that hates Christians are always quick to defend Islam. But then, the left has always adored mass murderers and torturers.

...but after reading some of the comments, if radical Islam is "all about death" and going to "their happy place".....then why do the procreate in the first place? Why don't they just all blow themselves to "wherever" and be done with it?!

When we read about muslim mothers who rejoice at the prospect of their teenage sons going off on a "mission", with an explosive belt wrapped around him and detonating it, blowing himself to smithereens and taking as many infidels as possible with him. What kind of a mother rejoices at the death of her son? What insanity? What kind of animals are these, anyway? What kind of conditioning does it take to create monsters like that? Throughout history, mothers' hearts break when their sons go off to war, praying every day that he come home alive and in one piece. Maybe they breed to secure their place in what they imagine to be heaven, by producing as many killers as possible.

Your views on Islam are an idiot's caricature.

Are you sure that those Muslim mothers actually rejoice at their sons killing themselves? Are you positive this is accurate information or could it be propaganda used on idiots like you to dehumanize the Muslim people. remember we were told that our pilots might be EATEN by Iraqi captors if they were shot down during Gulf war 1 and that Iraq soldiers had killed babies in Kuwait. Billy Boy your a naive idiot who is just a lapdog to your handlers. Now GO FETCH!

Bill, the junkyard dog, furiously barking away. Bill's incessant barking doesn't reveal his toughness -- Bill barks out of fear.

When Bill can't blame his fear on 'mooslims', he tries to blame it on 'libruuls'. When he's still frightened, he blames his paralyzing, self-defecating fear on the little 'boy' in the White House. This is the totality of what Bill's retirement years have become.

Bill is so paralyzed with fear, he is not going to be of any use to anybody. He is too busy protecting the junk yard that is his selfish, petrified existence.

So when you come to the blog looking for a conversation, it will be necessary to just block out that barking dog. He is incapable stopping. He is frightened (of everything). Don't worry, he is just a frightened dog.