# Insane Anti-Terrorist Idea #32: Kill The Families

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-anti-terrorist-idea-32-kill-the-families/83532>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 24, 2001, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-anti-terrorist-idea-32-kill-the-families/83532 "2001-09-24T18:23:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-anti-terrorist-idea-32-kill-the-families/83532/61 "2001-09-28T15:51:26Z")

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Oh, man, I hope I’m the first one and not the last one.

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**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-anti-terrorist-idea-32-kill-the-families/83532/62 "2001-09-28T16:29:30Z")

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Look, there is some _serious_ faulty logic going on in this thread. I’m going to point one thing out.

_There is no analogy to be drawn between Timothy McVeigh and these terrorists._ McVeigh was not an Islamic fundamentalist. McVeigh, as far as we know, was not taking orders from anyone else. He was not part of an international terrorist network. **He did not have the implicit support of his family, nor does his family have the support of aid organizations.** McVeigh’s family is not revered in their neighborhood as if they were the parents of an All-American defensive end.

Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and their families **ABSOLUTELY DO HAVE ALL OF THOSE THINGS**.

To enumerate, the families of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists enjoy the following:

1. Lifelong financial support _after_ the successful suicide attack of the family member.

2. Opitulation on the part of the local community and even local fame.

3. Acceptance, even encouragement, from some spiritual leaders.

This thread already has links to articles which show all of the above. These families are **beneficiaries of heinous criminal acts**.

So the next time someone wants to say, “yeah, did we kill Oswald’s family?” Why don’t you ask yourself, “gee, was Oswald’s family complicit in the crime and are they now making money off of his act?” The answer here in the United States, unless you are talking about members of mafia crime families, is **NO**.

You want to compare these terrorist bastards’ families to American families? All right,

[here is a list](http://organizedcrime.about.com/cs/crimefamilies1/)

of American families that are logical comparisons. We, the United States, harass these families mercilessly. Watch an episode of the Sopranos, for chrissakes! That’s the kind of people you’re dealing with, not “innocents.”

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-anti-terrorist-idea-32-kill-the-families/83532/63 "2001-09-29T02:27:53Z")

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**PL:**

[_smoooch_]

😃

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