What would you have been, if you were born in a terrorist family?

Question

Let's asume you would have been born in iraq and you were the son/daughter of one of those guys planning bomb attacks. For all your life you would have ben taught that what they do is the right thing, that god likes it, and whatever else they are teaching them. Do you think you would have realised it is wrong and tried to run away and start a new life elsewhere, or would you have done the same things your parents would be doing?

This is not ment to be offensive for any iraqian people, I'm just trying to prove how important the way you were taught since childhood is

tbac 122 : you missed the point

Answer 1

finally, a good question!!

in all honesty, as a child growing up into that family I would have sponged up all those lies and probably had a mac 10 machine gun by the time I was 11

I can only hope that somehow someone would intercept my life early enough for me to switch mental gears...Or maybe if there was an older person in that same family who can offer advice on an alternative kind of life...

Answer 2

Growing up in that society, origianlly I would have probably been pissed off and been planning attacks and participating in them. But seeing how the cultures and the attitude of the Iraqi people has changed over the past few years, I also think that I would be young enough and smart enough to see that things needed to change. I would like to think that I would have taken part in the "awakening" that is taking place in Iraq right now. I would hope that I would be smart enough to do that anyway, experiencing first hand both sides of the coin.

Answer 3

you and i would do exactly what they do, just like our grandparents did in world war 2. RAF bombers were too lightly armed and armoured to fly over Germany in daylight and too inaccurate to hit military targets by night. so we took the only option left to us and bombed the civilians just like the Americans did in japan. There really is no such thing as a terrorist just people defending themselves the only way they can. Upbringing will have something to do with it but the main thing is seeing country men and relatives suffer at the hands of another person. if someone raped or killed your mother or daughter wouldn't you want revenge. If your country was invaded and your people made to suffer would you help with the resistance. The french resistance were technically terrorists.

Answer 4

One man's hatred is another man's faith
One man's poison is another man's cake
.....By-Rupert Hine

First and foremost its wrong to brand the entire family as a 'terrorist family' due to action of one man because such families do not exist. Killings are wrong and shall be condemned but can you neglect the frustration of these people? Only serial murderers kill for fun. An American soldier is as much a terrorist to an Iraqi bomb planter as he is to them.

As for my choice...well, if my family had suffered badly I would not have remained a saint. But if without any provocation they were indulging in such activities in the name of religion or some pride then I would have been the first one to protest it.

After all I have always said to myself that Even if I am awarded the heaven (irrespective of its existence) and if its path was covered with innocent blood, i would shun it. And I mean it.

Nice question thoughAle. (dear, I have already given a star)

Answer 5

I believe that its called conditioning and everyone of us are conditioned in some way or the other. I will not condemn anyone for doing what they do, I see it as a mistake. I'm no terrorist but what I will say is this, if what I did 10yrs ago was right for me then but wrong for me know, why would I want to judge anyone for their actions of what i now consider to be wrong. And I agree with you totally about layers and layers of conditioning since early childhood.

Answer 6

Being on one side of the fence where my family or clan hurl bombs on the other side, it would be hard for me based on my affinity with my family and tribe and obvious religious fanaticism (which is inherent in Islamic tradition or faith) to disown what they believe in. Western traditions of democracy are alien to them, what more when you transplant that ideology into their country against their will which they will resist to death.

And so, if you asked me if I were born to a terrorist organization and what I would be like, I'd answer you that I would be like them to the finish.

Why? Because our concepts of morality, or religion, politics and tradition are diametrically opposed. I might make a difference if I were a son of a terrorists parents but educated in western countries. In that case, I might act as pacifier and peacemaker torn between the conflict..

Answer 7

You mean like at the Air Force Academy where Christians in the USA are taught to drop 2000 pound bombs into residential areas?

"...officers at the academy promoted evangelical Christian beliefs and were insensitive to cadets who were of a different religion or chose not to practice a faith. The allegations spurred a heated debate about the separation of church and state at the federally funded military school and caused a backlash among the chaplain community there."

Answer 8

Lets assume you were born in the US, and members of your family were in the military and involved in the "shock and awe" bombings of Iraqi neighborhoods. All your life you would have been told that being in the US military is the right thing. Would you realise that it is wrong?

It is the same thing. Killing is killing.

Answer 9

If I was born into a muslim family, I would run through the streets without any clothes just to anger the chauvinists. And then I'd claim asylum in a free country and expose the muslims for what they are. Kind of like the woman who wrote Infidel.

Answer 10

Great question. I am sure I would have been brainwashed if that is all I knew all my life. Actually, I am not that sure, because I have always had a mind of my own and strong beliefs, but it is probably America that gave me this quality.