bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals) (03/10/86)
In article <5091@alice.uUCp> bart@alice.UucP (Bart N. Locanthi) skribis: >does anyone out there >know what the official moslem position on suicide is? Well, I don't know what their position on "I don't like the world, so I'll just hang out on this tree here until I die." is, but if there happens to be a Jihad (~holy war) going on (and there always seems to be, doesn't it?), then if you die while fighting the war (ie driving a truck loaded with explosives into the airport terminal), then you're guaranteed a good time in heaven or something along those lines... It suffices to say that they think that in terms of ways to die, it's the bee's knees... -- I'm PROUD to be a CARBON-BASED lifeform! andy beals bandy@lll-crg.arpa {ihnp4,seismo,ll-xn,qantel,sun}!lll-crg!bandy LLNL, P.O. Box 808, L-419, Livermore CA 94550 (415) 423-1948