"one of them telling the audience: "We are at war. It's time for brothers, sisters and children to prepare. Prepare as much as you can. Whether they are sticks or stones or bombs. Prepare as much as you can, to defeat them. To terrorise them. That is what the message of Mohammed was. Just by terrorism alone."
Mohammed was a terrorist. They admit to it. Any questions as to why islam needs to be eradicated?
"Other groups are taking off that have no real link to al-Qaeda. "
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This is the frightening part-- these cells are all over the place and work in anonymity,even from eachother.
The same host that gives them decent jobs so they can live not beg, medicine so their brothers and sisters can live not perish; they enjoy mobile phones, iPods, laptops and other gadgets, which the society they want to establish could not and cannot invent and hardly can even reproduce.
This is beyond comprehension.
This was true of radicals in the 70's as well - they were largely educated, reasonably wealthy if not downright rich, and bored to death by conventional society. That is not to say they were not murderous and dedicated - they were, after the manner of destructive children. But they built nothing. That wasn't their thing, and that isn't the thing of their contemporary Islamist counterparts. When the latter do build something it turns out to be an armed camp and a prison - Afghanistan under the Taliban. When the former built something it was Cambodia under Pol Pot. Neither turned out to be the promised utopia.
Funny. I thought it was so we would know where to aim.