Terrorism's root causes

http://jewishworldreview.com/0705/thomas_terrorism_root.php3 ^ | July 12, 2005 | cal Thomas

[mal]

British politicians and much of the U.K. media are engaged in a familiar Western practice following a terrorist attack. They think they can explain it using Western standards.

Many Americans blamed the race riots of the 1960s on racism and unemployment, which contributed to hopelessness they said only equality and prosperity could solve. That most unemployed blacks did not riot escaped the mainly white sociologists and commentators who desired a "nonjudgmental" explanation for lawless behavior. Having abandoned a sense of personal responsibility for one's actions, the explainers and excusers of evil and illegal acts in America 40 years ago have been reincarnated in Britain.

[Earthdweller]

Why can't we stop examining our own navel for a minute and see these extremists for who they are.

Irony of all ironies..although impoverished, they are crusaders.

[gridlock]

Unfortunately, simply saying "Hooray for our side" is seen as a sign of knuckle-dragging bigotry by the sophisticates in our society. But when our side is based on freedom, tolerance, and Judeo/Christian values, and the other side is a barking moonbat death cult, I have no problem with "Hooray for our side". In fact, anything else is just plain stupid.

[lionheart 247365]

Terrorism's Root Causes ;

ISLAM , ISLAM ,ISLAM .. .. ..

[Tolik]

Cal Thomas:

...No amount of G8 aid to the "Palestinians," nor a resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, will pacify these current and potential killers. Even if Israel were obliterated (the goal of much of the Muslim world), the terror would continue until the entire non-Islamic world is under their control.  

This is not the belief of an "Islamophobic" bigot. This is what they say in their sermons and media, teach in their schools, and believe in their hearts. It matters little that "the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists," to quote a familiar Western mantra. It matters a great deal that most terrorists are Muslims. The sooner Western leaders and Western media begin stating what is obvious to most people; the quicker the real root cause can be dealt with.  

The excuses given by Westerners and many Muslim clerics for terrorism are just that: excuses. 

If Britain and the West are guilty of failing to adequately address the "oppression" of Muslims in Kashmir and Chechnya, do they earn points for intervening in Bosnia to protect Muslims and sending billions to the Palestinian Authority, money that went down a rat hole of corruption?  

Do America and Britain win friends among Muslims for allowing them to practice their faith openly (no Muslim country offers the type of religious tolerance that Muslims enjoy in the U.S. and Britain). Why must America and Britain be held accountable for every perceived and actual slight against Muslims, but beheadings of Westerners receive little more than pro forma condemnation and are soon forgotten?  

More than 25 years ago, then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously noted that we in the West make a mistake when we transpose our morality on those who don't share it. Terrorists do not share and cannot be made to share our morality.  

There will be no detente, entente or peace treaty between the forces of darkness and those of light. As much as Western politicians may wish to avoid the true root cause of this war, they do so at the peril of their citizens. This is a religious war. The terrorists understand it as such. Too many in the secular and wimpishly religious West do not.

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[machman]

Yup, can't add much to that. The "root cause" is a guy born about the year 570 in Mecca.

[xzins]

Thomas is correct. There is no non-moslem nation bordering a moslem country that is safe. The is no multi-religion nation that includes moslems that does not suffer attacks. There is no western nation that is not a target of moslems.

Call it like it is. Islam is a religion that believes in expansion by violence.

[livius]

This is a religious war. The terrorists understand it as such. Too many in the secular and wimpishly religious West do not.

Well, he's certainly summed it up. The thing that completely mystifies me is how they (the Muslims) can proclaim to the four winds that it is a religious war, and we keep blithely assuring them and ourselves that it is not. What more do they need to do to convince us?

[veronica]

Call it like it is. Islam is a religion that believes in expansion by violence.

I'd go further. It's not a religion, it's a cult. Jim Jones Kool-Aid drinkers.

[GOPJ]

Muslim values are different from ours and IMHO it goes back to cultural myths. The most powerful myth deals with the story of Abraham. When God asked him to sacrifice his son, he agreed. And the story of the father's willingness to kill his son, without question, became twisted. The place in Mecca Muslims must visit is Abraham's house. Each Imam isn't a God, but they wield authority beyond anything a westerner can imagine.

An Imam can sentence a person to death. It's the equivalent of every parish priest having the authority of a judge and jury. An Iman granted UBL the right to nuke us. And there are thousands of them...

In our cafeteria way of dealing with religion (where everyone picks and chooses the parts of the Bible (or any other religious book) that they want to stress - Muslims chose this part. The part that reinforces blind authority. By tradition that authority has been transferred to every two bit Mosque idiot. That power has a choke hold on Muslim cultures. It's also the reason they have suicide bombers and we don't. It's culturally supported. (Did you know the place in Mecca where all Muslims must go is the place where Abraham was asked to kill his son?)

[GOPJ]

Muslim values are different from ours and IMHO it goes back to cultural myths. The most powerful myth deals with the story of Abraham. When God asked him to sacrifice his son, he agreed. And the story of the father's willingness to kill his son, without question, became twisted. The place in Mecca Muslims must visit is Abraham's house. Each Imam isn't a God, but they wield authority beyond anything a westerner can imagine.

An Imam can sentence a person to death. It's the equivalent of every parish priest having the authority of a judge and jury.

In our cafeteria way of dealing with religion (where everyone picks and chooses the parts of the Bible (or any other religious book) that they want to stress - Muslims chose this part. The part that reinforces blind authority. By tradition that authority has been transferred to every two bit Mosque idiot. That power has a choke hold on Muslim cultures. It's also the reason they have suicide bombers and we don't. It's culturally supported.

[SJackson]

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[Convert from ECUSA]

Right-on, Tolik! Thanks for posting this!

[theFIRMbss]

>much of the U.K. media are engaged in a familiar Western practice following a terrorist attack. They think they can explain it using Western standards

In another thread
that never sprouted I made
the following points:

>What Some Don't Get About Terrorism
>>Tibor hits again!

No, I think he missed.
Terrorism is a tool.
The US sponsored

anti-Soviet
insurgents around the globe.
It didn't matter

what the "tribes" believed.
And, globally, their "passions"
were irrelevant.

Insurgents were used
to weaken the Soviet
economy, and

demoralize the
Soviet people. It worked.
Terrorism worked.

The Soviets failed
at fighting all the small wars
we set up for them,

their economy
collapsed, and the "Union" fell.
Terrorism worked.

Now, either the groups
have organized themselves, or
someone's pulling strings

and using this tool
back against the Western World.
And the question is

will the Western World
buckle like the Soviets
financially and

crumble as a bloc?
It took just a few decades
to wear down the Reds . . .

[little jeremiah]

Bump this whole thread. People who are not sure need to read it.

Since its inception, followers of Islam have routinely practiced rapine, looting, slaughter, enslavement and forced conversion.

The only reason there's more than a small handful of Muslims is because of forced conversion, and then the forced converts having children. That, and currently, US prison converts.

All Muslims east of Saudi Arabia are the descendents of those who were forced to convert.

[little jeremiah]

Bump this whole thread. People who are not sure need to read it.

Since its inception, followers of Islam have routinely practiced rapine, looting, slaughter, enslavement and forced conversion.

The only reason there's more than a small handful of Muslims is because of forced conversion, and then the forced converts having children. That, and currently, US prison converts.

All Muslims east of Saudi Arabia are the descendents of those who were forced to convert.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Why must America and Britain be held accountable for every perceived and actual slight against Muslims,

Our life, our TV broadcast to their region, our visits to their land, past military action going back to the crusades. There is no end to the things we have done to "anger"" them. Thus we will be guilty of angering them and have been for a long time. But the terrorism is recent, and it cannot be that their anger simply reached the breaking point.

My own conclusion is that the years of democrat military reductions finally convinced them that we were in the right mood for their attacks to succeed. They thought they would win and they still do.

[JZelle]

All I hear in this country is how dangerous Christianity is.