[martywake]

"What does the Koran say about violence against civilians?"
Bin Laden has stated that, since America is a democracy, then the American people are responsible for what there government does.
Islam also provides for the killing of the enemies of Islam. But the bottom line is that the US has done more than any other nation to aid the Muslim peoples of the world. By doing so it has exposed the inadequacies of Islamic society and has "dishonored" these people.
Furthermore, after Somalia, Osama stated the the US was a paper tiger, and would run after being bloodied. Thus, he felt, he had an apt scapegoat for his impotent Islamic rage, and he felt safe in the fact that he could attack us and that we would allow it, even going so far as to blame ourselves for it.
This is how the Islamofacist terrorists see the world.

[Gucho]

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