Where are the Fatwas calling for death to Osama, for example?
I have taken part in a lot of anti terrorist operations, and the aim is to destroy the terrorist and the chances of there being any further terrorist groups arising.
The most important aim of the terrorist is to identify his act with a political or religious cause, this is intended to cause dissension and hopefully divert effort from attacking the terrorist into attacking the host or target population in this case the Muslim population of the world
re : Where are the Fatwas calling for death to Osama, for example?
He attacked America, America will deal with him, the calling of Fatwas are usually done by some Islamic group more to get publicity than anything else.
If we aim to destroy the terrorist we can win if on the other hand we widen this war to include Islam we could be in for a nasty brutal long war, which as well as causing the deaths of many on both sides, will be a complete waste of time.
We have lived with Islam for a long time, yes they are not as tolerant as us, but most of the Islamic population live in very brutal countries they live a subsistent life style.
We in the West have not bothered with the type of governments these people live under, if they are bad Dictators like Saddam we demonise them, they are our dictators like the Saudi Royal family we support them, they are just as brutal.
If Islam is the enemy once we have struck back we should pull out of that whole region, it is there’s any how. Let them fight each other, and they will, there is a lot of regional Arab Nationalist resentment for each other and Iran
If we want to deal with them, and get cheap oil of them, instead of demonising the religion we should be supporting the move towards more democratic reforms.
Tony