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Yes, I thought about Russia's suffering after I hit the post button. They are not part of "The West," strictly speaking, so I wasn't really thinking about them in terms of the article being discussed. Good point.

The specific fatwa Osama bin Laden issued in 1998 specified two groups he thought it justifiable to annihilate—Americans and Jews, what he called the Crusader-Zionist alliance or some such garbage.

I don't care what anyone says about the good Islamic religion; when you can have free-lance, self-appointed mullahs issuing broad-based death threats against mass segments of humanity in the name of Allah/God, something is very, very wrong.

I am not aware of recent terrorist attacks on Italy and Germany by Al-Qaeda. Perhaps you can refresh my memory.

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By Al-Qaeda, no. By other Muslim terrorists in the last decade, yes. The name of group is irrelevant. All of these terrorist groups train together, are funded by the same people, and share resources. If one is guilty they're all guilty.