Lots of people use Christianity to further their own ends, just look at Sunday morning TV and all the "evangelists" that will save your soul for a dollar.
There are lots of handy quotes in the Bible that can be twisted or taken out of context to fool people.
Ditto for the Koran as has been shown. It can be used to fool a lot of people into doing things they ordinarily wouldn't.
So Islam is being used as handy tool to further someone's ambitions, i.e., to set up an "Islamic" hegemony. Useful idiots are now being duped on a supra-national scale.
What do we care were the motivations of the people driving the airplanes? They're dead. It's the ones that sent them that our are enemies. It's the motivation of the ones who duped others into suicidal mass murder that we have to consider in our response to prevent such things from happening again. President Bush is dead on target when he says the target is our Liberty!
The beacon of our freedom, the shining light of our liberty is indeed what our enemies hate. Our enemy is not Islamic Fundamentalism, words put into President Bush's mouth. Our enemy is those who hide behind Islam to further their own ambitions of power.
Support of Israel is NOT the primary reason the US was attacked, though it makes handy smoke screen to fool their followers and others who won't think.
No, our enemies are those that want an Islamic super state, One Nation under Islam. Who opposes them? Who could keep them from achieving their goal? Principally, the people in the countries they want to "unite" who don't relish living under a despotic totalitarian government.
And really, the "Islam" part is just a pretense with our enemies, similar to the dialectic materialism of our earlier enemies. Our enemies will ALWAYS be those that want to rule people in order to have power. Whether it's "Islam" or "Communism" that they use to manipulate the masses is immaterial. The end result is going to be the same, despotism.
The principal obstacle to the plans of any totalitarian despot is the shining example of a people living free. (Where those people are, I don't know but the USA comes closest of any.)
Despots can't maintain their control over a people who can look and see something much better elsewhere. Consider Berlin and the wall built to keep people from the "worker's paradise" from fleeing to West Berlin.
Despots have an example of what happens when you leave liberty's light shining, in the recent demise of the USSR. The new ones are learning from the old one's example.
So, to achieve their goals, they need to extinguish our light. They've attacked us and are waiting for us to diminish our liberty. And we're obliging; Tom Ridge is no friend of the Second Amendment, the linchpin of our freedoms.
Of course our enemies don't tell their people it's America's freedoms that are the enemy. That truth would set their people free! The would be depots want to dupe their people into giving them power, so they use the authority of the Koran to build the boogieman of religion and "Israel" and Israel's chief helper the decadent, tool of satan USA to enflame their troops.
As long as the beacon of freedom and opportunity shines brightly from the USA, would be depots will not prosper. By the very virtue of our existence, the USA stands between every would be despot and their goal, hence their hatred and their attacks.
But there is a very real and present danger of teaching millions more to hate us. We can do so by indiscriminate attacks on the people of Afghanistan and other dupes. The people aren't our enemy. They are our brothers with similar hopes and dreams caught in a bad situation. It's those who want to use "Islamic Unification" to put themselves in power that are our enemies. They are the ones that hate Liberty's Light and seek to snuff it. So, let's go get them. President Bush is spot on target in identifying the motives of our enemies - to destroy our Liberty. I pray he aims our military power just as truly.
By the way, this hatred of light (good) is nothing new. We see it in our personal relationships. We see it among countries. We see it in the spiritual world as well:
"And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved." - John 3:19,20
