"Wanna' bet Osauma watched for at least 15 years before 9-11 and never grinned even once?"
I wish everyone would read Hillaire Belloc, the great historian of the early 20th century. He predicted that Islam was lying low and was far from dead, and that it would rise again to attack the West. Belloc was right on the money. What is really going on in our generation is an extention of the Crusades.
Students of history will know that the early Crusades were victorious, as the Christians took back Jerusalem from the belligerent Mohamedans, and the route to the Holy City for Christian pilgrims was once again safe. But later on the Crusades ended in failure, for various reasons, and Islam took back the Holy City and other places once held by the Crusaders. But what happened long after the Crusades ended and the middle ages passed was that the West 'invaded' Islam in a different way, and conquered them economically. The last couple hundred years saw the West grow in leaps and bounds in technology, while the Middle east and other Islamic areas stagnated in technology, military strength and economic stability. The West could now overshadow Islam in every way imaginable. Hence, Islam sees this new kind of dominance as a continuation of the Crusades, and so they fight us at every turn.
If you notice, the Islamic terror attacks are not really aimed at defeating us by killing us off in massive numbers, but is primarily aimed at destroying us economically - they seek to undermine the foundation of our present superiority over them.
There were seven crusades. Only the first one achieved any success for "Christian" forces.
The remaining six were rife with corruption, murder, rape, and perversion - at least half of which was performed by "Christian" mercinaries.
On one of the crusades, over 30,000 young boys (not men - ages six to 13) were recruited as "Holy Warriors" by Rome to carry out the Crusades.
They were loaded up in boats, and set sail for Israel.
They never made it. ALL of them were sold into slavery in Northern Africa.
The Crusades were neither holy nor were they successful.
Not a contemporary but nonetheless a highly modern voice is that of Friedrich Nietzsche, the "posthumous" man who inhabited a world post-God and beyond Good and Evil. His critique of ressentiment - the "self-poisoned mind" of resentment - fits Islam like a glove. For Nietzsche, the repressed emotion of ressentiment leads at length to an entire falsified worldview, a whole revalued code of values, a complete morality based upon sour grapes, vindictiveness, delusions of grandeur and an embittered sense of helpless inferiority. The envied enemy is hated for his superior virtues, which are transformed by the alchemy of ressentiment into objects of loathing.
. http://www.hvk.org/articles/1101/168.html