[Guillermo]

You got it.

Also, it's hard to defend the modern West. Mohammedans look at the West and see homosexuality, abortion, drunkenness, drug usage and immorality all around.

I'd hate America too if I was one of them.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Also, it's hard to defend the modern West. Mohammedans look at the West and see homosexuality, abortion, drunkenness, drug usage and immorality all around."

This angle fascinates me because many of the Christians who are the most anti-Islamic share many of the Islamist critiques about the corruption of modern Western society. And, ironically, the liberals who are most likely to make excuses for Muslim extremism ("why they hate us") rarely mention these issues - they talk about Israel, oil, etc., but never admit that sexual permissiveness, alcohol use, etc., give fuel to the Islamists' rage. But it seems to me that from a traditional Christian point of view, Islam cannot be faught only - or even primarily - with weapons, but by returning to Christian values. It seems that the rise of Islamic rage has coincided very neatly with the decline of Christian values in the West.

[Iron Matron]

I'd hate America too if I was one of them

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It sounds like you already do.