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Why Do Radical Muslims Want to Kill Europeans?
Hudson NY ^ | October 8, 2010 | Khaled Abu Toameh

Posted on 10/09/2010 10:36:49 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah

How true is it that Al-Qaeda's terror attacks around the world are directly linked to the Israeli-Arab conflict?

Some Middle East and terror "experts" have long maintained that the West's support for Israel was one of the main motivations behind the attacks of Al-Qaeda and other Islamic fundamentalist groups.

These "experts" have naively and foolishly endorsed Al-Qaeda Chief Osama bin Laden's argument that the terror attacks against the US and Western targets are the result of the Israeli-Arab conflict.

In the past, bin Laden justified his organization's attacks on Americans by citing continued US support for Israel as the main reason.

But now that it has been revealed that Al-Qaeda is also planning a new wave of terror attacks in Europe, it would be interesting to hear what excuse bin Laden would have this time.

If the Americans deserve to be murdered because of Washington's "bias" in favor of Israel, why are countries such as France, Britain and Germany -- which have, generally speaking, been very supportive of the Palestinians -- now on the black list of radical Islamic groups?

The Europeans are being targeted for the same reason the Americans are: for being "infidels" and enemies of Islam and for the Western values they represent. They are being targeted because of their failure to transform into Islamic countries. Those who think that solving the Israeli-Arab conflict will undermine Al-Qaeda and its allies do not know what they are talking about.

Bin Laden, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hizbullah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah are actually waging a war against Arabs and Muslims who are involved, directly and indirectly, in the Middle East peace process.

Al-Qaeda was established in 1989 in Afghanistan, and not in the West Bank and Gaza Strip or any Arab country.

Al-Qaeda was one of the by-products of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and not the creation of the Jewish state in mandatory Palestine in 1948.

Al-Qaeda was established with one goal in mind: to defeat the all the non-believers, including the US and its Arab, Muslim and Western allies.

Bin Laden and his friends want to kill Europeans not because of settlement construction in the West Bank ,or the blockade on the Gaza Strip; they want to kill Europeans because Europeans are not Muslims and have different values.

The Europeans need to understand that their support for Arabs in general and the Palestinians in particular will not help them avoid "punishment" by radical Muslims.

The policy of appeasing Muslim terror groups also will not help. On the contrary, each concession by the US and its allies to Al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hizbullah will be interpreted as a sign of weakness that will subsequently lead to more violence.

The only connection between the Muslim terrorists and the Middle East conflict is their dream of destroying Israel.

They want to destroy Israel not because they love the Palestinians, but because they regard Jews as "infidels."

They want to destroy Israel because they believe that all of Palestine is Muslim-owned land that belongs only to Muslims.

Those who think that solving the Israeli-Arab conflict will undermine Al-Qaeda and its allies do not know what they are talking about.

Bin Laden, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hizbullah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah are actually waging a war against Arabs and Muslims who are involved, directly and indirectly, in the Middle East peace process.

Renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have only increased the terror groups' appetite to carry out their schemes.

The only way to deal with the terror threat is by stepping up the war against Al-Qaeda, Taliban and other radical Islamic groups.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; binladen; europe; israel
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The Europeans are being targeted for the same reason the Americans are: for being "infidels" and enemies of Islam and for the Western values they represent. They are being targeted because of their failure to transform into Islamic countries. Those who think that solving the Israeli-Arab conflict will undermine Al-Qaeda and its allies do not know what they are talking about.

Bin Laden did NOT even mention the Palestinians til well after 9-11 when it became useful!

1 posted on 10/09/2010 10:36:54 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
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To: Ooh-Ah
Why Do Radical Muslims Want to Kill Europeans?

What else CAN they do? Based on the evidence they seem to love only two things, hating people and blowing stuff up. All this crap about their contributions amounts to zilch from boobs like Obama who think by kissing Muslim (hairy) butt they'll like us. They are good only at hate and messy explosions, that's all.

2 posted on 10/09/2010 10:40:48 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!--Dr. Strangelove)
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To: Ooh-Ah

Why Do Radical Muslims Want to Kill Europeans?
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Because they’re not muslim and the quran tells them to?


3 posted on 10/09/2010 10:45:16 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: Ooh-Ah

It has something to do with the constant inbreeding.


4 posted on 10/09/2010 10:49:35 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Ooh-Ah
Simple...because they have not yet converted to Islam or submitted in shame to the Jizya tax in subjugation to Islam.
5 posted on 10/09/2010 10:50:02 PM PDT by highlander_UW (Education is too important to abdicate control of it to the government)
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To: Ooh-Ah

The larger reason is that the elite want to bring anti Western Muslims into Europe so as to hasten the demise of the nation State & Western civilization in general in order to better implement their Global government.


6 posted on 10/09/2010 10:54:39 PM PDT by Republic_of_Secession.
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To: Ooh-Ah

By the way....

When massive, government-funded studies and endless pontification and speculation by the best and brightest minds our culture can produce ultimately derive an answer for this question...

They will still want to kill us.


7 posted on 10/09/2010 11:03:24 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder ("No longer can we make no mistake for too long". Barack d****it 0bama, 2009, 2010, 2011.)
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To: Republic_of_Secession.
The larger reason is that the elite want to bring anti Western Muslims into Europe so as to hasten the demise of the nation State & Western civilization in general in order to better implement their Global government.

And, one supposes that these 'elites' will somehow get the Islamics under some form of control so that they can thereafter implement 'their' global gooberment? Got news for these pinheads. The Islamics have a plan of their own, and it doesn't include the 'elites' in any position of power...

the infowarrior

8 posted on 10/09/2010 11:07:32 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: Ooh-Ah

They want to destroy any non-Islamic nation, for starters. But more than that it is intolerable to them that any non-Muslim should be successful.

The overwhelming fact that Western Civilization and Judeo-Christian religious belief system, together has resulted in a wildly successful Europe and North America, all the while the Islamic part of the world has been unable to keep up technologically and materially, generally infuriates Muslims. So they want to destroy us.

The Israeli-Arab conflict has nothing to do with their angst.

Muslims are horrified at the comparisons between their lack of scientific advances compared to the rest of the world.


9 posted on 10/09/2010 11:13:02 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Ooh-Ah
Does it matter? They want to kill us. How do we respond?

I suggest a dose of salts and maybe some lead.

If they think they can win, they need to come play in Texas. Not so pretty for the other team.

/johnny

10 posted on 10/09/2010 11:15:47 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Irenic

Yep, it does tell them to.


11 posted on 10/09/2010 11:21:14 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
They will still want to kill us.

Just as the wolf in Aesop's fable of The Wolf and the Lamb

12 posted on 10/09/2010 11:21:20 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: JRandomFreeper
and maybe some lead.

And possibly a few glass parkinglot paving devices.

13 posted on 10/09/2010 11:24:29 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: Darkwolf377

They hate us because WE don’t know why they hate us.

(im jus saying’) So if we knew why they want to kill us, would the killing stop?

I’m confused.

God bless Ronnie Barratt. Keep on keeping on.


14 posted on 10/09/2010 11:25:09 PM PDT by kennyboy509 (Let us eat cake.)
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To: Ooh-Ah
Why Do Radical Muslims Want to Kill Europeans?

Because they can. Also political correctness and rules of engagement prevent formerly adept nations from bombing them into oblivion.

Perhaps its the jihadi narcissist way of showing their expertise with swords, stones, box cutters, underwear and shoe bombs? Nations thus far are reacting with submission and welcoming them to get a strong foothold into cities and nations worldwide, and using international legal systems against the cities and nations to further their conquering of the world.

15 posted on 10/09/2010 11:27:37 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: Ooh-Ah

Europe is the low hanging fruit. Don’t worry, they’ll get to everyone else eventually.


16 posted on 10/09/2010 11:30:09 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: kennyboy509

They keep killing us so we’ll have a reason to hate them, which will then give them an EXCUSE to hate us! :P


17 posted on 10/09/2010 11:31:31 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!--Dr. Strangelove)
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To: Darkwolf377

Terrorism is a tactic. They do it because it seems to be so effective towards their desired end, which is to bend our will to theirs. In a sense I think it is true that they do it because we don’t know why they do it. If we responded IN KIND, with the slightest fraction of our capability, it would take all the fun out of it for them, but this is anathema to us.


18 posted on 10/09/2010 11:45:31 PM PDT by dr_lew
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SNIPPET from post no. 1:


"The Europeans are being targeted for the same reason the Americans are: for being "infidels" and enemies of Islam and for the Western values they represent. They are being targeted because of their failure to transform into Islamic countries. Those who think that solving the Israeli-Arab conflict will undermine Al-Qaeda and its allies do not know what they are talking about."

19 posted on 10/09/2010 11:55:08 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Darkwolf377
Islam is a cult founded upon hate, lies and death. It serves the spirit of anti Christ.
20 posted on 10/10/2010 12:06:36 AM PDT by Armaggedon
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