The only problem is that when they terrorize each other it just seems to have provided a breading ground for creating terrorists. And it gives them another reason to hate us. It is a "no win" situation. They don't want to live like us, but if we accomodate them and keep them out, that will anger them too. If you want to hate, you can always find a reason.
10/13/2001 10:52:46 PM PDT
· 6 of 8 Leagle
to captain11
I know a very well educated and informed Pakistani man very well. He advises me that about 30% of Muslims are of the "fundementalist/anti-U.S." variety. That is about 300,000 people world wide. This appears to me to be the source of an essentially endless and permanent supply of motivated terrorists. I came to this conclusion in part because I researched the beliefs of Islam and I also just watched a documentary on MSNBC tonight entitled something like "Abandon All Hope" in which quite a number of captured terrorists from a large variety of middle easter contries were interviewed. They were being held by the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. These appeared to be the most ignorant, irrational, ill-informed and hatefull people I have ever seen. My 12 year-old said he didn't know people like that really existed. I am so afraid that this is just the beginning. Hopefully the "power trip" these people are currently experiencing it will turn out to be a sort of faddish social movement that loses momentum after a time, just as some others have. But it could be a very long time, like in Ireland and Israel.
