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So, prior to 9/11, Bin Laden and his band of merry men were just a social club. It was the all powerful Bush that tricked them into crashing those party planes. And, terrorists didn't exist before Bush. And Bush this and Bush that.
That's the biggest amount of BS i've read in a long time.
This is such baloney.
If it was the future and the world could somehow cut Israel off the actual continent of the ME and make it an island in the ocean, then rebuild a place for the Palestinians in the same spot that Israel was removed , OBL and those in his likeness would still be at war with the West.
He wants his totalitarian ideology to rule the ME and the world. Period.
What a misguided statement. The radical islamists have repeatedly stated that their goal is a universal Caliphate and all governments will be submissive to that Caliphate or die. The Caliphate is totalitarian and exists because of tyranny. That is the real truth. Reuters always photoshops it's articles as well as it's photos.
The Muslim Brotherhood
aka Jamiat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by a schoolteacher, with the goal of celebrating traditional Islamic family values. The Brotherhood is ostensibly like any other semi-political fraternal club: the Elks, the Moose, the Lions, the Rotary, the Masons. Except a lot more like the Masons than the Elks. And maybe a little more like al Qaeda than the Masons.
The Muslim Brotherhood first formed in Egypt, where it has been mostly banned since its creation. The ban may have something to do with the fact that the Brotherhood has been tied to at least half a dozen attempts to assassinate whoever happened to be president of Egypt at the time. Hassan al-Banna, the teacher who founded the group, was a Wahabbi Sunni Muslim. Wahabbism is an extremely strict form of Islam, not dissimilar to the brand pushed by the Taliban.
The most absurd statement is that the rise of Islamist movements is "non-religious in nature". What planet is he on?
Pan-Arab nationalism goes back more than 40 years to Nasser of Egypt. Further, this nationalism does not exclude jihadist fanaticism -- in fact it encourages it.
This is the old chestnut that the poor fanatics are only responding to our reaction to THEIR acts of terrorism.
I've seen convoluted reasoning before --- but is takes the prize!
They have been trying to subjugate the rest of the world for 1300 years and have caused untold misery and rivers of innocent blood to flow on every continent.
They kicked off the latest round of this war by attacking us and murdering innocent thousands of us in our own country. If they want to be around at the end of it, they had better change their tune, fast. Otherwise, we'll be happy to oblige in their death-wish to glorify Allah Satan.
F**k 'em. Pass the ammo...
Experts say .... Analysts say .... Who are these unnamed people? I suggest they are figments of the author's imagination or are the terrorists supporters themselves.
The attacks on this country have been steadily building since 1979 and would have increased even more had Bush not responded as aggressively as he did. At least they are fighting us over there, and fighting our military rather than innocent civilians, rather than here. This is just as planned.