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Queen Guitarist Brian May Asks For Reasoning Why Terrorists Hate West
All Headline News ^ | 7-12-05 | Douglas Maher

Posted on 07/12/2005 9:13:05 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache

Queen Guitarist Brian May Asks For Reasoning Why Terrorists Hate West

Douglas Maher All Headline News Staff Reporter

July 12,2005 12:04 PM EST

London,UK (AHN)-Brian May,the guitarist for the legendary rock group Queen has made a comment regarding the recent terrorist attacks in London.

"I sense there is a mood of quiet resolve among the people I speak to. We are feeling that we must not go any further down the road of escalation...this is old stuff, but I personally feel that in the wake of 9/11 an opportunity was missed...to seek understanding rather than revenge." May told Launch Radio Networks on Monday.

"The Nelson Mandela way. I do not subscribe to this "War on Terrorism" slogan. I believe we have a need to secure a peaceful world for our children, and that it cannot be done by exerting our muscle internationally. It sure hasn't worked yet, has it?! It must be done by adjusting our behavior — we must stop playing 'Cowboys & Indians' - a self-damning phrase if ever there was one. I no longer believe we are the good guys. We must earn this view of ourselves, and start recognizing that there are other legitimate views of the world than ours."

May, an icon of sorts, did not stop there as he had plenty to offer in the way of words to the British government after the attacks that took place last week.

"So where do we go from here? Search everyone before they go on a bus? On a tube train? Walking down the street? This is the road to insanity...a climate of fear, which, sadly, the U.S.A. is already experiencing. It's time we attacked the cause rather than the symptoms. I want to see our politicians answer the question 'Why?' Why do people hate us this much? What can we do to change this? It's no use thinking we are dealing with a small bunch of maniacs, as seems to be the popular view, who need to be 'stamped out.'

"The reality is we are looking at a large number of entire countries of people to whom the American (and English) flag is a symbol of evil. Of selfishness and bullying imperialist aggression. This is what we must address. This is what we owe it to our children to do. In my opinion."

Queen has recently teamed up with former Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers to do a major tour of Europe and North America. Their latest round of UK shows were scrapped due to the terror attacks.


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To: My Favorite Headache
"We must earn this view of ourselves, and start recognizing that there are other legitimate views of the world than ours."

Like all cowards, he'd prefer to have somebody's elses views imposed on him than fight for his own, (if he has any). But to answer his question about hate; hate doesn't need a reason, it just needs a target.

21 posted on 07/12/2005 10:20:38 AM PDT by TheCrusader (("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" Pope Urban II)
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To: My Favorite Headache
"I sense there is a mood of quiet resolve among the people "

Oh its all about "feelings" isn't it guitar boy.

22 posted on 07/12/2005 10:21:22 AM PDT by subterfuge (Obama, momama...er Osama-Labamba, uh, bama...bananrama...URP!---Ted Kennedy)
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To: My Favorite Headache
"We must earn this view of ourselves, and start recognizing that there are other legitimate views of the world than ours."

Like all cowards, he'd prefer to have somebody's elses views imposed on him than fight for his own, (if he has any). But to answer his question about hate; hate doesn't need a reason, it just needs a target.

23 posted on 07/12/2005 10:21:55 AM PDT by TheCrusader (("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" Pope Urban II)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Muslims hate ALL non muslims.


24 posted on 07/12/2005 10:25:22 AM PDT by tkathy (Tyranny breeds terrorism. Freedom breeds peace.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

This could all be cured by A LTTLE MORE COWBELL!!

Yeah!

Come on, somebody help me out here. I gotta have some cowbell.


25 posted on 07/12/2005 10:28:25 AM PDT by subterfuge (Obama, momama...er Osama-Labamba, uh, bama...bananrama...URP!---Ted Kennedy)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Shut up and play yer guitar, Brian


26 posted on 07/12/2005 10:34:17 AM PDT by NRA1995 (West Virginia needs neurosurgeons like San Francisco needs gynecologists)
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To: Owl558

As the lead guitarist of a gay icon band he would be killed outright by them. Does he not realise that?


27 posted on 07/12/2005 10:38:56 AM PDT by Kelly_2000 (Because they stand on a wall and say nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch)
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To: My Favorite Headache
"I sense there is a mood of quiet resolve among the people I speak to. We are feeling that we must not go any further down the road of escalation...this is old stuff, but I personally feel that in the wake of 9/11 an opportunity was missed...to seek understanding rather than revenge." May told Launch Radio Networks on Monday.

Poor stupid guitarist. Here, Brian, is all you need to know:
** *AND THIS IS WHY THEY DID IT***

*by Amir Taheri*

*The Times [of London], Friday, **July 08, 2005** (pg. 25)*

Sent by Jay Smith (jsmith@dircon.co.uk) Sat, 09 Jul 2005 04:03:53 +0100

There is no way to reason with the terrorists, but the thinking behind their actions is perfectly clear

THE FIRST QUESTION that comes to mind is: what took them so long? The answer may be that in the past four years the British authorities have succeeded in preventing attacks on a number of occasions. David Blunkett, who was then Home Secretary, was often mocked for suggesting that this was the case.

It may take some time before the full identity of the attackers is established. But the ideology that motivates them, the networks that sustain them and the groups that finance them are all too well known.

Moments after yesterday’s attacks my telephone was buzzing with requests for interviews with one recurring question: but what do they want? That reminded me of Theo van Gogh, the Dutch film-maker, who was shot by an Islamist assassin on his way to work in Amsterdam last November. According to witnesses, Van Gogh begged for mercy and tried to reason with his assailant. “Surely we can discuss this,” he kept saying as the shots kept coming. “Let us talk it over.”

Van Gogh, who had angered Islamists with his documentary about the mistreatment of women in Islam, was reacting like BBC reporters did yesterday, assuming that the man who was killing him may have some reasonable demands which could be discussed in a calm, democratic atmosphere.

But sorry, old chaps, you are dealing with an enemy that does not want anything specific, and cannot be talked back into reason through anger management or round-table discussions. Or, rather, this enemy does want something specific: to take full control of your lives, dictate every single move you make round the clock and, if you dare resist, he will feel it his divine duty to kill you.

The ideological soil in which alQaeda, and the many groups using its brand name, grow was described by one of its original masterminds, the Pakistani Abul-Ala al-Maudoodi more than 40 years ago. It goes something like this: when God created mankind He made all their bodily needs and movements subject to inescapable biological rules but decided to leave their spiritual, social and political needs and movements largely subject to their will. Soon, however, it became clear that Man cannot run his affairs the way God wants. So God started sending prophets to warn man and try to goad him on to the right path. A total of 128,000 prophets were sent, including Moses and Jesus. They all failed. Finally, God sent Muhammad as the last of His prophets and the bearer of His ultimate message, Islam. With the advent of Islam all previous religions were “abrogated” (mansukh), and their followers regarded as “infidel” (kuffar). The aim of all good Muslims, therefore, is to convert humanity to Islam, which regulates Man’s spiritual, economic, political and social moves to the last detail.

But what if non-Muslims refuse to take the right path? Here answers diverge. Some believe that the answer is dialogue and argument until followers of the “abrogated faiths” recognise their error and agree to be saved by converting to Islam. This is the view of most of the imams preaching in the mosques in the West. But others, including Osama bin Laden, a disciple of al-Maudoodi, believe that the Western-dominated world is too mired in corruption to hear any argument, and must be shocked into conversion through spectacular ghazavat (raids) of the kind we saw in New York and Washington in 2001, in Madrid last year, and now in London.

That yesterday’s attack was intended as a ghazava was confirmed in a statement by the Secret Organisation Group of al-Qaeda of Jihad Organisation in Europe, an Islamist group that claimed responsibility for yesterday’s atrocity. It said “We have fulfilled our promise and carried out our blessed military raid (ghazava) in Britain after our mujahideen exerted strenuous efforts over a long period of time to ensure the success of the raid.” Those who carry out these missions are the */ghazis/*, the highest of all Islamic distinctions just below that of the */shahid/* or martyr. A ghazi who also becomes a shahid will be doubly meritorious.

There are many Muslims who believe that the idea that all other faiths have been “abrogated” and that the whole of mankind should be united under the banner of Islam must be dropped as a dangerous anachronism. But to the Islamist those Muslims who think like that are themselves regarded as lapsed, and deserving of death.

It is, of course, possible, as many in the West love to do, to ignore the strategic goal of the Islamists altogether and focus only on their tactical goals. These goals are well known and include driving the “Cross-worshippers” (Christian powers) out of the Muslim world, wiping Israel off the map of the Middle East, and replacing the governments of all Muslim countries with truly Islamic regimes like the one created by Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran and by the Taleban in Afghanistan.

How to achieve those objectives has been the subject of much debate in Islamist circles throughout the world, including in London, since 9/11. Bin Laden has consistently argued in favour of further ghazavat inside the West. He firmly believes that the West is too cowardly to fight back and, if terrorised in a big way, will do “what it must do”. That view was strengthened last year when al-Qaeda changed the Spanish Government with its deadly attack in Madrid. At the time bin Laden used his “Madrid victory” to call on other European countries to distance themselves from the United States or face similar “punishment”.

Bin Laden’s view has been challenged by his supposed No 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who insists that the Islamists should first win the war inside several vulnerable Muslim countries, notably Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Until yesterday it seemed that al-Zawahiri was winning the argument, especially by heating things up in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yesterday, the bin Laden doctrine struck back in London.

(The author is an Iranian commentator on Middle Eastern affairs)

28 posted on 07/12/2005 10:42:44 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: My Favorite Headache
They hate us because...................

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD.....

29 posted on 07/12/2005 10:46:13 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: TheCrusader
When I hear idiots like this speak, I'm reminded of the first Diehard movie, where the pretty boy with the nose candy habit wants to negotiate with the terrorists.

John tried to warn him but he wouldn't listen. That guy thought a little chat would make things all better too. That guy ended up at room temperature. That guy didn't understand what he was dealing with.

This fruitcake should take a lesson from That guy.

30 posted on 07/12/2005 10:51:00 AM PDT by libs_kma (USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Hint:
It has nothing to do with Bush and nothing to do with Iraq


31 posted on 07/12/2005 10:51:05 AM PDT by Colorado Doug
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To: My Favorite Headache

Memo to Brian: They hate you and want to kill you. You cannot change them. It's you, or them. Only one side will win. You choose.


32 posted on 07/12/2005 10:52:50 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Blame the reporter who stuck a microphone in front of this particular pie hole.


33 posted on 07/12/2005 10:59:07 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Spade = spade.)
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To: cripplecreek

Welcome to the modern Kafakesque political reality, where you're not permitted to draw attention to what left-wingers actually say.


34 posted on 07/12/2005 11:01:11 AM PDT by jpl
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To: My Favorite Headache

Unreasonable people cannot be reasoned with.


35 posted on 07/12/2005 11:02:04 AM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: My Favorite Headache
brian may praying at the altar of the "Killer Queen".


36 posted on 07/12/2005 11:06:36 AM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Gaze into your navel Mr. May...the answers are all there.


37 posted on 07/12/2005 11:11:43 AM PDT by Liberty Valance ( Howdy!)
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To: cripplecreek

When Rush went to commercial at the top of the hour I switched over to Airhead America and caught the end of some woman who said there was no way to stop a suicide bomber, so we should start dealing with the underlying causes of why they hate us so much.


38 posted on 07/12/2005 11:16:29 AM PDT by kempster
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To: My Favorite Headache
I want to see our politicians answer the question 'Why?' Why do people hate us this much?

That's a fair question, and its answers must be understood. Fortunately, the terrorists have provided many of these answers:

I no longer believe we are the good guys. We must earn this view of ourselves, and start recognizing that there are other legitimate views of the world than ours."

Agreed. Now, should the above necessarily strike us as a legitimate view?

39 posted on 07/12/2005 11:30:37 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: My Favorite Headache

Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar, Brian.


40 posted on 07/12/2005 11:31:54 AM PDT by dfwgator
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