I'm not sure how long this post will last, but here's an article that describes the terrorist attack in Egypt that killed 64 people. I guess since they're in the Middle East who cares, right?
Anyway, I offer it to support my OPINION (apparently, pretty unpopular here) that the war on terror is NOT a war on Islam, but against a bunch of nut jobs. The article does not absolve Muslims...in fact it suggests that mainstream Muslims are in denial. Anyway, I found this quote pretty interesting...
"Christians deny that McVeigh bombed Oklahoma City out of religious reasons, Japanese refuse to believe that Shoko Asahara (the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which released sarin gas in the Tokyo subway in 1995) was really a Buddhist, Jews will say that Yigal Amir (who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995) wasn't a true Jew. Muslims can't believe these are Muslim acts," said Mark Juergensmeyer, director of global and international studies at UC Santa Barbara.
"And it's true -- it's not their kind of Islam that's involved. But that's part of the point, that the attack was made against moderate Islam as much as against the West. Their war is within Islam as much as it is against us."
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...NGUPDSVJ71.DTL
Eh, whatever...Monday is as good a day as any to piss in the wind... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Anyway, I offer it to support my OPINION (apparently, pretty unpopular here) that the war on terror is NOT a war on Islam, but against a bunch of nut jobs. The article does not absolve Muslims...in fact it suggests that mainstream Muslims are in denial. Anyway, I found this quote pretty interesting...
"Christians deny that McVeigh bombed Oklahoma City out of religious reasons, Japanese refuse to believe that Shoko Asahara (the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which released sarin gas in the Tokyo subway in 1995) was really a Buddhist, Jews will say that Yigal Amir (who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995) wasn't a true Jew. Muslims can't believe these are Muslim acts," said Mark Juergensmeyer, director of global and international studies at UC Santa Barbara.
"And it's true -- it's not their kind of Islam that's involved. But that's part of the point, that the attack was made against moderate Islam as much as against the West. Their war is within Islam as much as it is against us."
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...NGUPDSVJ71.DTL
Eh, whatever...Monday is as good a day as any to piss in the wind... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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