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Originally posted by Prime2U:
I've always thought the cause was pretty obvious...
We are dealing is Islamic EXTREMISTS here...and their core tenet is...Either you join our faith, or you die. The US pisses these extremists off in many ways but 2 of them are....
1. The whole Israeli thing. No self respecting extremist wants Jews to have any rights, nor that land. This dates back to Isaac and Ishmael, it isn't anything new because of the US. The US now is involved because they were ASKED (Kuwait cried to us for help too) and because of a host of religious issues and felt obligations.
2. The US promotes freedom of religion....man that has to be the antithesis of Islamic extremists, they don't even allow moderate forms of Islam! They've killed clerics with tolerant interpretations. Read sometime about how the Taliban interprets their faith.
Extremists still hold dear to the old teaching of conversion by the sword. We are the ultimate personification of non-conformity to their goals, and we stand up for other countries that don't want to conform. And so, Bin Laden has used terrorist attacks, not for the damage the attacks themselves would do, because that is only minor. What he wants is for us to make a mistake in bringing him to justice so that he can incite a war between all of the Islamic nations and the western nations (read non-muslim, spreaders of poison in his mind).
I am not anti-islamic by any means, I have several muslim friends. But extremists are a totally different story. They are nuts, and they don't care how much blood the world sheds, they would be happy if in the end only a fraction was left is all of those left were muslim.
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WOW! Welcome to IW Prime2U! Heck of an entrance! Intelligent, well thought out, and fully aware of the relavent issues. Hail and well met!
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