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originally posted by: spy66
a reply to: Dark Ghost
Atheism is probably the one entity that is always criticising religion. I dont think Atheism are a more restrianed brand of People than religious People. There are many of them that are capable of showing the same heatered towards others as these extream muslims.
originally posted by: ketsuko
They hate us because we do not live according to the rules and stricture of their religion. Our Western ideals and freedoms are antithetical in nature to their religious beliefs, and their religion is a theocratic system when practiced in certain sects which means that church and state are not separate entities and cannot be separated.
So while you can try to point the finger at those things you listed, they are merely symptoms of where the cultural faultiness lie between Shari'a Islam and Western Civilization. Even absent those things, there is friction. See the incident of the Barbary Pirates and study why it occurred to understand this. America hadn't even formed a foreign policy before there was friction between our nation and the Islamic world.
originally posted by: olaru12
This might have something to do with it. Invasion of Muslim countries.
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originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: neformore
a reply to: conspiracy nut
Well, lets see.
The partitioning of the region by the British Empire.
The creation of the state of Israel
Suez
US support for Israel in the Arab-Israeli wars
The overthrow of the legitimately elected government in Iran in 1953 by the CIA and MI6
US support for the Shah of Iran
US support for Saddam Hussein during the subsequent Iran/Iraq war when the Shah was deposed.
The proxy cold war between the West and Russia
Suport for the house of Saud
Continuring supoort of Israel in Palestine, and vetoing of UN resolutions to resolve the situation
The Iraq war based on the pretence of a lie
So your reason maybe for people older than 50 or 60...hehe
We need to look at why today. Even Iraq is getting long in the tooth.
I think the main reason is most of the Middle East are ruled by extremest views. I'm not saying extremist as in somewhat new definition of hating the West, I'm saying it as in old school extremism of how they want to control their population. That control is to enslave their women while maintaining a extremely strict religious code on the population in general. Many today do not want that, they do not want to be whipped because the hold hands or not hide their faces etc.
So what do you do? You create a bogyman, a devil etc and we just happen to be the most convenient choice since western views in general are what those in control do not want. They are afraid to lose their power...that is about the gist of it all.
originally posted by: Hecate666
Wow, so many excuses for their bad behaviour. Of course the 'west' has attacked their people, we were/are at war [right or wrong]. That is certainly a good reason to hate the west.
That somehow doesn't explain why they kill their own.
Women get stoned to death for adultery = because of drone strikes ?!?
Gays are thrown from buildings = because of drone strikes?!?
10 year old kids [theirs, not ours] are used as suicide bombers to kill other fellow muslims = because of drone strikes????????
Sorry, that doesn't wash.
They seem to push an incredibly medieval agenda of their religion and they are having a whale of a time [raping young girls, killing for fun]. None of these deaths have anything to do with 'the west'.
They hate the west because we are not muslims.
I say this because there are enough muslims who came to the west to study and be free, who do NOT hate us, despite the drone strikes. They understand that those things are down to governments and not individuals.
However the rest are either murdering scum [IS and IB] who tell others to hate the west [amongst everything else they hate, don't flatter yourself U.S. that you are the only thing they hate, because you are just one item on a very long list of hates], or sheep that listen to them [either out of fear or because all they hear about the west are anti-western propaganda].
originally posted by: JimTSpock
Biggest exports of the middle east terrorism and extremism. They can't get enough of it over there now they are exporting it. I know not politically correct.
originally posted by: JimTSpock
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
So that is the cause and justification for Islamic extremism? I don't think so. That is a whole separate issue and history and America is not the only country at risk of Islamic extremism. You are not saying all victims of Islamic extremist terrorism brought it on themselves somehow are you?
originally posted by: JimTSpock
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
It's a complex issue and I agree western and US foreign policy has a questionable and debatable history and the CIA are a bunch of morons. But where we are now is an interesting place in history and Islamic extremists are playing a big role and won't go away no matter what the west or the US or the CIA or NSA does.
These "terrorists" are only wrong for targeting civilians when they do, not the fact that they are militant and fighting back.
there is an argument that plans were drawn up for operations in Afghanistan before 9/11 too. Although there are less sinister explanations as to why, that still asks questions of its own.
originally posted by: JimTSpock
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
That could be one interpretation. However september 11 2001 was before the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, Gulf war 2.
originally posted by: spy66
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
These "terrorists" are only wrong for targeting civilians when they do, not the fact that they are militant and fighting back.
Do you know why ceviliance are the only once targeted for terrorism?
There is a reason. Civilians are targeted because then the government have to act. Thay have to do something.