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What a shortcut Hvs. That's not at all what Jdietrich said. He is just trying to say that this sort of grilling can be more difficult to endure if you ARE a M
by danielnicollet 16y ago
What a shortcut Hvs. That's not at all what Jdietrich said. He is just trying to say that this sort of grilling can be more difficult to endure if you ARE a Muslim, and that's a fact no? I think we all agree that terrorism must be fought, but like any problem you fight it better once you understand its motivations. Fighting is not always done with physical or mental violence either. Sometimes, the best way to fight something like terrorism is to understand that the phenomenon doesn't reside with the perpetrator only but also with the provocateur.
What I mean here is that maybe US forces need to learn to be a bit more unpredictable and attack Terrorism in a less frontal manner to succeed. Just like the IRA did in Ireland with the Brits. Imagine what kind of violence could come from Americans if they were greeted by foreign customs officers abroad with angry screams like: "So you believe in Jesus!?!?" for several hours in a room with a mirror.
- Alex3917 16y agoNot to mention the main reasons Al Qaeda doesn't like us seems to be to our support of Israel and our lack of action on global warming. I'm sure they don't like the way we treat Muslims in the airport, but it doesn't seem to be a big source of terror attacks.
- danielnicollet 16y agoWhat evidence do you have please? Seriously, there are just so many conjectures here. What Al Quaeda fundamentally likes or dislikes for instance, may have nothing to do with the actual reason pushing a young suicide bomber to accept the task. Many known cases of westerners becoming terrorists show a personal history of extreme religious views, which this sort of customs treatment can only serve to exacerbate, no?
- gbhn 16y agobin Laden has been fairly clear on this point: he doesn't think the United States should be involved in the affairs of Muslim nations. He thinks its an outrage that US troops are stationed in the same country as Mecca. There are other offenses on his list, to be sure, but this is the big one. Sounds quite similar to this viewpoint: "In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple....meddling as little as possible in [other nations'] affairs where our own are not involved." — George Washington
- rfrey 16y agoour lack of action on global warming That's an odd assertion. So is the "support for Israel" assertion, given that al Qaeda kills plenty of Muslims too, who they feel aren't up to snuff. At least the Israel argument is widely repeated - but al Qaeda as climate change activists?
- stoney 16y agoI thought the global warming comment was a bit odd too. From a quick Google it seems that Bin Laden does indeed have something to say about global warming. It was on Fox News, so must be true: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/01/29/bin-laden-blames-global-warming-new-tape/ http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/01/29/bin-laden-blames-glo...
- MartinCron 16y agoThe one thing that the climate change researchers don't need is Osama Bin Laden on their side. That makes an already ugly controversy even uglier.
- rick888 16y ago"Not to mention the main reasons Al Qaeda doesn't like us seems to be to our support of Israel and our lack of action on global warming. I'm sure they don't like the way we treat Muslims in the airport, but it doesn't seem to be a big source of terror attacks." They don't like us because of our lack of action on global warming? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAH. It sounds like they are catering to the lefties in the US. The group that they can win over and use as a tool to infiltrate the US (The left hates the US military and Christianity..). It's not a source of terror attacks because it's damn near impossible to get anything into the airports.