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[ddeubel]

There is a "reason" people blow themselves up and kill others? How enlightening.

America doesn't give a rats ass about a "reason" . It is Us vs Them and that's the problem. A dehumanization of a vast swath of the world. Until this dagger goes through the heart of each senator, congressman and wine sniffer, yacht buyer in America, ain't gonna mean one rat's ass difference if they "got" a reason. We'll simple say, like any teach of old, "doesn't matter, I'm boss here. Listen to your elders.". Condescending and very ethnocentric.

George Washington is dead. But he's got sons.

'nough said. Now back to my regularly scheduled episode of Rev. Sharpton.

DD
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[beck's]

If you want motivation you just need to listen to what the jihadists are saying and take them at their word. They want to destabalize regimes, carve them out until they are husks and then establish Sharia law in the new and enlarged caliphate.

Islamism is a violent, imperialistic ideology wrapped up in a religion to the point where it's almost impossible to tell where the political ideology leaves and the religion begins. Many Saudi financed mosques around the world serve as clearing grounds and base camps for jihad.

The little skirmishes in Iraq and Afhanistan are not the real front lines. The front line is in Europe with it's feeble and aging population lving on the last dregs of the welfare state.

[ddeubel]

[Old Gil]

[beck's]

Well Deubel, two reallys in the pity. You really, really pity me. Nice hyperbole.

Let me throw another idea at you. We are teaching and writing in English because a small island off the coast of Europe solved the problem of the massive infant mortality rate sometime in the early 19th century. At that time the English population expanded but, more importantly, the English population was a young one. Young populations are expansive. Young people have energy and are full of piss and vinegar. They are willing to risk and to fight.

It just happens that when these English people expanded into the world they took with them the seeds of some democratic ideas, parliamentary government and common law to name a few. This young, surging population took these things into the world and we are benefiting by them today.

Fast forward to today. The fastest growing, the youngest populations on the planet are Muslim. The average age in Gaza, for example, is 15. The birthrate in Muslim countries is huge. They are now the young, surging population that is expanding into the world. They now have the piss and vinegar necessary to take on the old decaying empires.

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[Reggie]

[mises]

Sure. Canadians.

muslims, a billion people, have earned 2 Nobel prizes in the sciences. Canadians, 32 million people, have earned 10.

[ytuque]

Based on my travels and reading, I offer these possibilities:

1. The Koran inspires jihad.
2. Muslims dream of a caliphate and recreation of Al-Andalus which is an Islamic version of Shangrila or Camelot.
3. They believe in this narrative that America and the west are waging war against the peaceful muslims, and the Jews have stolen Arab lands.
4. The west is to blame for the backwards state of the Islamic world.
5. Any action taken by muslims is justified or excusable because it's a reaction to a perceived wrong somewhere in the world.
6. All muslims are part of a global islamic community (ummah) which explains why some perceived wrong in one part of the world can lead to a terrorist act on the other side of the world by an individual or group of different nationality and ethnicity.
7. Finally, the koran is taken to be the literal word of god, and Mohammad is considered the ultimate role model. So essentially, muslims are locked into place by a 7th century text with a 7th century Arab/Bedouin warlord role model.

[Old Gil]

[Reggie]