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 Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject: Not All Terrorists are Muslim |
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This is an interesting perspective. I'm not necessarily sold on it, but I thought it was worth a read. This article actually caught my eye because of this quote by Dan Gillerman, Israeli Ambassador to the UN, March 7, 2006:
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| "While it may be true--and probably is--that not all Muslims are terrorists, it also happens to be true that nearly all terrorists are Muslim." |
When I first heard this now infamous quote I rolled my eyes like so  Yeah.... the IRA, the Basque seperatists, the Red Hand Gang (or whatever they were called) and the terrorisits in Columbia were all muslim .... right. Yet, people quoted it regularly after that, like some kind of fact.
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Terrorism has long been the chief demonizing marker that Israel and the United States have used in their wars against Islamic states and peoples who have stood in the path of their imperial ambitions.
Israel has led the way in charting this course. With massive propaganda, the Zionists succeeded in equating the Palestinian resistance with terrorism. In no Western country did this propaganda encounter greater success--including Israel itself--than in the United States. Most liberal Americans--and a few leftists--argued that Palestinian terrorists threatened Israel's existence.
After the capitulation of Egypt at Camp David, Israel pursued more lofty ambitions. The original dream of a Pax Israelica, stretching from Morocco to Pakistan, now seemed within reach. Only the newly emerging Islamist forces in the region--notably, in Iran--now stood in its way.
The nascent Islamists offered both a challenge and an opportunity to Israel. If Israel could paint the Islamists as a civilizational threat to the very survival of the West, the American voters could be goaded into supporting Israel's war against the Islamists: or better still, make this war their own.
This is not to discount the lure of Middle Eastern oil for America's power elite. Although the US is the world's only superpower, its relative economic position has been declining for some time. Although the US may not reverse its economic decline, it could solidify its power by gaining control over the world's oil spigot in the Persian Gulf. Europe and China could be tamed if they knew that the US had its hand on the oil spigot.
This temptation was strong, but it also carried risks. In a democracy, moreover, there stands another obstacle. Public opinion in the United States would resist such a major and risky war. Americans, therefore, would have to be prepared for war by conjuring fears of new Islamic hordes gathering to attack and destroy the West, especially the United States. |
http://www.counterpunch.org/shahid10242006.html
In a nutshell, it's saying that it's in the interests of the US and Israeli governments to make muslim synonomous with terrorist so that the electorate support any action in the Middle East....and there probably is some truth in that. Kind of like the hysteria over 'Reds' that allowed successive US governments (and friends) to get up to all sorts of mischief in the cold war. |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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Ok. While you do pose a correct, if juvenile, question you are not really looking at the numbers.
Here's the number of Muslim terrorist attacks from 9-11-01 to
2003
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2001-2003.htm.
I dare you to find a larger casualty base from any other non-Muslim terrorist group or even ALL non-Muslim terrorist groups put together in ANY time span at ANY point in time (Don't even mention the inquisition, as Muslim caused death tolls now are much higher) . Sure, not all terrorists are Muslims, but to pretend that it is not an epidemic that is endemic of their culture and violent religion is just plain wrong. |
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