The Causes of TerrorIt's the Jooooz,
according to this Imam (published in the Detroit News)
As long as Jews can immigrate to Israel by the tens of thousands each year while Palestinians stay hungry and homeless, I am afraid this will contribute to the violence in the Middle East and elsewhere.It's revenge for Falluja,
according to this turkey in the Guardian:
Shocked would be to suggest we didn't appreciate that when Falluja was flattened, the people under it were dead but not forgotten - long after we had moved on to reading more interesting headlines about the Olympics. It is not the done thing to make such comparisons, but Muslims on the street do.It was brainwashing, according to
one of the bombers' family:
"We are devastated that our son may have been brainwashed into carrying out such an atrocity, since we know him as a kind and caring member of our family," said the parents of Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30.
"We urge people with the tiniest piece of information to come forward in order to expose these terror networks which target and groom our sons to carry out such evils."It
was the injustice according to some friends of another bomber:
"He was sick of it all, all the injustice and the way the world is going about it," Mr. Dutt, 22, said. "Why, for example, don't they ever take a moment of silence for all the Iraqi kids who die?"It was an evil ideology,
says Tony Blair:
U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair warned of the need to confront the ``evil ideology'' behind the London bombs that killed 55 people, saying to appease Islamist terrorists would be a ``misunderstanding of catastrophic proportions.'' The terrorists' cause ``is not founded on an injustice,'' Blair said in a speech at the National Policy Forum in London today. ``It is founded on a belief, one whose fanaticism is such that it cannot be modified, it cannot be remedied.''
Blair vowed to work with other nations to promote moderate Islam, saying the way to thwart attacks such as last week's London transport bombings is as much about winning a battle of ideas within Islam and outside, as implementing anti-terrorism measures.
The U.K. and other nations should try to defeat terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda ``by the power of argument and debate,'' Blair said. ``That means not just arguing against their terrorism but also against their politics.''
Countering the view that the war in Iraq has made terrorist attacks more likely, Blair said the terrorists would ``use any issue that is a matter of dissent within our democracy'' to perpetrate their attacks.
``If it is Iraq that motivates them, why is it the same ideology that is killing Iraqis now?'' Blair said in a televised speech. ``If the plight of the Palestinians is what motivates them, why every time Israel and Palestine are making progress, do they commit another atrocity?'' he said.
Elimination of Israel
``What we are confronting is an evil ideology,'' Blair said. ``They demand the elimination of Israel, the withdrawal of all westerners from Muslim states'' and ``the establishment of a Taliban state on the way to one caliphate of all Muslim nations.''You can probably guess which one of those I agree with.
