September 02, 2006
He was fine until US foreign policy made him a killer
It takes a special kind of blindness to walk oneself through a litany of bad events only to blame the end result on the last thing that happened along. Like a building that is constructed poorly with a flawed design using defective materials with no quality control only to blame a slammed door after construction is complete for the buildings collapse. Peter Taylor with the BBC has written just such a piece.
He starts off telling us the tragic tale about an average French youth of North African decent who just so happened to be Muslim. In our story he was your average fun loving youth listening to rock and roll, going to movies and having sex with his girlfriend who because of American foreign policy gave up rock and roll, gave up sex, embraced radical Islam, dumped his girlfriend and went to Iraq to try and kill Americans.
Europe has become a hunting ground for al-Qaeda recruits. Largely disillusioned with US foreign policy, several young Muslims are making the journey east, some to become suicide bombers.So what is this solution? What is it our author concludes about American foreign policy that makes it so important that average fun loving Muslims find so impossible to tolerate?
His statements are not about any Caliphate, a pan-Muslim state which is rarely mentioned, but about US support for Israel, its backing for "apostate" Arab regimes in the Middle East and the presence of US troops in Muslim lands.In a few words we won't let Muslims exterminate or subjugate Jews, we support those evil "apostate" (apostate meaning non-Islamic governments like democracies) Arab regimes and lastly we keep trying to kill them before they kill us. I for one would like to know where the room for negotiation and discussion is. Someone please enlighten me.
Posted by Sid at September 2, 2006 11:55 AM | Religion of Peace
