--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <big snip> Terrorism's root causes > > > > By Cal Thomas > <snip> > > Portstewart, Northern Ireland. - Politicians and much of the media > in > > Britain are engaged in a familiar Western practice after a > terrorist > > attack. They think they can explain it using Western standards. > > > <snip> Now unemployment and hopelessness among Muslims are the root > cause of > > terrorism. Finding jobs for them so they can drive nice cars, live > in > > upscale flats and attend West End theaters supposedly will convert > > them to the British way of life. > <snip> > > Thanks for posting this. My sense about why a tiny fraction of the > Islamic world wants to kill Westerners is partially explained by the > poverty and deprivation created by the excesses of a capitalist > system. However the greater influence of capitalist driven excess is > in its pervasiveness, its cultural domination, and this is what the > terrorists are opposing with their horribly misguided violence. > > You can find Coca Cola or McDonalds or Boeing or IBM or GE or MTV or > American Idol or Donald Trump or US Military or Hip Hop or [your ad > here] nearly every place in the world. It is a material world, to > paraphrase an American former global superstar, Madonna (too much > irony in that name/persona ), and that is what people are globally > bombarded with- these images, this culture. 24x7, everywhere. > > If you don't have the resources of a fortune 500 company, how do you > get equal time in the mindshare of the world? You blow stuff and > people up. I am not letting the terrorists off the hook. From what I > have read, there are sects of Islam that are quite militant, the > equal of many Christian sects. So there is a strong self-righteous, > rajasic element there, that will act out violently to gain > increasing control. > > However it is a BIG mistake to easily dismiss or compartmentalize > the terrorists as fanatics, or something else inherent to their make > up. Ironically they are simply seeking the same domination which we > in the West have accomplished mostly through economic means (with a > war thrown in here and there when needed), and it is this > overwhelming and pervasive economic domination by the West which > drives much of the terrorist agenda. > Jim,
There is quite a moral difference between a cultural spreading through economic means and spreading by blowing people and things up.The tenent that I don't have stuff so I'll blow you up is not driving terrorism, it's fundementalist ideas and ideals. Read what Osama says. They are seeking domination, like you said, and the west is resisting. JohnY To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
