In response to attempts to promote religious bigotry:
USA presence in the Persian Gulf helps extremists to recruit for the holy war! Said US Rep Ron Paul (R) in Congress Sept 25, 2001: "The hatred has been suppressed because we are a powerful economic and military force and wield a lot of influence. But this suppressed hatred is now becoming more visible and we as Americans for the most part are not even aware of how this could be. Americans have no animosity toward a people they hardly even know. Instead, our policies have been driven by the commercial interests of a few. And now the innocent suffer" MoreAt http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr092501.htm If someone keeps poking a stick into a hornets nest but then manages to duck out of the way as the hornets swarm upon YOU in defensive retaliation would it make sense to deal ONLY with the hornets? Cato Foreign Policy Briefing No. 50: Does U.S. Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism? The Historical Record by Ivan Eland, then director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute at http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-050es.html "The mission of the Minaret of Freedom Institute is to educate Muslims on the importance of liberty and free markets to a good society, while educating non-Muslims about the beliefs and contributions of Islam and the political realities of conflict between the two cultures" MoreAt http://www.minaret.org/ Live&LetLive.1998.05.02: Libertarian national Muslim figure, Dean Ahmad of http://www.minaret.org publishes 'Islam and the Discovery of Freedom' on the 50th anniversary of the creation of the modern state of Israel; and takes live unscreened calls from viewers on this 1 hour TV show. RealMedia Playback http://txliberty.dyndns.org/inetpub/wwwroot/webfiles/LL980502.rm -Terry Liberty Parker AustinLibertyInterNet Radio/TV at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LibertyProspects/links VoiceCall 1.512.462.1776 every Sunday 6:30pm (cdt) to ? I host informal disscussion to which all are welcome who want to consider ideas & issues of Liberty & Justice for ALL (aka libertarianism) in Hickory St Grill at 8th & Congress Look for me, MyPicAt http://profiles.yahoo.com/txliberty OnLineAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/chat --- In [email protected], Deus Ex Machina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry L Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > might contain clues toward understanding what motivates a person to > > commit a suicide bombing. For his book, however, Pape started with > > the bombings themselves ? every documented case between 1980 and > > 2004 ? and noticed some suggestive common threads. > > > > Foreign occupation, it seems ? not religion ? is the core motivating > > factor behind suicide terrorism. From Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas > > in Gaza and the West Bank to Sikhs in India, from the jihadists of > > 9/11 to the secular Marxist Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka ? for all of > > these, it is "a nationalistic response." > > its an interesting idea, then what about thailand, egypt, iraq, saudi arabia and other > numerous non-occuping targets of islamo-facism? > > modern day islamo-fascists are about a literal interpretation of > the koran. understanding the mind set mean looking at the history > of suicide murderers in arabian history which goes back over a 1000 years. > > its not about occupation of iraq since they are killing iraqis by the > truckloads > > its clearly about a war on western freedoms and our way of life by > psycopaths that want a spread of literal interpretation of medieval islam. > > the foiled plot to bomb the australian singapore embassy in oct 2001 is evidence > that you dont need to be occupying anything to be a target. > > Vic ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> 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/
