Quoth Eric Dondero: > So Tom, let me get this straight. Are you saying that the Islamo- > Fascists hate us because of our foreign policy? Has nothing to do > with our cultural values?
No. I'm saying that the Islamo-fascists would have no base of popular support if it wasn't for our foreign policy. Sure, they hate our cultural values, but most normal Muslims either couldn't care less or are gettin' down on Madonna cassettes any time the morality police aren't looking. > How about Theo van Gogh? How about him? He was murdered, the murderer was caught, end of story. > How about all the Gays, Lesbians, Marijuana smokers, other > Alternative lifestyles advocates, Jews and even at times Christians > in Western Europe who are being attacked on a daily basis by Muslim > youth? Yes -- RADICALIZED Muslim youth. And who had the money to spend radicalizing them? The Islamists. And how did they come by that money? Via donations from regular Muslims who think that the Islamists are the only people who might be able to keep the US out of their back yards. > If I remember correctly, France opposed the War in Iraq, and > fiercely have been in opposition to American foreign policy for > decades? The French are back and forth on foreign policy. And they probably resent the US encouraging and supporting the Islamists who are radicalizing the Muslim portion of their population. > How about the attack on the schoolchildren in Russia? Didn't the > Russians also oppose American interventions in the Middle East? Why > did they deserve over a hundred of their babies being slaughtered by > Muslim terrorists? They didn't "deserve" it -- but there's no doubt that it was connected to their own foreign policy. Ever heard of Chechnya? The proof is in the pudding. Apart from a couple of incidents of piracy and "innocent bystander" killings during hijackings related to Israel, Muslim terrorism versus Americans simply did not exist until the 1970s as US intervention in the region became impossible to ignore (the first biggie was propping up Iran's murderous dictator and then refusing to extradite him when he was overthrown and fled to the US). Wahabe Islam has existed since the 18th century and Shiite Islam since the argument over the succession from Mohammed. Yet the Islamists, for all intents and purposes, ignored the US for 200 years. If you want to know what changed on their side, look at what changed on ours. Tom Knapp 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/
