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jlf1961 -> RE: Republican Islamaphobia in terrorist hearings (3/13/2011 9:58:16 PM)
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Actually truckinslave, if you look at our history of interference with other countries, nothing we do will end the threat of terrorism.
Our support of Israel has also made us a target.
I have never said dont anger them, but I have said, repeatedly, dont single them out. You are under the mistaken assumption that ALL Muslims are extremist fanatics bent on attacking the US.
Strangely enough, the radicalization of anyone, Christian, Muslim, Hindu begins with one basic idea. You constantly tell people what the cause of everything wrong with their lives, tell them who is to blame, and then get them to believe that an individual can make a difference.
It was the same way with Hitler. He told the German people who was the cause of their lives and the economy being so bad, and how they could change it. Hitler was such a charismatic speaker and he used speeches and theatrics to influence crowds, doing it so well that people wanted to believe him.
It has been surmised by the people in the intelligence community that the same techniques are being used by Imams who are followers of Bin Laden. Anwar al-Awlaki, the American citizen currently hiding in Yemen, uses his sermons to promote violent acts against America.
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The legitimizers and bearers of Islamism are religious figures— the radical imams, even if the ideologues (such as Hassan al Banna, Sayid Qutb, Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri) seldom are. Without them, the entire ideological, political, and psychological edifice of Islamism would crumble. It thus follows that any long-term solution to the threat of Islamist terrorism has to start with Islam’s radical clerics —especially in the West, where they are more free to operate than in Muslim countries. In contrast, the terrorist operatives themselves, most obviously those willing to commit suicide, are expendable, since their motivators and recruiters can always produce more— and they always do.
The problems with applying this obvious logic to counterterrorism in the West is familiar—where does free expression and religion stop and incitement to murder start? What is the personal responsibility of a Muslim cleric who has never personally committed a violent act, but only recruited, indoctrinated, and motivated the actual murderers? Radical Imams and Terrorists
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