Another "why they hate us" article
by
Beaujoe
07/25/2007, 9:14 AM #
that falls short.
I suppose that it doesn't help our cause to have idiots assaulting muslims for looking like terrorists, or to have idiot cartoonists make deliberately offensive cartoons about the prophet (I defend their right to cartoon, but not necessarily their right to publication), but really do you think those are the major issues on the minds of Muslims considering conversion to terrorism? Probably they are only icing on the cake.
The wonderful thing about Patel's commentary is that it allows us ordinary citizens to make peace with the muslims. As long as we treat Arab and Muslim individuals with respect, so long as we don't physically assault the citizens of our countries than any further terrorism on their part must need be evidence of pure insanity and evil.
Unfortunately Muslim anger at the west is not limited to controversy over whether a muslim girl can wear a head-scarf in grammer school, but also whether marines in Haditha should be given the opportunity to rape and murder 14 year old Iraqi girls and their families. Now I know someone is going to say that "that doesn't represent all marines" and I know this, but it was only able to happen because we are there and we are only there because George W's intelligence was "mistaken" something he has admitted, but which he hasn't done anything to rectify.
In short this is another one of those articles which purports to get "in the minds" of terrorists and their recruits, but only barely grazes the target. If we are to demonstrate to Muslims that we are not targeting them then we must do more than not assault them in our neighborhoods we should try not to assault them abroad.