You have been brainwashed regarding the criminal Ataturk, he was an outright enemy of Islam and he is getting punished – inshallah.

How can an acceleration in hostilities against the Americans possibly result is a Gaza solution, let alone a Iraq solution? Note that Moqtada al-Sadr was smart enough to figure this out, the reason he stopped his militias: http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind.....da_al-Sadr In passing, a-Sadr stopping hostilities coincided with Bush’s ‘surge’ in Iraq – the Americans doing better now as al-Sadr out of the picture (see how quickly Bush appropriated the reduction in hostilities as a ‘result of the surge’ – Bush, the moron foil of the Neo Cons). If the insurgents stopped in Iraq, the US would pull out almost immediately – clearly not bin Laden’s objective? And if Hammas would simply stop in Gaza, the people there might see some light. There is no military solution to Western military power, other than persuading them that bullying hapless populations is morally repugnant – suicide bombers and small insurgent group hit & run artists simply tilt the equation toward continued US/Isreali aggression.

bin Laden deals in mixed metaphors that will result in countless more Muslim dead throughout the Middle East. He is the jackal of Islam, a coward (his art is death of the innocent to a lost cause), a miscreant and no better than Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, or any other in the long line of tin-pot savage pretender/dictators intent on getting and keeping power. His view of Islam is a series of Taliban style fascist states from Morocco to Malaysia. A relief that he does not have the conviction of the people that a return to stone age benevolent paternalism and savagery is in any Muslim’s best interest.

Just for clarification – bin Laden still kicking will greatly influence the US election – 50/50 that Bush clone, John McCain, could take the White House ‘and set the Iraq war for 100 years!’ Every bin Laden statement permits Bush to ‘whip up fear of terrorism’, with the stupid US public, yet again, which always results in re-election of warmonger Republicans – and yet more financial stimulus to wage even larger wars (war materiel is the most profitable industry in the US).

Eliminate bin Laden and a new Democratic administration will pull out of Iraq almost immediately, reduce the US military budget and its involvement world wide, will get behind the UN and force Israel to comply with UN 242, and possibly support the World Court and agree that Israel be tried for ‘crimes against humanity’ for the destruction of Lebanon in 2006.

Get terrorism stopped and the world will turn!

Support your notion of Muslim societies clearing out from within, always have, and why I consider Muslim women culpable in terrorism – someone has to feed these cowardly jerks. Colonialism a fact of life for centuries (Romans in England, why some of the roads are straight) and not really a factor in the Middle East until oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1933. Israel a UN solution post WW11 when England was broke and losing influence everywhere.

Communism defeated itself from within – the West had no part in it – terrorism should do the same thing, however, the ilk of cretin Abu Hamsa not helping – 50 years in a US jail will sort him out.

bin Laden needs to be eliminated, petty little coward cowering in the Afghan hills, someone should shoot him as a service to humanity!

Agreed with your points.

At the outset I want to make clear that I do not support terrorist acts. The likes of Taleban, AlQaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah all came about as a direct reaction to Muslims lands being attacked or manipulated by colonialism.

The West should let the Muslim world sort its own house itself instead of barging-in, all guns blazing, supporting and upholding puppet/impotent Arab governments/leaders.

Although the vast majority of the Muslim world disagrees with the methods of terrorist groups, I guess they see their stand as symbolic – a last ditch effort to show some diginity in holding up a fight which the West started and still disgraces the region with.

The West should allow the majority of peaceful muslims to get on with their internal affairs – just like the West has given India and China room to expand. Once established, the peaceful majority of muslims will easily silence the extremists. Moreover, the extremists themselves will probably not see a need for extreme measures?

It needs to be an internal affair. An outsider (the West) is seen as a big bully no matter what the intentions.

Agree with all of your points made, undisputable, however, must take serious issue with your notion: “…, and give up its policy of waging war on terrorism”

The current situation in Iraq & Afghanistan, and Israel’s conflicts with Hamas & Hezbollah are indeed the result of long term Western colonialism, however, the Taliban, al Qaeda, Hamas & Hezbollah are expressions of Islam so extreme as to warrant intervention due to their impact on the “hapless”, civilians of every religion/nationality caught in the crossfire. The 3,000 killed on 9/11 were similarly hapless: innocent civilians: http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/a.....jahiliyya/

Terrorism, by modern definition, is the sacrifice of civilians as justification for the actions of military powers (US, NATO) attempting to stabilize nations embroiled in ‘civil war’: Afghanistan, Taliban stone age male dominated rule with the harshest interpretation of the Koran subjecting the population to servitude, misery and abject poverty. Gaza, the civilian population in the crossfire of Hammas lobbing rockets into Israel to kill Israeli civilians. Lebanon, Hezbollah aggravating the Israel border conflict resulting in the 2006 Lebanese civilian slaughter by Israel! (War Crimes by both combatants in my view.) Iraq, a centuries old Sunni/Shiite conflict. Saudi Arabia, bin Laden’s Wahhabis at odds with the Royals.

Israel refuses to accept UN 242 and is ethnic cleansing and building settlements on Arab land to ensure that the Palestinians are driven from its 1967 territory grab – East Jerusalem is the final frontier for Israel, once secured Israelis will be content to run the Palestinian compounds (defacto jails) established in Gaza & the West Bank until the Palestinians realize they are never going to create a nation and will leave for Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan.

There is little doubt that the election of George Bush in 2000 changed the US landscape to ‘hawk’ as the warmonger Republicans: Cheney & the Neo Cons, saw their opportunity to run unfettered military expansion – Islamic terrorist acts simply justify a disproportional military response as Republicans are driven by money – continuous war simply facilitates ever more public spending and profits for insiders! If Islamic terrorists would just STOP, the US war machine would collapse & evaporate – terrorism simply feeds the beast, “… we will be in Iraq for 100 years” – John McCain. War is a growth industry for the US, courtesy terrorist cowards: Muslim extremists who kill civilians – the most reprehensible act to Western sensibility. Islamic extremist’s cowardice is beneath contempt, terrorist participants are lower than dog shit!

Even Western/Non-Muslim writers have come to three main conclusions:

• the central cause of terrorism is a long held tradition of colonialism and neocolonialism of Muslim countries going back more than 200 years.

• the West must at last treat the Muslim world just as fairly as other cultures and religions, and give up its policy of waging war on terrorism.

• Muslims must make a sustainable commitment to an Islam that stands for progress and tolerance.

The West is much more violent than the Muslim world. Millions of Arab civilians have been killed since colonialism began.

Faced with the warmongering of the West, it is really not surprising that support for Muslim extremists continues to grow.

Terrorists in Islamic disguise are murderers. The same holds true for the ringleaders disguised as Christians who wage wars of aggression in contravention of international law.

Muslims were and are at least as tolerant as Jews and Christians. They have made a major contribution to Western civilization.

Love of God and love of one‘s neighbor are the central commandments not only in the Bible but also in the Qur‘an

Iran under Ahamdinejad is coming to the nuclear brink, as did Cuba, and the West will simply not back down from the possibility of an isolated rogue state (North Korea, Lybia: Islamic, Communist, or other) becoming a nuclear-bomb power: http://www.reuters.com/article.....dChannel=0 With Bush gone early next year, and questionable that Ahmadinejad will survive a presidential election – unless he uses the Diebold voting machines that Bush used to win Florida & Ohio in 2000 & 2004 – the possibility of dialog between a Democrat in the White House and Iran never better. We have to get there from here and Peres last week talking of military action not helpful with Bush & the Zionist Neo Cons still wielding power in Washington: http://www.reuters.com/article.....0920080308 “… Peres said, however, if economic sanctions failed to persuade Iran to stop its contested nuclear program then “non-military options would be used up”….”

* “The problem began in January 1989. That was when Muslims living in Bradford, England, decided to do something to show their anger about The Satanic Verses, a new novel by the famed writer Salman Rushdie that included passages making fun of the Prophet Muhammad . The Muslims, mostly Pakistani immigrants, purchased a copy of the novel, took it to a public square, attached it to a stake, and set it on fire. Television news showed this auto da fé in scandalized detail, and pictures of the scene were splashed across the British media for days, making it a major topic of discussion throughout the country…

… These events, in turn, caught the attention of Ayatollah Khomeini, the revolutionary ruler of Iran, who took prompt and drastic action: on February 14, 1989, he called upon “all zealous Muslims quickly to execute” not just Salman Rushdie as the author of The Satanic Verses but “all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content.” This edict led to emergency measures in England to protect Rushdie’s person, and to weeks and months of intense debate among the world’s politicians and intellectuals about the issues of freedom of speech and blasphemy…

… When the dust settled, Khomeini had failed in his specific goal of eliminating Rushdie physically: today, over a decade later, the author is once again writing well-received books and accepting literary awards. But if Khomeini did not manage to harm Rushdie, he did accomplish something far more profound: he stirred the souls of many Muslims, reviving a sense of confidence in their faith and a strong impatience with any denigration of it, as well as a determination to take the offensive against anyone perceived to be a blasphemer or even a critic. Although Khomeini himself passed from the scene just weeks after issuing his decree, the spirit it engendered is very much alive.

During the decade since 1989, many efforts have been undertaken by the forces of Islamism – otherwise known as Muslim fundamentalism – to silence critics. Ranging from outright violence to more sophisticated but no less effective techniques, they have produced impressive results….”

The Danish cartoons and the Hirsi Ali apostasy death threat just recent blips on the ‘hate the West’ mandate, inspired (sic) up by Khomeini. And the Sunni/Shiite infighting will never end? – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6288091.stm The Ankara Hadith review and the recent BBC Doha debate show some light at the end of the Islam political tunnel?