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Originally Posted by Skitterpop
Radical Islam has its own fuel in its very soul.
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But it's not any different than a passionate Trotskyite, and look where it got them!
The point being, radical Islam is nearly powerless unless it can feed from the non-radicalized world.
The forces that
push resources and new souls to the dark side have little to do with Islam and everything to do with socioeconomic and political forces.
Certainly for some there is a
pull from Islam, but it's weak on it's own...compbined with the
push...now we have a problem
Just remember that 9/11 wasn't about gays getting married or Americans drinking too much lite beer. It was...in the attackers own words...a response to (perceived) oppression of Muslims by Western or Western influenced regimes in Palestine, Chechnya, Saudia Arabia, Uzbeckistan etc...
Bin Laden has been led to believe that a social system built on Sharia Law is what the Muslim world needs to regain it's former glory...it's more of a social movement than a religious one...just like those Trotskyites!
People get all caught up in the fanatic rhetoric, but Bin Laden does have a very good point. As far as Muslims are concerned...the current system is very corrupt and self serving.
That is the root of the problem, not the radicalisim itsself.
-spence
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