What grounds can you muster to back up such a statement?
As I said in my other post; 'some passages of the Old testament are no less violent than those of the Qur'an'.
Hence it is my view that Islam (or any other religion for that matter) is not the common denominator when it comes to the cause of terrorism.
Islam did not cause the rise of Al Qaeda, no... Islam was only a medium.
To quote the Christian Al Qaeda of the 10th century.
Lord Baldwin I: 'Attack! To kill a Saracen is not a sin, so kill all of them! For god wills it!' (something along those lines). This is from the crusader times, note that 'Saracen' is a term used to describe Muslims.
I can draw parallels to between that sort of ideology and cause to Al Qaeda today.
Besides, you have to understand how it is that Al Qaeda shows up in Afghanistan in the first place.
During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, we saw some very significant events that lead to all of this.
The first was the invasion itself, occupation was brutal, politically motivated, eventually it became a tug of war between two superpowers, the rope was the Afghan people.
But anyway, the first thing was, that happened was invasion!
With that all the Afghan elite, the intellectuals, the teachers, the professors, the professionals, anyone and everyone with a degree and/or enough money fled. So the first event was brain drain.
The second problem was war. Occupation, the more brutal the worse for the occupier.
Remember Newton's third law:
'To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction...'
So then came war, now people has a cause, militia groups were formed with the backing of Pakistan and the West.
Then came the sad state of the Afghan economy, non-existent economy.
Restricted to dealings on medieval scales. as a result of that and war and brain drain, education suffered.
An entire generation of Afghans grew up uneducated and illiterate.
Ethnic tensions were always there, even before the Soviet invasion, but they were forgotten for quite some time, before focus shifted back. Then you had the Kandahar student movement and the appearance of the taliban.
But, all that time, why is it you may ask... did these people begin to associate Islam with the war?
Well, the soviets were the aggressor and Mullahs in Afghan as any other Afghans weren't happy, they didn't call it a holy war, but the situation was perfect for it. The God-less Soviets against afghan saviors.
Well, now you may ask... How is it that this struggle (this Jihad, if you will) become unlawful terrorism?
Well... this is where the political games, comes in.
Here take a look at this:
During the 80's the CIA obviously waged war on the Soviet union and it's very presence in Afghansitan, obviously it could not do so openly, nor could force people to fight. But they did attempt to persuade.
''The CIA supplied hundreds of thousands of books to Afghan children.
Designed and written by the university of Nebraska.
These books taught children Jihad...
The links for this in case you guys need one are from the Washington Post and Canadian broadcasting corporation.
But are from 2002 and have expired. But I trust the site I found it from, other links work and I've used this site before.
University of Nebraska
An example from the the textbooks from Uni of Nebraska...
Taken from a math book.
- If out of 10 atheists, 5 are killed by 1 Muslim, 5 would be left.
- 5 guns + 5 guns = 10 guns
- 15 bullets – 10 bullets = 5 bullets, etc.''
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Now, just imagine, if it were not Muslims in Afghanistan, instead you had Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs and so on...
Could they not have easily fallen into this very same trap?
All these reasons and more are why I believe what I believe.
for now, that's all I have time for, it's 2 am here and I'm off to bed.
Good night,
just talk in their language......by making offtopic posts.
