AMF's deep reflection although much appreciated seems to stutter on the same issues raised by this post.
Who are the terrorists?
What does Islam have to do with it?
What is the link?
It does not answer them yet widens the grey area that everyone is trying to avoid.
As to the Iraqi crisis, AMF tries to whitewash US involvement in the crisis again in the names of democracy and freedom, portraying the Arab or Muslim Layman as an ignorant sod with no other satisfaction than seeing Westerners killed.
What he fails to say is that the Americans went into to Iraq to control it, and what they have done is lost control of the whole situation, not to blame the US for today's ills, but the fact that they are out of control in Iraq, does not reassure me one bit.
To add insult to injury, the Americans are now finding every possible excuse to justify their failure, e.g. foreign insurgents, Al qaeda etc...
Now to refresh AMF's mind, I will ask one question:
Why did everyone oppose intervention into IRAQ,
simply because we wanted to avoid the crisis that we are currently living, and Saddam then, contained is better than this situation everyone has to suffer as a consequence.
So it is not the US invasion as such, its the destablisation of the region that is now resulting in bonafide retaliation.
Why bonafide?
Is it because they are American, chrisitan, no but rather because they have invaded, killed and maimed.
Why would an Iraqi not be entitled to his own pride or justice or is that also only the property of the west too.
AMF could not be further from the mark and I do hope that time will certainly give him the chance to reflect on his statements and perhaps join us by enlightening us further rather than dim us with his sarcastic remarks on how Arabs should be.
I quote him below:
Apologists such are yourself, AMX10, are more concerned with managing the image of Islam through deflection and whitewashing
Islam does not require me to manage its image mate, its a religion that is Iconless, because it's faith relies on universal science vs. belief.
He ends his post by saying:
If the Western media was the anti-Muslim propoganda machine you'd like everyone to believe it is...controlling everyone's thoughts
We have to date not seen proof of WMDs everyone has determined as the cause to the invasion, and AMF further ties himself in controversy by adding
from those with no sense of irony or grasp of history to know Baathism was patterned in large part on National Socialism
the link between Saddam and Al qaeda is henceforth established when Bathism and NAZIS are mentionned.
AMF cannot even reason in a short paragraph without contradicting himself
And if Guantanamo were a Nazi concentration camp, they would have gassed or machine-gunned everyone held there within the first few days or weeks.
So in his opinion Guantanamo is right.
Get a life mate wake up to reality and stop daydreaming!
We lived with Saddam but at least we knew how close we could get to him and avoided making the mistakes that everyone is making now. Western media is lying do not deny that fact, give me facts that they have given us since the start of this conflict, WMD's where are they?
So stop the BS mate and get on!! Don't think we can be fooled by two smartly placed words, I sincerely recommend a little history 101, before you post anything else.