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Why do terrorists hate and seek to murder and destroy?

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Despite what some on the left says, the question is not, as Newsweek asked in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, why do they hate us, but why do they hate.  Commenting on a massacre in Pakistan, Barry Rubin offers this telling insight:

If the United States had not killed bin Ladin on that particular day, in that place, or in that way, the Charsadda attack would have happened anyway. Thus, terrorists use specific events as excuses to do what they would have done anyway.

Via Instapundit.  Read the whole thing.

SOMEWHAT RELATED:  In the vein of the Newsweek piece linked above, Dennis Prager wonders about a man who uses the occasion of the “killing of his sister’s murderer to badmouth America and hold it ultimately responsible for her death“:

Asking what America did to elicit the hatred of Muslim terrorists is morally equivalent to asking what Jews did to arouse Nazi hatred, what blacks did to cause whites to lynch them, what Ukrainians did to arouse Stalin’s hatred, or what Tibetans did to incite China’s harshly repressive treatment of them.

Comments

  4. Islamists have been trying to conquer the world since 642.

    Really, there is nothing new under the sun. I blame the religion which motivates them, Islam. It really is different from the other religions, as its founding documents and events emphasize conquering the world more, overall, than do the other religions.

  5. That picture of Osama bin Laden wrapped in a blanket and sitting in a pig sty with remote in hand watching himself on a TV that Goodwill wouldn’t take speaks volumes to me.

    This guy was consumed by his inner demons and he was given over entirely to what haunted him. It does not surprise me that he could form a gang of fellow, demented, sociopaths. However, since they adopted Allahu Akbar as their trade mark and they toss Islam around as their justification of everything, you can not call Osama or his gang simple terrorists.

    If Islam were a “religion of peace” I would expect said religion to mount a holy crusade to stomp out the terrorists who are misusing the religion. But, no such crusade exists, and I think I know why. The slippery slope of Sharia is too bound up in Islam to delineate where peace morphs into dealing with the infidel.

    Since they seem unwilling or unable to come to terms with their own religion, I am left being suspicious of the religion in general. Until Dearborn, Michigan tidies up its act, it looks like a foreign, hostile colony taking root to me.

  6. That picture of Osama bin Laden wrapped in a blanket and sitting in a pig sty with remote in hand watching himself on a TV that Goodwill wouldn’t take speaks volumes to me.

    This guy was consumed by his inner demons and he was given over entirely to what haunted him. It does not surprise me that he could form a gang of fellow, demented, sociopaths. However, since they adopted Allahu Akbar as their trade mark and they toss Islam around as their justification of everything, you can not call Osama or his gang simple terrorists.

    If Islam were a “religion of peace” I would expect said religion to mount a holy crusade to stomp out the terrorists who are misusing the religion. But, no such crusade exists, and I think I know why. The slippery slope of Sharia is too bound up in Islam to delineate where peace morphs into dealing with the infidel.

    Since they seem unwilling or unable to come to terms with their own religion, I am left being suspicious of the religion in general. Until Dearborn, Michigan tidies up its act, it looks like a foreign, hostile colony taking root to me.

  8. Stuff like this…..

    For the second time in three days, a night raid in eastern Afghanistan by NATO forces resulted in the death of a child, setting off protests on Saturday that turned violent and ended in the death of a second boy. . . .

    “American forces did an operation and mistakenly killed a fourth-grade student; he had gone to sleep in his field and had a shotgun next to him,” [the district’s governor, Abdul Khalid]. said. “People keep shotguns with them for hunting, not for any other purposes,” Mr. Khalid said.

    The boy, [15], was the son of an Afghan National Army soldier . . . When morning came, an angry crowd gathered in Narra, the boy’s village, and more than 200 people marched with his body to the district center. Some of the men were armed and confronted the police, shouting anti-American slogans . . .

    The police opened fire in an effort to push back the crowd to stop its advance to the district center. A 14-year-old boy was killed, and at least one other person was wounded, Mr. Khalid said. . . .

    On Thursday, a night raid by international forces in Nangahar Province resulted in the death of a 12-year-old girl and her uncle, who was a member of the Afghan National Police.

    …. has happened thousands of times since George Bush decided to invade the Middle East. The United States has far more innocent blood on its hands than Osama Bin Laden ever could have attained. You can pretend all you want that our foreign policy isn’t a big contributor to this cycle of violence, but how many stories like the one above would you need before you started to hate your supposedly benevolent liberators?

  10. The United States has far more innocent blood on its hands than Osama Bin Laden ever could have attained.

    Apparently Levi doesn’t think that any of the thousands of people killed by Osama bin Laden, or the tens of thousands of children killed by the Taliban, or the hundreds of thousands of children killed by Saddam Hussein, were in any way innocent.

    This is the whole “little Eichmanns” and “God damn America” belief system that permeates the Obama Party left, and it really is on several levels just beyond belief. It’s quite amazing to recognize that people like Levi, people whose behavior and rhetoric would have earned them instant execution in the Taliban, al-Qaeda, or Saddam’s Iraq, are sitting here screaming how the United States is the bloodthirsty murderers of innocents.

    This is pure, undiluted, irrational Bush-hatred. That’s all it is. You realize very quickly that Levi’s hatred of Bush reaches the level of insanity where he is equivocating for Osama bin Laden.

    And finally, Levi supports and endorses tearing apart and snipping the spinal cords of infants who are “inconvenient” to their parents. I can’t think of more innocent children than that, but Levi supports, endorses, and demands Federal funding for their killing.

  11. Levi, the idiot, proclaims unintentional civilian deaths in combat (even civilians being used as human shields by the enemy) as morally equivalent to the deliberate targeting of unarmed civilians by terrorists.

    And, sadly, he is not even bright enough to realize this is but one reason people regard him as a joke and a hack.

  12. …. has happened thousands of times since George Bush decided to invade the Middle East. The United States has far more innocent blood on its hands than Osama Bin Laden ever could have attained.

    Never mind me, just stopped in for my weekly reminder as to how incredibly stupid the other half of this country remains.

    Carry on, lads!