[lit-ideas] Re: A Movie [longish]
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:45:23 +0100
> It comes back to whether you believe, as a result of US and UK
actions after
> 9/11, the number of muslim fundamentalists has grown or
subsided.
that's one question but the other more important one is how many
have been moved to violence. Robert Pape of Chicago, part of
whose
work on suicie bombers I summarised in an earlier post, has been
briefing the regional heads of the FBI (I think I have that
right, anyway,
rather high-up FBI people); he said on the news tonight that
they are not moved by religion, but by US/UK foreign policy.
I'll see if I can find a link to the video
Judy Evans, Cardiff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 8:09 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: A Movie [longish]
> So Paul, your initial 300 million has been slimmed down a bit
to 'everyone
> who stands in front of a group of 20,000 impressionable,
young, pissed-off
> men and says "kill the infidel because they are infidel" quotes
inciting
> scripture, instills them with a faith in almighty Allah that
they are doing
> his work, and then goes about giving them weapons, training
them to make
> bombs, and pays their families when they carry out 'jihad'.'
>
> Just how many would that be?
>
> What you should be concerned with is not the inciters (we have
enough of
> those in the west), but rather why it is that the rest would
feel the need
> to listen to them and take them seriously. To my mind, that
'why' is
> concerned with how the west is perceived which in turn is
shaped by how the
> west acts.
>
> It comes back to whether you believe, as a result of US and UK
actions after
> 9/11, the number of muslim fundamentalists has grown or
subsided. Though I
> can't know myself, I would imagine that of all those people
arrested this
> morning, the vast majority would never have dreamt of taking
part in such a
> plan before 9/11 or before the Iraqi invasion.
>
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