Waning Tolerance?

sufi

lala
my own feelings on AlQ (Al-Qa'ida would be my best transliteration): i don't want to be publicly judgemental for the mo , i would'nt like to diss them now if i'm gonna get in shit when the khilafa comes! ;)

but seriously...
there is a deep desire to misunderstand the suicide bombers - i've heard a lot of folk saying stuff like: "o they're just loonies," "o you can never get to the bottom of these insoluble religious/tribal/cultural hatreds" (cf also: british attitude to Northern Ireland, US attitude to Israel/Palestine)
that's a dangerously lazy approach, that plays into the hands of the hawks, on both sides, again

Hen:
if you went on the march then you got something in common with AlQ, you may not call them 'crusaders' but you got issues with western invasion of the middle east & you voted with your feet.
The bombs in London are not military strikes as much as propaganda strikes, that would less effective, imho, if we didnt have these mammoth contradictions in our 'democratic' polity - cf. Madrid.

phew
 

henrymiller

Well-known member
i have 'something in common' with AQ in that i don't agree with everything george bush does. but my reasons for opposing the war are very different from AQ's. i think the prospect of islamic theocracy in iraq is dire, no better than iraq under bush. i opposed the war, but have no idea whether 'we' should withdraw. the idea of 'clean hands' now is laughable. the only pragmatic thing is to try for some kind of peace. staying won't achieve that, neither will pulling out. fucked if i know.
it doesn't matter if the bombs were military or propaganda (i don't think they're either, actually). understanding the 'root causes' is something we need to do anyway. don't flatter AQ by saying that they represent s the desires of palestinians or iraqis (or chechens, or, as they say, bosnians): they don't. understanding why many muslims are angry about palestine tells us not very much about the network of terrorists.
 
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