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
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