@SparklyKatie Said 
Well if Islam demands every Muslim fight in the Jihad, why isn't every single Muslim out there running around mercilessly killing non-Muslims? The idea that every Muslim is an enemy of the west is, to put it bluntly, a crock of s***.
Onto your second point, the fact that more and more are turning to the Taliban and other terrorist organisations is for exactly the reasons the governments wanted to keep the fact that civilians are being slaughtered under wraps. I think if a foreign government invaded my country and was slaughtering innocent people I would get a bit pissed off, wouldn't you?
The entire 'war against terror' is doing nothing except turn more and more moderate Muslims against the west. Therefore exacerbating the very thing they are trying to solve.
I agree with some of what you say. Islam, like any religion, has two ends stretched across a middle. Fanatics to regulars to non-practitioners who still believe in the basics. No one in the middle or NP end is going to get close to the crazies, which, thankfully, is why every Muslim is not killing non-muslims.
The fanatics, though, are well-armed and well-funded and have a penchant for blood, whether its muslim blood or non-muslim blood. The religion itself is at odds with the two major sects, who cannot seem to live together in the same lands in which they reside.
The second point has more to it than regular people just turning to the fanatics because innocents are being killed. Truth in that, but, like Vietnam, when darkness falls, the troops go back to base and leave the countryside to the crazies. Many of the regulars believe they can act out in the daytime with the coalition forces and live to see night come, but they know they won't see daylight come if the fanatics even suspect they spoke to a westerner.
Jul 27, 2010 @ 13:47:48
