Re: The Elephant's root causes - Answer the question!
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Posted by Robert on 16:19:14 2006/06/06
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Re: The Elephant's root causes - Answer the question! posted by Al Gordon
I was just pointing out that you can look through any religious text and find the "evidence" you are searching for. Certain fundamentalist groups in the U.S. have done this to support the wacky "end times" beliefs, the Zionists interpreted the Torah as a real estate deed etc.
As for 9/11, I will not say it was justified. What I will say is that most of the hijackers came from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, countries with brutal regimes receiving the complete support of the West. That was likely a greater factor in their motivation than reading something in a religious text. I will also say that had oil been discovered under Jamaica a century ago the hijackers might well have been Rastafarians.
But the murder of innocent civilians is never justified, except in special circumstances, such as Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Falujah. I'm not sure what makes one case legitamate versus another, unless it has something to do with spending large amounts of public money.
Peter Ustinov said "terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich".
Go figure.
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