RE: Damned STUPID Priest yesterday . . .
December 4, 2018 at 4:44 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2018 at 4:44 am by Belacqua.)
(December 3, 2018 at 2:41 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Islam was the direct cause of the twin towers atrocity
No, it wasn't.
The direct cause of the WTC/Pentagon attack was US involvement in the Middle East. Political and military, not religious involvement.
The attackers had a few stated goals, all of which they accomplished. These included the removal of US military bases from Saudi Arabia and a more united opposition in the Arab world to US influence. (Note that the Arab world is not the same as the Islamic world. Iran, for example, is not Arab, nor is Indonesia.)
The attack also had the result of raising oil prices, which allowed the bin Ladin family to escape its financial troubles.
As usual, Americans interpret troubles of this kind beginning when the blowback starts, and remain unaware of the fact that the US has been provoking that blowback for a long time. Blaming the troubles on Islam allows Americans to see it all as irrational violent insanity, and remain naive about their own government's evils.