Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

So now you're saying that the "immoral" lifestyles you cited in your first post doesn't really have so much to do with it but it's the arrogance, the fixation on material things and the fact that Bush was elected twice. Problem with that theory is that terrorism didn't start with George Bush and that much of the western world lives in capitalistic sin but is for the most part left alone by islamic thugs.

I agree about the arrogance but I think they're pissed off by the arrogance associated with the invasion of muslim countries and the slaughter of muslim people rather the arrogance of driving 5-ton cars to the grocery store and building 6,000 sq.ft homes for a family of 2. They've said so themselves........repeatedly, but for some reason about 30% of americans won't accept it.


"In the video, bin Laden accused Bush of misleading Americans by saying the attack was carried out because Al Qaeda "hates freedom." The terrorist leader said his followers have left alone countries that do not threaten Muslims.

"We fought you because we are free ... and want to regain freedom for our nation. As you undermine our security we undermine yours," bin Laden said.

He said he was first inspired to attack the United States by the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon in which towers and buildings in Beirut were destroyed in the siege of the capital.

"While I was looking at these destroyed towers in Lebanon, it sparked in my mind that the tyrant should be punished with the same and that we should destroy towers in America, so that it tastes what we taste and would be deterred from killing our children and women," he said.

"God knows that it had not occurred to our mind to attack the towers, but after our patience ran out and we saw the injustice and inflexibility of the American-Israeli alliance toward our people in Palestine and Lebanon, this came to my mind," he said."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137095,00.html