Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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well -- The primary reason in 1954 for our actions was to prevent the USSR from expanding into Iran --

My thinking on the 15 centuries is that Islam has been at war with the west throughtout their history

Bin Ladin referred to it in several of his speeches -- following is a summary of Islamic thinking:

The book is published by The Centre for Islamic Research and Studies, a company set up by bin Laden in 1995 with branches in New York and London (now closed). Over the past eight years, it has published more than 40 books by al Qaeda "thinkers and researchers" including militants such as Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's No. 2.

Al-Ayyeri first made his name in the mid '90s as a commander of the Farouq camp in eastern Afghanistan, where al Qaeda and the Taliban trained thousands of "volunteers for martyrdom."

Al-Ayyeri argues that the history of mankind is the story of "perpetual war between belief and unbelief." Over the millennia, both have appeared in different guises. As far as belief is concerned, the absolutely final version is represented by Islam, which "annuls all other religions and creeds." Thus, Muslims can have only one goal: converting all humanity to Islam and "effacing the final traces of all other religions, creeds and ideologies."


all of it here:

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/4879.htm