and you think these guys are not motivated by what they view as "Middle-Eastern Invasion"?
Nevertheless, "Jihadists" (as a general term) also target other Muslims whom they view as Takfir, heretics, whatever. It didn't take the presence of westerners to prevent Muslims from different sects and tribes from killing each other.
(Timothy McVeigh killed hundreds of white people when he bombed the Federal Building in Oklahoma).
The common thread here is people who are looking to blame everything on the "other", and to take out their frustrations in violent ways. Instead of looking for social, political, or religious change and reform, they try to gt famous by blowing themselves and others up, shooting up mosques or churches, etc.
There is no moral high-ground here. We are all flawed human beings with the capacity for evil if we lose sight of God and our moral foundations.
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It is crazy to suggest a large portion, or a majority, of people in the west condone the attacks. Aside from some closet crazy people, the attacks have been almost universally condemned, and many are sickened by the whole thing.
Are westerners to assume that a majority of Muslims condone 911 or driving trucks into crowds of innocent people? I certainly don't assume that, and I haven't met a Muslim outside of the Internet who has anything but disgust for such things.
