The Question said:
No, I don't think it's naive, nor do I think it's simplistic. I do, however, think it's simple, and there is a difference. How many terrorist attacks were directed at American assets abroad or here on our own soil before the U.S. started supplying Israel with billions of dollars a year and advanced military hardware?
Now the security of American assets abroad doesn't constitute the whole of "problems emanating from the Islamic world", but it does constitute the whole of problems that should be of greatest concern to American citizens.
Israel fucks with its neighbors since almost the beginning of its existence as a recognized nation, thus the majority of Arabs hate Israel. The U.S. steps up and starts giving Israel money and military assets to continue to do that with, so now the majority of Arabs hate us, as well. That's not simplistic -- it's just not conveniently overcomplicated enough to lend itself to being all fogged up.
"Ehhhh, we don't really know why the terrorists hate us! It must be because of our decadent freedom-loving ways!"
Bullshit. We had perfectly fine relations with the Muslim world, despite our decadent ways, up until the latter half of the 20th century. Our infidel-ness didn't bother them. Our democracy didn't bother them. Our funding that kosher Pocket Reich bothered them.
Spoken like a true Buchananite! Did you vote for Buchanan in 2000? I did. You know, Question, I used to question Israel’s “Amen Corner†in our Congress. I used to question the inordinated influence of AIPAC. I used to wonder how and why so many jews seemed to be in positions of power and influence in government, media and academia. Still do to a certain extent ... then, after 9/11, I had an epiphany. I resumed my intensive studies of Islam that I had begun way back in 1979 during the ‘Hostage crisis’ in Iran - and I came to the realization that the problem wasn’t jews, the problem wasn’t US policy, the problem wasn’t the lingering effects of Western Colonialism. The problem is Islam itself.
Islam is NOT a ‘religion’. Islam is an ideology. A fascist, totalitarian ideology designed to control vast populations. An ideology that is anti-thetical to every ideal upon which our western civilization is based and is wholly incompatible with our modern notions of liberalism and freedom.
Now, take your blinders off and set Israel and the jews aside for a bit and look at the entire situation across the world .... Algeria, Nigeria, Sudan, Eritria, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Kasmir, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, East Timor, the Phillipines - conflict after conflict after conflict that involve muslims trying to kill or convert their non-muslim neighbors or their muslim neighbors that are not considered muslim enough.
What do any of the above violent conflicts have to do with Israel, jews or US policy?
As for the Crusades, Astral's point is that too often we in the west are given the Crusades as an example of Western agression and perfidy by mudslime apologists and leftist vermin. Too often we are told that the Crusades were wars of evil christians falling upon the 'peaceful' muslims out-of-the-blue. The fatcs that seem to always be missing from the thumbnail sketches of the Crusades we always get from the leftist media and Hollywood is that the crusades were a REACTION to the previous 500 years of genocidal muslim agression and expansion.
You do realize, don't you, that between 632 ad and 750 ad the muslim scum were directly responsible for history's single largest example of genocide? Between those years at least 8 and as many as 11 entire languages were rendered extinct by muslim violence. The people who spoke these languages did not take Arabic-as-a-second-language courses at their local community colleges - the men were all slaughtered and the women and children were all raped and sold into slavery.
Of course, you wouldn't hear this from any leftist history professor or media commentator - but the facts are there for any who take the time to look.
