> They regularly complain about the Reconquista, the results of > the Battle > of Lepanto and the lifting of the Siege of Vienna by Jan > Sobieski (the > latter two occurances broke the power of the Ottoman Empire). They're > major beef with the west is the idea that any land that has ever been > under the control of Islam must be returned to the control of Islam.
> This includes most of Europe (really all of Continental Europe except > Germany, Poland, Scandinavia and Northern and Central France, > as at some > point or another an Islamic Nation or Army controlled most of Europe). > > The Average Muslim doesn't believe this, but the problem children > committing the violence do. > No they don't. They believe that by killing themselves and as many of us as possible they will be able to bring about some kind of improvement in the conditions they and their families live. Rightly or wrongly they blame these conditions on us. Mostly they live in shit conditions. If you lived in similar conditions you would probably want to kill someone to escape them. Treating them as lunatics, fanatics and demons does absolutely nothing whatsoever to stop terrorism. Finding out what their grievances are about, and doing something constructive to resolve them will help, even though it will take a long time, won't be glamorous and won't allow our glorious leaders to strut around in uniform on aircraft carriers. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
