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Hello my friends :)
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Once again, people don't have proper perspective.

If China invaded the USA, and succeeded in occupying it, there would be MANY people who would shoot at and otherwise bomb the Chinese to get them out of our country. I doubt that platitudes from the Chinese about the morality of their invasion would stop any resistance.

Additionally, reassurances from China that they would leave upon "peace" in the USA wouldn't stop people from killing Chinese soldiers, nor would it prevent gangs from killing each other.

Unfortunately, the good books governing the devout of the region are as easily interpreted to wage war as they are peace. The uneducated are read to during sermons and the educated, well, they simply read the parts that suit their sociopathic tendencies. The fact that all of their culture is derived from only religious texts is problematic since there is no "new" or "progressive" versions to make living in the footsteps of "god" less a reliving of the violent and unpredictable conditions when written than their value as parables in guiding those who teach values of life for living in harmony.

All it takes to upset the devout is a poisonous sermon, like the kind Barack Obamas' church gives and defends as calling attention to the struggle of its followers. That bias in religion must be removed from the ears of children and men alike for it serves the human race nothing productive, only hate and dissent. That is nothing new anywhere in the world and is the reason church and state must be separate.

In my travels, i have met hundreds of poor people who are not terrorists.

in fact, most poor people I've met admire and aspire to live in america.

poverty does not breed terrorism.

Please go to Jordan University and see how the students feel.

I hope that when Mr. Fairweather visits Jordan he pays particular attention to human rights. I know, I sound like a bleeding heart, but actually I consider myself a realist. A great deal of unrest and hostility I believe is directly attributable to a restriction of human rights to all, muslims, christians, jews, hindis, all persons. A recognition that they have needs and desires and should be heard. Jordan has large refugee camps with Palestinian populations who do not have freedom of movement, equal access to medical care, education and jobs. I believe the Iraqi population is meeting the same resistance. This is also true in Lebanon, Syria and many other places, including and especially in Israel. When people are treated like dogs (or worse) eventually many begin to act like abused dogs.

I don't mean to exclude the U.S. in the group of human rights abusers. They are among the worst.

I see no justification in any of the analysis I read here on this page that suggest confusion, literacy, or poverty are factors in this debate.

It is easier to criticise these people as confused, deluded or even crazy. The only role that poverty plays in this debate is the difference between a precision guided uranium tipped bomb and a home made explosive device.

On your travels to Jordan, rather than searching for modernity I challenge you to rather open your eyes and heart to the fact that they live in just a modern as age as we do, but their only fault is not aspiring to building a society that you espouse or at least allude to.

It’s only until you give other societies as much legitimacy in the debate as your own can the debate truly begin. Rather than just viewing other cultures in terms of the gap between theirs and yours.

The only difference between the suicide bomber and what he does and what we have done to their nation, bombed, murdered and destroyed is a mere play on words and simple semantics. Suicide is the only word different in what is being done.

Simple, get all the Arab/Muslims and other hate mongers to try building something positive instead of spewing hate. As more articles are finally showing, using Nazi like brain-washing, fakes like the Protocols, television shows glorifying maryters, etc, etc, etc, and they'll raise another generation to hate.

Israel leaves Gaza, two choices. Start building a state, create the infra-structure of a state, use the resources left behind to create more jobs, for more farming, etc. Or use the resources to build rockets to send into Israel, wreck the resources left behind, and then seek pity against the absent "occupiers".
We know which course was taken, and as long as that mind-set exists, there can be no peace and no change.

Re :Roots of Terror
Is there a difference between the highly educated and the illiterate when it comes to Jihad in the name of Allah? I think not.
I cite the example of the case of the Physicians in Scotland and Mohammed Atta. Atta, one of the 9-11 Jihadists was a member of Egypt’s elite. He had a grudge against the US for “blindly supporting Israel”. In his last will he asked that no women attend his wake. The night before his demise he hired a prostitute to dance for him. He was advised by his Imam to read the Quran whenever he felt a reluctance to carry out his act and he read it often.
This guy is not illiterate and from all accounts is a well read and well traveled young man. There are contradictions in his personality. If he truly believes in the Muslim Paradise that will be waiting him with 70 virgins why would he hire a prostitute to dance for him just one night before his “martyrdom” and admission to Paradise? On the other hand why would he not want women attend his wake unless he subscribes to the Quranic assertion that women are unclean and having them in his wake would annul his “good deed”.
I do not wish to preempt your findings in Jordan and Iraq, but the evidence is mounting that when it comes to Jihad in the name of Allah, there is no difference between the highly educated and the illiterate; both are confused.