I guess to dig deeper we'd need to know your reasoning for considering it wrong, and seeing if the parallels between you and moderate muslims who also believe it to be wrong survive this extra scrutiny.
west and bring the whole world into the Umma. They make no f**king bones about that and you can hear them spout it anytime they open their mouths. They demonstrated their seriousness about this intention by flying planes into the Twin Towers, remember?
Given which, what would you have suggested that the US and the West did about it? Sat down and chatted with them?
I guess to dig deeper we'd need to know your reasoning for considering it wrong, and seeing if the parallels between you and moderate muslims who also believe it to be wrong survive this extra scrutiny.
Explicitly religious. Important to remember that.
Pakistanis who had somehow been forced into radicalism and away from secularism by the evil British Empire or something. It was pointing out that these people had chosen very deliberately to espouse an explicitly regressive, anti-western form of Islam right off their own bats. It was nothing to do with Saudi Arabia or how we ought to deal with it.
But no, we were there to "liberate" them, werent we?
Even if it's then followed by a profoundly hamfisted attempt to stuff words into my mouth.
terror' was perpetrated by radical Islam against the west and not the other way around?
And how is attempting to defeat the authors of such an attack in order to prevent them doing it again not a defensive measure?