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Why Didn’t These Anti-Islam Films Spark Rage?


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160148#.UFuKH7JlTFtIsrael national news:

Anti-Islam videos posted earlier this year sparked only a shadow of the lethal rage over the “Innocence” film, indicating that Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups have been behind inciting violent Muslim demonstrations and terrorist attacks.

All of the videos, seen below, were produced professionally, but the extremely amateurish “Innocence of Muslims” video that has been cited by media as the cause of the past week’s Muslim rage already has recorded more than 10 million clicks.

Veteran journalist and formerNewsweek senior editor Arnaud de Borchgrave wrote this week that the blame for the violence is not the “Innocence” video but is more likely Al Qaeda and other terrorist cells, which “are alive and ready to kick in when the opportunity arises.”

The anti-American violence is not due to the amateurish film but can be traced to a growing hatred of the United States, as expressed recently by the same U.S. Army advisors who trained them “with some $200 million worth of jet fighters and attack helicopters destroyed in a heavily fortified allied base in Afghanistan by Taliban guerrillas disguised in U.S. military uniforms.”

He added that the last "11 years of fighting have strengthened rather than weakened the Islamist enemy.”

The United States implicitly has built up expectation in the Arab world, but de Borchgrave wrote, “Recent explosions have demonstrated yet again that the Arab world isn't on a glide path to Western-style democracy.”

((Start with this one))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3BGwQr8xg4&feature=player_embedded#!


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@Casino67

 

"Why Didn’t These Anti-Islam Films Spark Rage?"

 

Short answer...because.

 

I know this is a crazy idea, but could it be they don't want to call attention to a factual account of their idiocy?

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@Casino67

 

"Why Didn’t These Anti-Islam Films Spark Rage?"

 

Short answer...because.

 

I know this is a crazy idea, but could it be they don't want to call attention to a factual account of their idiocy?

 

Your basic Salafists doesn't consider it idiocy. This is the thing, they really believe this.

Religious faith is powerful, for good (Mother Teresa) or ill (Ayman al-Zawahiri).

 

If you are interested (prepare yourself) I have some books on the subject (I really really need to get a life!)

 

The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda

 

In contrast to the widely held assumption that terrorists as crazed fanatics, Jerrold Post demonstrates they are psychologically "normal" and that "hatred has been bred in the bone". He reveals the powerful motivations that drive these ordinary people to such extraordinary evil by exploring the different types of terrorists, from national-separatists like the Irish Republican Army to social revolutionary terrorists like the Shining Path, as well as religious extremists like al-Qaeda and Aum Shinrikyo. In The Mind of the Terrorist, Post uses his expertise to explain how the terrorist mind works and how this information can help us to combat terrorism more effectively.

 

Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror

Mary Habeck

 

From Booklist

*Starred Review* Yale historian Habeck takes Muslim terrorists at their word. They aren't envious of liberal democracy or the consumer society. Religion drives them--specifically, an exclusivist, triumphalist vision of Islam that Habeck calls jihadism to point up its holy-war-like character rather than its orthodoxy. The latter is problematic, for while jihadism is based on universally accepted Muslim principles and traditions, what it has forged out of them is highly controversial, not least because jihadists consider Muslims who disagree with them to be unbelievers as worthy of destruction as non-Muslims. Habeck traces the current of Islamic thought that eventuated in jihadism from an early-fourteenth-century scholar and the eighteenth-century founder of the harshly restrictive Islam predominant in Saudi Arabia to four twentieth--century figures who inspired a host of radical reactionary organizations, including Hamas and al-Qaeda. Habeck repeatedly reminds us that jihadists constitute a small minority, but she doesn't expound moderate Islam, much less Christianity or Judaism, to answer or refute jihadism. Her purpose is to reveal jihadism. So doing, in considerable detail and with admirable clarity, she contributes one of the most valuable books on the ongoing Middle East--and world--crisis.

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