It is laughable that you are essentially saying that Coptics and Bahais have been persecuted enough that they would have the same reasons as Muslims to form transnational terror organizations that strike international targets.
How is that laughable?
Don't Copts and Bahais experience the same 'internal and external politics' as their fellow Sunni Muslims in the region?
Why aren't there any Copts traveling to Iraq to blow themselves up? On the other hand, why is fundamentalism, fanaticism and militancy not limited to a specific region in the Muslim world? Indeed, we regularly even see converts to Islam blow themselves up and join Islamic terrorist movements such as al-Qaeda. What are their internal and external political experiences to cause them to join al-Qaeda and/or become a suicide bomber?
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Do you feel this is representative of of all islamic extremism? Aren't they others where terroists have pointed to US foreign policy. For example the guy that tried to set off a car bomb in NY and directly related his actions due to drone attacks in Pakistan.
So it's sometimes foreign policy, sometimes free speech, sometimes a mean thing someone said about Islam, sometimes this, sometimes that. Do we see a pattern here? Hmmm.
Anyways, I think the failed NYT square bomber also mentioned the cartoons of prophet Muhammad as a reason for his bomb attack - or perhaps that was the Swedish suicide bomber who blew himself up prematurely trying to kill and maim Swedish Christmas shoppers (I thought Sweden was 'safe' !!!).
Well I think you need to ask yourself whether US foreign policy has impacted buddhists and to what extent if any.
Look at the casualty tolls from Viet Nam from both the French and American interventions there and you can tell me if it has. Don't recall any transnational Buddhist holy war that has resulted.
Do you agree that unlike the rest of the world US policy has allowed Israel to continue its occupation of Palestine? What other country has stated that it would veto a decision that passes the SC? Those sorts of foregin policy actions do lead to hatred against the US.
Well, for several months after a private Danish newspaper published some satirical cartoons, I seem to recall numerous embassy attacks and flag burnings of a certain Nordic nation. I don't think it was Israel or the US. Perhaps it just doesn't take much to get people worked up and lust for blood. It's been something like five years since the publication of the satirical Muhammad cartoons and the recent terror plots by Muslim fundamentalists is
still over that issue.
Isn't it fair to say that you should put more thought into this fairly sketchy insinuation that it all about free speech?
Isn't it fair to say I never said it was all about free speech?
the Bahais and Babis were very militant in Persia/Iran and are an offshoot of Shia Islam.
Google scholar speaks! Did you pick this up from the same Dot com site that told you the epistle from James was a letter written by Jesus (or did you think the epistles and gospels are one and the same - serious question, I still haven't figured out how you managed to believe a line from an epistle would be a quotation from Jesus)?
Can we NOW discuss the reasons behind the Kahanist Jewish Religious terrorist groups
No, because they don't fit the criteria of this thread (unless you want to admit Ron Paul is wrong). Can you please stay on topic?
Why no Buddhist/Hindu/Christian transnational terrorist groups? Didn't the US invade SE Asia or something?
(We can discuss the Christian terrorists such as the LRA and Hutaree at a later point..)
You bumped a recent thread, so do it there where it would be on topic.