Calanen, Quote:I think you recall incorrectly, as usual.
And I think you've quoted the wrong person. That statement which you put my name to is actually mozza's statement.
Quote:Like you'd know what the evidence was, or its significance even if was used to beat you into (or perhaps out of) a coma.
It was well reported in the media how flimsy the evidence was, and that the Judge himself made it quite plain to the jury that a lot of the case against them is hinging on the lunatic witness who talks to birds and was known to be a habitual liar.
Go dig up the original thread and check the conversations which took place. You seem a little out of touch.
mozza, Quote:Look Abu, you will get no argument from me about the USA's atrocious foreign policy debacles, going right back to WW2, they interfered in the middle east, and africa, and latin america, even in europe, and were a law unto themselves.
Right, so you agree Muslims have some serious grievances? And can understand why some might get militant and fight back?
Or do you think bad luck, you should just suffer it.
It's quite ironic that you often take the side of those who respond with military force... if they're Americans, British, Israelis etc. Yet you clearly admit the West has committed a lot of bad stuff against Muslims over the decades... but Muslims have no justifiable reason for responding, right?
Can you understand why most Muslims might consider that as being a little unfair and one sided?
Quote:And I am familiar with how the US helped Bin Laden become as influential as he did, because they wanted to use him to fight the russians, and how they propped up Saddam Hussein's evil regime
Right, and the same people who were in Baghdad shaking his hand, are the same people who waged war on the innocent Iraqi people. Btw, they didn't just prop him up, they actually put him into power.
Quote:While the Neo-Cons were manipulating washington, we also had the muslim brotherhood spreading it's message of anti western hatred, which resulted in the beginnings of Islamic terrorism against the wes
You need to stop placing so much trust in one single documentary you saw which claimed this. The Muslim Brotherhood began in the 1920's as a movement to restore the Caliphate. They never engaged in any acts of terrorism, nor taught terrorism, nor had any connection to terrorism whatsoever, this is just nonsense. About the closest the MB came to being connected to terrorism, was that they were linked to bombings of US and Britiish targets in Egyptt during the 1950's, which were later found to be committed by Israeli spies...
Today it's popular to associate the MB, and specifically Sayyid Qutb (May God be pleased with him) with terrorism. This is largely a Saudi attempt to say "Hey we're not the terrorists, the MB are".
Neither of them ever had any connection to terrorism at all.
Your views seemed to be pretty shallow mozza, and seem to be just formed by what you heard in some documentary, or read in some book. Rather than actually having a comprehensive understanding about the situation and the players involved.
Quote:It was Islam that declared itself an enemy of the west, and when it started to target civilians, to display this hatred, is when westerners like myself began to see a growing problem with Islam.
Bin Laden never made these statements until long after the West had been slaughtering Muslims by the tens of thousands. Can you blame anyone for getting a little hostile after all the attacks and murders of Muslims?
If tens of thousands of Australians were slaughtered... wouldn't you become a little militarised?
Quote:In the western democracies, we have the power to get rid of officials who promote violence and hatred, yet Islam has no mechanism to rid itself of Islamist extremism, and since they have hijacked the religion of Islam
The West are the instigators. Muslim militant groups are merely reactionaries. They're simply responding to a threat which has long been unleashed against the Muslims. You admitted this clearly yourself above. Even the former head of the Bin Laden unit of the CIA, Michael Scheuer has stated that Bin Laden is involved purely in a defensive war. He is merely defending the Islamic lands and the continued onslaught against them.