abu_rashid wrote on Apr 22
nd, 2011 at 3:00pm:
Grey, he responded to decades after decades (close to a century or two almost) of constant attacks, invasions, bombing, and millions of murders of fellow Muslims, not to a mere threat.
Honestly, it's amazing how patient and restrained the Muslims were for all that time, to all those continual assaults against them. The fact they finally burst out and said enough is enough is really not surprising to anyone who followed the history longer than the 5 minutes of context we see on the news.
'He' must be a lot older than I realised. You're people get 5 mins of context? lucky you. My people, (the Anarchists) who are defined as Not-the-communist-takeover by their opposition to killing as a means of getting their own way, have had a pretty rough over a century too.
Pietre Kropotkin's 1921 funeral in Moscow was attended by tens of thousands; it was the last great show of opposition to Bolshevism. 'Where there is Authority there is no Freedom' said the banners as the procession streamed through Moscow for mile after mile. "By the end of 1921 every Anarchist in Russia was either dead, imprisoned or abroad" (Historian, George Woodcock).
In the Ukraine the Anarchist Black Army was a legend finally agreeing to a deal with the russians to defeat Wrangles White army (czarists). After defeating Wrangle they went to a peace conference convened by Moscow and got machine gunned by hidden guns.
Then there was the Spanish civil war. The only time in history that a democratically elected popular government was refused the supply of arms to defend itself from invaders.
But wait...what kind of a hundred years have Jews had? Or Gypsies? or the Irish? Or Black, or Armenians, or Cambodians, Laosasians, or women in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan?
Let's face it, the human race are paranoid bastards who keep attacking each other. But of all the acts of mindless wanton bastardry 9/11 stands out as a massacre of people by random selection. Tell me do Muslims feel safer now? OBL doing a good job for you?