 It is Al Qaeda policy to stage terrorist incidents in the West so that Western governments turn on Muslims, which will eventually radicalise the latter, bringing them on the same ideological wavelength as the organisation that Osama Bin Laden heads.
| That's the standard objective of terrorism, to cause a state to become what the terrs already say it is. Objective One is to split the world into "us" and "them," with the "us" being defined as the terrorists' side. Read up on the FLN in Algeria. It's the classic case study. The state it led to was also a classic of brutality, not that Binny would be dwelling on that aspect of it with the Moose limbs. |
Anatol Lieven, a former British journalist and now a resident scholar at a leading local think tank, speaking at an event at the Johns Hopkins University to launch Peter Bergen’s new book on Osama Bin Laden, said Al Qaeda “colonised” Afghanistan, taking advantage of the simplicity and naivety of the Taliban and their leadership, which was “deeply deferential” towards someone who hailed from Saudi Arabia, the heartland of Islam, and who also was wealthy.
| They lorded it over the rubes, and the rubes ate it up. That Talibs had a harder time of it in the west and north of the country, which are rooted in Persian civilization. The pre-ayatollah Persians weren't nearly as impressed with the Arabs, since they had a genuine civilization of their own. |
He said it should be remembered that the Soviet Union left Afghanistan not because it was “driven out” but because it was “worn out”. He said most Muslims, including Arabs, do not support the Al Qaeda philosophy or agenda.
| But many sympathize with it, even if they don't overtly support it. |
Lieven said alienated European Muslims, with their large population, are a danger to the United States. If the millions of Muslims who live in Europe become radicalised and democratic freedoms keep shrinking, that being the Al Qaeda objective, this large body of disaffected men would be a source of danger and instability to the West and the terrorist threat would become much worse than it is today.
| The situation is reversed in Europe from what it was in Algeria. The pieds noires where a substantial minority, but they were still a minority. They now live in France. The European Muslims are a substantial minority, but if they push their collective luck they could end up living back in Ratholistan. They might not like it, but the ones who aren't slaughtered will be dumped. I'd say ask the Moriscos, but they are the Moriscos. They've just forgotten that part. |
It is Al Qaeda’s strategy to keep hitting Western governments and societies so that they become radicalised and intolerant of Muslims, which, in turn, will pull Muslims into the Al Qaeda ideological net. This is the “spiral” that Al Qaeda wants Western Europe to get into, he added.
| They're just not considering the possibility that they might lose the confrontation. I'm sure our grandchildren will be deeply ashamed of how barbaric we got, but if backed into the corner the Euros will fight them with the same viciousness they fought their historical wars. |
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