It's NOT Us!!!!

One of the most common justifications for attacks on America given by Muslim terrorists is America's foreign policy, especially her support for Israel. The idea goes something like this: if America wouldn't support Israel, which is supposedly brutalizing Arabs/Muslims, Muslims wouldn't have to fight against her. This idea has caught on in Europe and is catching on among left-wing, "anti-war" people in America. This "it's America's foreign policy" argument is just a variation on the Left's "Blame America First" ideology, and I say bullcrap to all of it. The only people who are to blame for Islamic terrorism are Muslims; the only belief system to blame for Islamic terrorism is Islam. Don't think so? Then consider this.

For centuries the British oppressed the Irish people and are still doing so, some feel, in Northern Ireland. The Irish have grievances against Britain that go far deeper than any grievances the Palestinians have against Israel. The Irish Republican Army, or IRA, began its most well-known campaign, called The Troubles, against the British in the late 1960's, carrying out all manner of terrorist attacks the most infamous of which was the murder of Prince Charles' uncle, Lord Mountbatten. During that time America was ( and remains) Britain's stauchest ally, condemning the IRA's killing sprees and giving the British government great moral support. But the IRA never attacked America. Not once in the history of The Troubles did IRA terrorists bomb an American embassy, assassinate an American diplomat, kidnap American citizens, or hijack American planes and fly them into the World Trade Center. The IRA never did any of these things and then justified them by pointing to America's alliance with Britain.

The question, of course, is why not. The answer is that IRA terrorists weren't Muslim terrorists. The IRA understood that its beef was with the British government alone, and not with every government allied with Britain. And why did the IRA understand that? Because it didn't, and doesn't, follow an imperialist religion that compels its believers to violently convert the world. And make no mistake, that's what Islamic terrorism is really about: global conquest.

The goal is nothing less than conversion of all people to Islam and the total subjugation or elimination of those who won't. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is just an excuse for a global jihad that Islamists would be waging anyway; it's something the Islamists can whine about to their leftist, secular sympathizers who just wouldn't understand their religious motives. But the cold, hard truth is that Islamists would hate America and the West even if Israel and all their other grievances didn't exist. They hate us because their religion tells them to and we'd better drop our pc blinders and face up to that fact or we won't have a snowball's chance in hell of saving our civilization.