> I know that some listers are struggling to understand the obvious, the
> bombers were motivated by an Islamist belief, not an anti-imperialist one.
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Unless I've gotten serious memory deficits in the last 24 hours I don't recall anyone on the list asserting that the attack on the London subway/bus system was an anti-imperialist or Islamist -inspired act of cruelty, only that there was a causal connection between what happened and the invasion/occupation of Iraq.
While the attack is causally overdetermined, it is, at this point in time, theoretically underdetermined and the contending hypotheses that are thus far proffered shouldn't become yet another occasion for zero-sum oneupmanship rituals with their attendant misrepresentations, exploitations of textual indeterminacy yada yada.....
Ian
> Abd Samad Moussauoi cites some of the propaganda that inspired his brother,
> Zacarias Moussaoui to get involved in the World Trade Center bombing:
>
> "Today a Muslim society no longer exists, there is no more Islam and there
> are no more Muslims. Muslim society will only come back into being when
> existing regimes have been destroyed and given way to a power which respects
> divine intervention to the letter. All the societies in the world, with no
> exceptions, are idolatrous and full of infidels, conscious that authority
> belongs only to God. For when a man dares to invent laws, he proclaims
> himself the equal of God. And all peoples which subject themselves to such a
> man without resistance or rebellion are in a state of adoration of him by
> their obedience to him. The true Muslim today is the Muslim who makes jihad
> against all governments whose legislation is human in origin, in order to
> topple them and reinstate divine legislation.' (The Making of a Terrorist, p
> 49)
>
> Everyone is an apostate, all human government is wicked. That is not an
> anti-Imperialist ideology, is is an anti-human one. It legitimates killing
> people of all colours, and all religions, including Muslims who live in
> law-governed societies.
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