IF AMERICA sought approval from ISLAMIC CLERICS for all our "FOREIGN POLICY", would ISLAMIC TERROR stop?
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not likely...I don't think they would ever be happy
962927
Would that it were so.  Unfortunately, I think the religious right still wields an inordinate amount of sway in the United States and will continue to interfere with government's ability to deal with more pressing issues.
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This is my answer from a similar question (link in the sources).  Since many of these Islamic countries are allies of the USA, the answer is "no".  The only groups these countries must "fight back" against are the extremists in one, very numerous, sect of Sunni Islam.\n\nHere is the old answer:\nThe whole Islamic world is not even, or will ever be, allied with itself. I realize that American public education and our universities fail miserably at teaching the truth about other cultures, so here is a run down.\n\nThere are two main sects in Islam (not Muslim as being "Muslim" is a state of Islam, akin to "Nirvana"). These are the Sunnis and the Shia. The Sunnis think the Shia are apostates and traitors to Islam. Within the Sunni sect, there are several other subsects of which Whabbasism is just one. Trying to get all these sects to agree on what day it even is is difficult enough. Having them unite as one is almost impossible. \n\nThis is further complicated by the fact African, Far Eastern, and Indonesian Islamists don't like the Arabs, or each other. Al Qeada's pay and command structure further infuriated non-Arab Islamic people. Old Bin Lying doesn't pay non-Arabs as much as Arabs or let them be as high ranking in his clubhouse. Plus, the genocide in Sudan and other parts is being caused by Islamic Arabs killing Islamic Africans, along with Christian Africans. BTW, Islam refers to Jesus Christ as a prophet and pays homage to him (Guess Bin Lying forgot to read that part of the Quran!).\n\nMixed into this further the tribal and clan nature of the Middle East and Africa. The US, USSR, UK, and others have always been able to fracture the alliances by either buying off a clan or allowing the clans to fight themselves, which is usually what happens without Western involvement.\n\nAnd to top it off, a large and growing number of Islamic peoples do not hate America or what it is doing. Efforts in Afghanistan, Kuwait, Indonesia, Pakistan, and other areas where the US Military and NGOs go in are paying monumental dividends.\n\nIraqis are siding with the USA, as are Jordanians, as are the oppressed people of Iran (they just can't do much about it right now.. such is what always happens when you disarm the people). Then there are the Pastdun people of Pakistan, who, after Al Qeada abandoned them following the massive earthquake that killed 80,000+, saw the ones who rushed in was...come on, guess....That's right, the USA! And who sent massive aid to Indonesia, dispite the lies from leftists in the UN? The USA wins there too by sending very high level, and possibly vulnerable assets to the disaster area. Just like we did for Katrina later, the US military sent assault ships, one of our two hospital ships, and an aircraft carrier without its fighters but loaded with supplies and helos (the USS Kittyhawk) to the area. These efforts speak volumes to the people of the area and cause a rift between them and our enemies.\n\nSo, yes, we stand a great chance since the Islamic world is difficult to unite and easy to fracture.
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both, kind of. Religion and polictics feed off each other and when you mix them together..boom. Islam being one of the largest religions out there in conjunction with not many people liking america in general feeds the violence present today. While the warcry for islam increases, many muslims view the actions of the US and its presence in the Middle East as an intrusion of Christian oppressors in a Muslim land. Need I remind you of the Crusades?
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We have fostered most of the terrorism ourselves.  We started and funded Osama in Afghanistan, training many of his people.  We funded and supported Saddam, even when he gassed the Kurds.  We support dictatorships all over the Middle East, while lusting after their oil.  We establish military bases from Israel to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.  We are trying to bully the region.  Our presence used to be just arrogant.  Now I can't imagine the words the locals use for us.  We are despised across the region for the hypocrisy and imbalance of our  policies, and now we have invaded two of their neighbors, in one without any just cause.  Our next threat is to Iran.  We must examine our own behavior before  we go tossing out terms like terrorist.  We have terrorized more people, and for a much longer time, than anyone has terrorized us.  The weapons  you speak of  are in our own hands.  Perhaps we might just consider putting them down.
1096378
I'd like to stop a terrorist plot to blow something up, where hundreds of people might not be killed because some radicl islamic lunatic thinks he's doing gods work.
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Not only is it a possibility it is very likely. The US employees Intelligence Tatics (CIA, and secret military units) overseas. These units live in the country as nationals, speak the language, have a job and so on. They are there in case they ever needed and would be the preemptive strike in the event of war with that country. This is fact that these units are there, not conspiracy theory.\nWould not be easier in the US for people of another country to do the same thing? I mean in American we preach diversity, we teach foreign child in their own language at our tax payers expense. We embrace multi-culturism and acceptance. Would it not be easy for a Muslim terrorist group to form within a government protected Muslim church? \nI am not saying that all Muslims are terrorist, but with our acceptance of diverse cultures and the lack of assimilation that is desired by many Americans, the extreme Muslims who are terrorist could come to American and fit in quite nicely.
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NEOCONS WISH IT WAS.  THEY'D BE HAPPY WITH AN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN TALIBAN GOVERNMENT. I WISH THEY'D MOVE TO IRAN.  THEY'D BE HAPPY WITH THAT CHURCH RAN STATE.
532755
Probably, unless we want a mad man to build a nuclear bomb & blow up Israel - his wordes not mine or President Bush's words. Are you willing to sacrifice Israel & do you believe The President of Iran will stop with one country if no one stops him. The world will truly be his unless some stops him, as the greatest world power that falls to The United States. As a mother of a solidier it is not with pleasure that this is said. God bless our Military!
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hmm, there was this thing that happened in our history, what was it,\n\noh yes,  for the last 15 to 1400 years the radical muslim islamic movement has been killing civilians in order to make the whole planet an islamic caliphate,\n\nI could give you the BS answer of September 11 but there is a history on Earth of this movement again and again trying to take over governments,\n\none example that comes to mind is China in 1421, where the progress of that nation that was ahead of the rest of the world 400 years came to a hault, \n\nso it is a threat because of a) I kind of like the progress of science, b) i don't want to worship their fu(king god allah, and c) I kind of like my wife geting an education and getting to go to work and not having to wear no god damned vail, and d) I like voting for my leaders, the american constition, and of course e) my civil liberites, right to trial by jury afforded my via US constitution,\n\nmy advice to the US govt,  find all muslims that want to kill civilians and have the means to do so, money, weapons, and kill them first,\nsecond, convince islamic leaders and leaders in these countries to not spread the seeds of hate, for the true religion is a peaceful one
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no. i dont know. india cant do what america did. thats not going to stop the bombings. maybe they should try to teach the muslims there to be more open. im muslim, from malaysia, and in my country the beautiful thing is all cultures, hindu, buddhist, muslim, we all get along. alot of us muslims are religious but we know to respect the other religions. maybe india should be like us? :p
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No, and if we have any objections, ie humanitarian or otherwise, they should be handled in a CIVILIZED manner...ie. diplomatically with pressure from the UN...right now it's a joke because it's been undermined and not taken seriously because other forces seem to think they have all the authority...so no one respects their power...and the danger is every country starts doing whatever it wants...which is threatening to the entire world population and much more dangerous than what is happening in one little, be it pathetic, little country.\n\nTHe middle east IS MIDDLE AGE and always will be...their ways will never change because their religion is what keeps them living the way they do...so who cares...let them live however they choose...but where we went wrong is letting other religions change OUR religious rights in our own country.  They should be tolerated but we shouldn't have to shrink back from what we believe either, but we have no right to go to their country and demand they change to our way of life, just to ensure that there is no abuse of people...that much is just plain intolerable and no religion should or would condone that...that is a man made rule to terrorize and control.
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The short answer is 'No'. I think it is hard to define what you put as "Anglo-American" powers.  Do you mean the West, or specifically England and the United States?  In any event, we must realize that neither the West nor the Islamic world is a monolithic entity.  There are widely varrying strains and currents throughout both.  From a strategic perspective, the US is unrivaled.  From an ideological perspective, there are ongoing shifts toward conservativism and fundementalism in both the West and the Arab world.  These shifts are largely reactionary to the rise of globalism.  Ultimately the historical trend toward openness and integration, driven by a global economy, will overcome zenophobic impulses in both the West and the entire Islamic world.
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Wow, crazy. Bush no doubt will decline it though. If Osama is serious, I wish we could call a truce and end this.
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Yes killing them all would be the quick answer.\nBUT.\nThe truth is.\nWe have to allow their children to do more then learn to hate us.\nMost of the older generations of Islamist in the Middle East have grown up learning only to hate anybody that is not like them.\nIts not just us they want to kill.Look at what is Happening in France,Germany, and the rest of the European world, they are being swallowed up by Islamist who have no desire but to rid this world of all but Islam.They state it daily, and raise their children to feel the same way.\nDont forget, the Middle Easterners have television, and the net ,But what they see is restricted to only what their Islamic leaders want them to see.\nA perfect example of what I am saying is with the Kurds, They became tired of the death and destruction, and started to build a free society, That is why Saddam was killing them by the thousands, their quest for freedom was a threat to the Islamic way. But after we freed them again they have begun to thrive as a democracy,They have electricity, schools, hospitals,Their women are treated as equals,and they are beginning to grow in peace. You dont hear anything about it, because it would Further support what Bush is trying to do in the rest of that forsaken land,\nThe answer lies in the children.\nP.S. Any body that has the ability to think independantly, and do their own research would realise that no matter what we did or didnt do in the past would not keep the Islamic freaks from trying to kill us, the real problem that we have in this country, is that they have learned how to use the "willing media", as well as a few Anti American politicians to fool the weak minded in this country. Hint Hint COLD STONE
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If the Christian Right in the U.S. keeps going the way they are now, with wanting to limit free speech (ban books, tv shows, etc), control women's reproductive rights, impose religious beliefs in schools, etc, then the U.S. would effectively look just the same as an Islamist country.\n\n"And why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, and not notice the beam which is in your own eye?" Matthew 7:3 (WEY)
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I think that you are a bit too worried. I do not believe that that is happening in such a degree that we have to be worried. I know that if it starts it has to be stopped while it is possible, but I do not see how it can catch on to everybody else. Yes, there are political leaders who are willing to create policy based on religion, but I believe that the majority in power will successfully oppose those voices.\nIf it would happen, then it will be theoretically like an Islamic state. Of course, because of Christian morals are far less aggressive than Islamic morals it will not look like an Islamic state, but it is scary to believe that it is not like that just because of the morals.