Quote from: Vertigo on Apr 18, 2013, 05:14:49 PM
Er, no they don't. They mainly try to kill as many people as possible, and create as much terror as possible. They're genocidal psychopaths, not political activists.
They are just as political as they are religious psychopaths. Islamism is by definition political. It's a politicized activist (and quite often militant and extreme) take and stance on Islam as the means on how to run a society and its people. A kind of major and well coordinated attack like this one, if it would've been Islamist terrorists, on foreign soil (foreign to them), would not have been aimed at something as trivial as a marathon. Sure, it causes terror and has an impact on our society and such, but still. A marathon?
Then, on the other hand, it could be an isolated Islamist terror group/cell who are not that picky and are acting on their own. Who knows?
Maybe they're trying out new strategies and tactics?
Even so I still think this terrorist attack is way more domestic than that and has very little to do with our shortcomings in the Middle-East.
QuoteIt is unusual for them not to take credit, but we have no idea about the circumstances of whoever did it. Maybe it's an isolated cell who intended to leave the country before releasing videos, or something like that.
Like I said, who knows? My bets are still on what's brewing in our own backyard.
QuoteThough again, as Islamic extremist terrorists are motivated by beliefs rather than a political agenda, they don't actually further their aims by taking credit.
Well, if you are a person who believes there is a holy war going on and you want to fire up your fellow holy warriors all over the world, one of the best ways to set that spark aflame is to take 'credit' for it: "We blew up x! Now follow our lead! The game is on" ...or something like that. Saying "we did it" inspires the like-minded.
And like I wrote earlier in this post Islamic extremists (aka Militant Islamists aka Islamist Activists aka Islamist Extremists etc.) are very much political. Islamism = Just another case of religion and politics conjoined instead of being separated.
