Quote from: DoomRulz on Apr 19, 2013, 02:55:36 AM
I would still disagree with you. A bombing back home is a way to destabilize the country and government which causes unrest, which could very well lead to a military coup or something similar thereby allowing a terrorist group to assume power.
Their MO in this case may be typical but the target is still highly dubious. Compared to 9/11, something like this isn't big enough to make any kind of statement.
Neither should 7/7 have been, here in the UK. Still happened, though. Relatively trivial target there, too.
Go watch '
Four Lions'. Hilarious comedy, but the mindset exhibited by the characters is literally how it is a lot of the time.
Phase 1: Kill infidels.
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3:
Prophet! Bask in theological self-assurance.
Ironically, it's now being carried by a few places that at least one of them was influenced by one of those preachers who had condemned the '
Harry Potter' series for promoting 'witchcraft' and such like. Trouble is, there are an awful lot of those on State-run television in the Middle East (broadcasts of which get filtered out in viral fashion through terrorist sponsored/sympathising Web sites), who talk so much shit that certain demographics have been desensitised to it for decades. Places like MEMRI do a great job of cataloguing the really alarming stuff (the suicide-bombing HAMAS version of Mickey Mouse, telling children it's their duty to slaughter Jews in the name of God, is a classic), but there are countless examples.
I still think the solution to all of this religious craziness will ultimately be comedy. When people feel free enough to lampoon both their oppressors and what's being preached, asking questions will no longer be a taboo in those societies and the rest will follow through.
Trouble is, you need at least a limited climate of freedom of speech to allow that to happen.