Food For Thought On Islamic Terrorist

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Food For Thought On Islamic Terrorist

Why Do Radical Muslims Want to Kill Europeans?
by Khaled Abu Toameh • October 8, 2010 at 5:00 am
How true is it that Al-Qaeda's terror attacks around the world are directly linked to the Israeli-Arab conflict?

Some Middle East and terror "experts" have long maintained that the West's support for Israel was one of the main motivations behind the attacks of Al-Qaeda and other Islamic fundamentalist groups.

These "experts" have naively and foolishly endorsed Al-Qaeda Chief Osama bin Laden's argument that the terror attacks against the US and Western targets are the result of the Israeli-Arab conflict.

In the past, bin Laden justified his organization's attacks on Americans by citing continued US support for Israel as the main reason.

But now that it has been revealed that Al-Qaeda is also planning a new wave of terror attacks in Europe, it would be interesting to hear what excuse bin Laden would have this time.

If the Americans deserve to be murdered because of Washington's "bias" in favor of Israel, why are countries such as France, Britain and Germany -- which have, generally speaking, been very supportive of the Palestinians -- now on the black list of radical Islamic groups?
[source - retrieved from www.hudson-ny.org/ on 10/13/2010]

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They are at it again:

Islamic militants raid Chechen parliament, 6 dead, By MUSA SADULAYEV and SIMON SHUSTER, Associated Press Writers Musa Sadulayev And Simon Shuster, Associated Press Writers – 37 mins ago
GROZNY, Russia – Islamic insurgents attacked Chechnya's parliament Tuesday in a brazen suicide raid that left six people dead and 17 wounded, defying Kremlin claims of stability in the volatile southern region.
The three attackers drove to the tightly guarded parliament complex and got inside. One militant blew himself up at the doors and another two ran into the building shouting "Allahu akbar!" — "God is great!" in Arabic — as they opened fire on the people inside, said Chechen police spokesman Ramzan Bekkhoyev.
Chechnya's Moscow-backed regional president, Ramzan Kadyrov, sought to play down the attack, saying the assailants were killed quickly. His office said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev called him to offer assistance. Medvedev, on a visit to France, was briefed about the attack by Russian security officials.
In Washington, the U.S. offered condolences to the families of the dead and wounded.
"We also express our solidarity with Russia in the struggle against terrorism. We're concerned about continued violence in Russia's North Caucasus, which contributes to instability and personal insecurity in the region," said State Department spokesman Mark Toner. "Several independent non-governmental reports confirm that the level of violence has increased in 2010 in several North Caucasus regions, and we've been following these events closely."
Kadyrov and Russia's Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev attended a parliament session shortly after the raid. Nurgaliyev said the insurgents had tried to get into the main parliamentary chamber.
"As always, they failed. Unfortunately, we were not able to avoid loss of life," Nurgaliyev said. "The situation we saw today is extremely rare. Here, there is stability and security."
Kadyrov, a former rebel, has recruited many ex-militants into his feared security forces. The bullnecked 34-year-old former militia chief also sought to blunt the rebels' appeal with a massive construction boom in Chechnya and a campaign to impose strict Islamic values.
The ITAR-Tass news agency cited Chechnya's Interior Ministry branch as saying that the attack had been planned by warlord Khusein Gakayev who had broken loose from the main rebel commander, Doku Umarov. It said Gakayev launched the attack to try to raise his profile.
Human rights activists have accused security forces and paramilitary units under Kadyrov's command of extra-judicial killings, kidnappings and torture of rebel suspects and their relatives.
Russian troops retreated in humiliation after the first 1994-96 separatist war in Chechnya that left the region de facto independent and largely lawless. The Russian army rolled back into Chechnya in 1999 following a rebel incursion into a neighboring province and bombings at apartment buildings in Moscow and other Russian cities blamed on the militants.
While large-scale battles in Chechnya ended years ago, hit-and-run raids by the rebels have continued. In August, a shootout in Kadyrov's home village between his guards and suspected insurgents left 19 people dead, including five civilians.
Islamic insurgents also have spread quickly across neighboring provinces in Russia's predominantly Muslim North Caucasus region, which separatists strive to turn into an independent emirate that adheres to Shariah law. The insurgents are thought to be in a sporadic network of cells that shelter in the region's forested mountains.
They struck in the heart of Russia in March, when suicide bombers from Dagestan detonated explosives in the Moscow subway, killing 40 people and wounding about 100. Last month, a suicide car bombing killed 17 people and wounded more than 140 in Vladikavkaz, a major city in the North Caucasus.
These bombings followed numerous other terror attacks by Chechen rebels since the 1991 Soviet collapse, including the Beslan school siege in 2004 that ended in a bloodbath in which more than 330 people — about half of them children — were killed.
[source - retrieved from news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101019/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_caucasus_violence on 10/19/2010] ___
Shuster reported from Moscow. Associated Press writers Sergei Venyavsky in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, David Nowak and Vladimir Isachenkov contributed from Moscow.

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Hypocritical Prayer Against Will Of Almighty God (YHWH)

It is a terrible thing when servants of Almighty God (YHWH) must deal with those making hypocritical prayers against the will of Almighty God (YHWH) that violent false religion be exposed, such as Islam, just because the majority of the members of false religion are neither violent nor wicked people. It reminds me of the time of the Prophet Elijah and King Ahab who was married to the wicked Jezebel who tried to eliminate all the prophets of Almighty God (YHWH) that exposed the wicked false religion she was promoting. Now here is an account of what happened to the priest of this wicked false religion and how Elijah exposed this false religion to all the nominal followers who were not really wicked people, but just mislead people as found at 1 Kings 18:17-40:

17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table.
20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
21 ¶ And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.
31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. (Authorized King James Bible; AV)

I recommend all read 1 Kings Chapter 16 to Chapter 19 in inspired word of Almighty God (YHWH), the Bible.

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Man Arrested in Alleged Washington Metro Terror Plot
Updated: 15 hours 4 minutes ago [source - retrieved from www.aolnews.com/article/pakis...-plot/19692022 on 10/28/2010]
Hugh Collins Contributor

(Oct. 27) -- A Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was arrested today for allegedly plotting a series of bomb attacks on Metrorail stations in the Washington, D.C., area, federal officials said.

Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., is accused of providing material assistance to people he believed to be affiliated with al-Qaida, the Department of Justice said.

He believed they were planning a series of attacks on Metro stations in 2011, the Justice Department said.

Definitely he was NOT adhering to Christ commandment at Matthew 19:19, “Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (Authorized King James Bible; AV). All should love their neighbors and not seek to kill them – very telling of this type of person is their hate for their neighbors and their new country.

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Obama: Terror explosives found, bound for US
Obama says terrorist explosives discovered, bound for US from Yemen by cargo jet
[source - retrieved from finance.yahoo.com/news/Obama-Terror-explosives-found-apf-49044245.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&ccode= on 10/29/2010]
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This handout photo provided by the White House shows President Barack Obama briefed by members of his national security team in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/White House, Pete Souza)
Eileen Sullivan and Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press, On Friday October 29, 2010, 4:46 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama declared Friday that authorities had uncovered a "credible terrorist threat" against the United States following the overseas discovery of U.S.-bound packages containing explosives aboard cargo jets.

Obama said both had been addressed to Jewish organizations in the Chicago area.

The disclosures triggered a worldwide alert amid fears that al-Qaida was attempting to carry out fresh terror attacks.

The events "underscore the necessity of remaining vigilant against terrorism," the president said. The packages both originated in Yemen, but Obama did not explicitly assign blame to al-Qaida, which is active in the Arab nation and long has made clear its goal of attacking the United States.

The events unfolded four days before national elections in which discussion of terrorism has played almost no role.

Obama stepped to the podium in the hours after officials disclosed that authorities in Dubai intercepted an explosive device bound for a Chicago-area Jewish institution. The second package was aboard a plane searched in England, and officials said it contained a printer toner cartridge with wires and powder.

That second package was aboard a plane in East Midlands, north of London.

Obama did not identify any institution that had been targeted.

Several other cargo planes at airports along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States also were searched, and officials said no explosives were found. An Emirates Airlines passenger jet carrying cargo from Yemen was escorted from the Canadian border to New York City by two military fighter jets, U.S. officials said. They said it was a precautionary action.

An FBI spokesman in Chicago, Ross Rice, said both suspicious packages had been sent from the same address in Yemen.


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FBI asks how subway bomb defendant was radicalized
By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press [source - retrieved from www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/29/fbi-asks-how-subway-bomb-defendant-was-radicalized/ on 10/29/2010] -
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents who ensnared a suburban father in a terrorism sting involving a fictional subway bomb plot have turned their attention to figuring out what may have made the Pakistani-born U.S. citizen turn against his adopted country.
Law-enforcement officials said they believe Farooque Ahmed was radicalized in the United States, becoming the latest in a string of U.S. citizens radicalized here, and charged with plotting terrorist attacks.
FBI agents were tipped off to Mr. Ahmed in January, when a source inside the Muslim community said the 34-year-old telecommunications worker was asking around, trying to join a terrorist group and kill Americans overseas, the officials said. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation continues.
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Mr. Perren said Mr. Ahmed is part o***rowing trend of would-be terrorists who don't receive formal training abroad and operate without direction from al Qaeda leaders overseas. On Thursday, the FBI and Homeland Security Department issued a law-enforcement bulletin saying they remained concerned about homegrown terrorists.
"They know the geography. They're astute to Western culture," Mr. Perren said.
Like many would-be terrorists and sympathizers, Mr. Ahmed was potentially influenced by Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical Muslim cleric who preached in northern Virginia until 2002 and now lives in hiding in Yemen, officials said. But while Mr. Ahmed listened to al-Awlaki's Internet sermons, officials said the two were not in contact and they're not sure how influential those sermons were.

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US-bound bomb could have exploded, downed plane
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Eileen Sullivan And Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press – 18 mins ago [source - retrieved from news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101030/ap_on_bi_ge/mail_bombs on 10/30/2010]

WASHINGTON – At least one of the mail bombs shipped to the United States could have detonated and downed a cargo plane if undiscovered, a British official said Saturday as investigators hunted for terrorists in Yemen.

The results of Britain's preliminary investigation escalated the seriousness of a plot that investigators said bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida.

U.S. investigators have said the mail bombs found in the United Arab Emirates and England Friday were headed to two synagogues in Chicago. British Home Secretary Theresa May said the plane carrying the package from Yemen may have been the target, too.

"We do not believe that the perpetrators of the attack would have known the location of the device when they planned for it to explode," she said Saturday. "At this stage we have no information to indicate another terrorist attack is imminent."

A second package was discovered in Dubai, where white powder explosives were discovered in the ink cartridge of a printer, police said in a statement. The device was rigged to an electric circuit, and a mobile phone chip was hidden inside the printer, the statement said.
Both bombs contained the industrial explosive PETN, the same chemical used in the failed Christmas bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner. Al-Qaida's Yemen branch took responsibility for that attack.

The bombs were rigged to be activated by cell phone and a timer, but investigators have not found either of those devices, said Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., a member of the House Homeland Security Committee who was briefed on the investigation Saturday morning.
Several U.S. officials said they were increasingly confident that al-Qaida's Yemen branch, the group behind the Christmas attack, was responsible.

Investigators were taking a close look at the group's bomb making expert, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, who helped make the bomb used in the Christmas attack and another PETN device used against a top Saudi counterterrorism official last year, a U.S. intelligence official said. The Saudi official survived the blast but it killed the suicide bomber.

"The forensic analysis is under way," Obama's counterterror chief John Brennan said. "Clearly from the initial observation, the initial analysis that was done, the materials that were found in the device that was uncovered was intended to do harm."

Yemeni authorities were checking dozens more packages in the search for the terrorists who sent the bombs, though there were no signs of additional explosives. Authorities questioned cargo workers at the airport as well as employees of the local shipping companies contracted to work with FedEx and UPS, a Yemeni security official said.

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Arrest in Yemen in bomb plot; more suspects sought, By EILEEN SULLIVAN and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Eileen Sullivan And Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press – 2 hrs 15 mins ago [source - retrieved from news.yahoo.com/s/ap/mail_bombs on 10/30/2010]
WASHINGTON – Yemeni authorities arrested a woman Saturday and searched for other suspects linked to al-Qaida's Persian Gulf faction in the plot to mail bombs powerful enough to down a cargo plane.
Officials said the woman was detained as part of a widening search for people believed to have used forged documents and ID cards in the plot thwarted Friday. Authorities on three continents scrambled to check planes from Philadelphia to central England, recovering two live explosive devices addressed to two synagogues in Chicago.
The dragnet in Yemen and the results of a preliminary investigation into one of the bombs in Britain reflected the seriousness of a plot that investigators said bore all the hallmarks of al-Qaida. Yemeni officials said the suspects were believed linked to al-Qaida in the Arab Peninsula, the group's affiliate in the Persian Gulf.
Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, told reporters that the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates had provided information that helped identify the woman as a suspect.
Two security officials told The Associated Press the woman was arrested in the al-Rawdah district near the airport in San'a, Yemen's capital. "According to our information, a woman has sent the packages through the agents (companies)," Saleh said in his briefing.
One of the Yemeni officials, a member of the country's anti-terrorism unit and close to the Yemeni team probing the case, said the other suspects had been tied to al-Qaida's faction in Yemen.
Several U.S. officials said they increasingly are confident of the involvement of al-Qaida's Yemen branch, the group behind the failed Detroit airliner bombing last Christmas. A Nigerian-born passenger tried to set off a bomb packed with PETN, an industrial explosive that was the same potent ingredient used in the mail bombs found Friday. But the suspect's underwear detonator failed to operate properly.
U.S. officials said al-Qaida's explosives expert in Yemen, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, was the likely suspect behind the bombmaking. Al-Asiri helped make the bomb used in the Christmas attack and another PETN device used in a failed suicide attack against the top Saudi counterterrorism official last year, officials said.

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90%-95% OF ALL THE CONFLICTS ON THIS PLANET TODAY
INVOLVE MUSLIMS FIGHTING NON-MUSLIMS OR EACH OTHER!
There are many trouble spots around the world, but as a general rule, it's easy to make an educated guess at one of the participants: Muslims vs. Jews in "Palestine," Muslims vs. Hindus in Kashmir, Muslims vs. Christians in Africa, Muslims vs. Buddhists in Thailand, Muslims vs. Russians in the Caucasus, etc...
ISLAM: "Religion of Peace?" [source - retrieved from www.masada2000.org/islam.html on 11/01/2010]

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Robert Pape: Blaming Suicide Bombings on the 'Occupation'
by Jared Sorhaindo
FrontPage Magazine
November 24, 2010

frontpagemag.com/2010/11/24/robert-pape-blaming-suicide-bombings-on-the-occupation-2/

www.campus-watch.org/article/id/10449


Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, gave a lecture titled "Cutting the Fuse: Moving Beyond the War on Terror" on October 28, 2010, at Georgetown University. The room in which it was held was packed to full capacity, which gives an idea of his celebrity.

Pape has garnered much attention and influence in recent years for his thesis that the vast majority of suicide bombings—"well over 95 percent of them," as he put it— are motivated by foreign military occupation. The goal is tactical: to kick out the occupying power. Pape expanded on this thesis, noting that he approaches the study of suicide bombings as an oncologist approaches the study of lung cancer and, as such, has concluded that foreign occupation triggers suicide bombings in the same way smoking triggers lung cancer. Therefore, he proposed, ending foreign occupation should eliminate the majority of suicide bombings. The remaining examples would just be "flukes," such as victims of lung cancer who never smoked a day in their life.

Pape explained that while strong religious beliefs can serve as the immediate trigger for a suicide bombing, religious fervor is often a byproduct of helplessness, which, again, allegedly stems from occupation. He summed it up:

From Lebanon to the West Bank, from Iraq to Afghanistan…the main goal has been to gain self determination from a foreign occupier.

In support of his thesis, Pape noted that the world's leading suicide bombers between 1980 and 2003 were the Tamil Tigers, a secular Marxist group in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, he argued, Hezbollah has not committed a single suicide bombing since Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon in 2000. Yet Pape's premise is fallacious, as it presumes that Syrian troops, which were stationed in Lebanon until the Cedar Revolution of 2005—five years after Israel's withdrawal—were not occupation forces. Given the massive demonstrations against the Syrians and their constant interference in Lebanese affairs—including a possible role in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which sparked the revolution—Pape proffers a selective definition of "occupation."

Pape's thesis also ignores massive Iranian support for Hezbollah and the terrorist organization's possible role in Hariri's assassination. Earlier this month, this ostensibly benign army undertook a simulated takeover of Lebanon should the international tribunal investigating Hariri's assassination find Hezbollah culpable. Pape thereby employs a double-standard: Israeli troops are foreign occupiers, while Arab troops occupying Arab countries are ignored.

Much of Pape's talk centered on the "martyrdom" videos of four of the 9/11 hijackers and two from the July 7, 2005, bombings in London, as well as a video from American-born al-Qaeda propagandist Adam Gadahn—all of which entail railing about the evils of American and British imperialism. According to Pape, Gadahn did not discuss Islam as a religion; rather, his message was "a plea for his brethren under foreign occupation." He concluded that "if you remove the foreign occupation, you remove the root of their deep-seated anger."

Perhaps, but this approach is easier said than done. Moreover, to an Islamist, foreign occupation means something much different than it does to a Westerner. Should the Spanish relinquish their territory so that bin Laden and his ilk can stop pining over Andalusia? Should Israel simply vacate the West Bank tomorrow or, going further, unilaterally commit seppuku (after all, Palestine is considered an Islamic waqf, or trusteeship, endowed by God)?

Pape lacks an understanding of the genius of al-Qaeda—and other terrorist groups—as a propaganda organization. Although driven by radical Islamic theology, they know that Westerners care deeply about racism, colonialism, the environment, and other such causes, so they appeal to these left-wing talking points to gain the sympathy, or at least empathy, of their Western audiences. They find a willing dupe in Middle East studies academia, with Robert Pape himself serving as a pungent example.

Pape also failed to mention that many of the suicide bombings that have occurred in Iraq involved Sunni perpetrators acting against Shiite targets—the June 13, 2007, terrorist attack on the Great Mosque in Samarra, for example. Such attacks, which are ongoing, are obviously not directed at foreign occupiers, but, rather, are manifestations of the Sunni-Shiite divide. Shiites have been persecuted and even massacred throughout much of Islam's history, and still are today in Saudi Arabia. Likewise, Shiites have persecuted Sunnis in Persia. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, despised Shiites for theological reasons and wanted to murder them en masse. How does all this fit in Pape's paradigm?

This is not to say that foreign occupation does not cause resentment or play a part in inspiring suicide bombing operations. However, Pape's attempt to create a universal explanation based on such resentment is erroneous. Different people have different motivations. The motivation of al-Qaeda and its ilk is to kill as many infidels as possible for the sake of the ummah (Community of the Believers). This is the ultimate, unquestionable end-game that overrides any expedient complaints about foreign occupation. Moreover, there is a whole religious and sociological pathology involved in suicide bombings that has little or nothing to do with the West.

Pape's thesis may apply in some cases, but by flippantly refuting anything that goes against his thesis, he is blindly refusing to consider other motivations.

Jared Sorhaindo is an MA candidate at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University concentrating in Middle East Studies and international economics, and an intern for the Middle East Forum. He wrote this article for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.