Brother/Sister i never blamed the US for anything, i blamed the west. You really have to remove yourself from this wave of foolish patriotism, wrong is wrong, no matter who says it or who does it. My allegence is to no country, no flag but to humanity as a whole, and when i see social/economic systems which produce vast inequalities in wealth redistribution i will denounce them, when i see countries spending vast amounts of money on war and nuclear weapons rather than on programms of social uplift i will denounce them, when i see so called Christian leaders( and this is not only Bush as Blair,Chirac etc are all Christians too) paying lip service to proper humanitarian trade agreements/debt cancelations i will denounce that also.
Islamist terror, which is also properly denounced by Muslims and Catholics like the Holy Father isnt fueled by the Quran or the the Old Testement but rather by reality. History shows time and time again that Fascism/Marxism/Terrorism all prevail when people are faced with extreme poverty or injustice. The Russian revolution was the direct result of the economic strains of a poorly run backward society which esculated with WW1, the workers/peasents were hungry and starving and so were their families, so they turned their ear to Lenin and Marxism. The Nazi party benefited amazingly from the Wall Street Crash and the post Versaille economic constraints, when wall street crashed, unemployment shot up, money was worth nothing, food was scarce, famlies were hungry and they voted for the evil that was Hitler as a way out.
Terrorism is the same, if i were the father of a family who worked 12 hours a day in the most appauling conditions, being paid less that $1 a day and came home to find my baby girl had died due to hunger, and my wife was crying her eyes out because we didnt have enough food left to make it to the end of the week, i might start asking myself some serious questions. Or if i came from a country say Iraq which had just been illegally invaded by Western(note i do say western) forces, where one of these very very expensive weapons had accidently blown up my 3 kids school killing them and more innocent children, i wouldnt need the Koran to make me think that i wanted revenge. Especially when i realised that in the same world, my same brothers and sisters were living in big homes, being paid high saleries, going on brilliant holidays, driving nice cars, having so much food that a great deal of it is wasted, i think i too might be a little annoyed.
If you want to properly get rid of terrorism you have to get rid of the causes of terrorism- injustice. Bombing only brings enemies regardless of how logical and well intentioned the motives are. As Jesus correcty stated ’ He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword’ and isnt he more than ever correct today.
