It is not surprising to see that most of those suspected and eventually proved guilty of Islamist-related terrorism are immigrants or have an immigrant background. This person having been arrested most recently is reported to have a Bangla Deshi background. Most of those who have been arrested for the same charges in the UK are either UK citizens with some Pakistani-related ancestry, or native converts. Those flying the planes to crash in the World Trade were foreign students from Yemen or Morocco at a university in Northern Germany.
All of them were affiliated with local mosques known to preach hatred of Western societies and their life-style.
What does motivate people to get involved in such extremist circles that are the places to start for developing into a terrorist?
There is no clear-cut answer. But one thing is for sure, and that is that somehow these people must have had a special problem of integration into a society that granted them the freedom to live and study there and even provided them with the basic "needs" for their terrorist activities (training in flying the airplanes that crashed in the World Trade Centre, for example).
The doctrine of a religion, whether Christian or non-Christian, never provides a sufficient reason to murder and kill thousands of people, even if those committing such terrible crimes would claim the same. Those justifying the murder of thousands of people in the name of (any) religion are self-styled authorities without any legitimacy.
One of the more structural problems in Islam is that there is no official teaching office in terms of doctrine, an institution that Christian churches, for example, have. In Islam, anyone without sufficient religious training, can become the imam of a local mosque as long as he is deemed to be a "pious" Muslim. The latter is open to all kinds of arbitrary interpretation, and if you have an imam who thinks and preaches that Western societies with its high potentials of individual freedom are ruled by "devils", then this will eventually bear its tragic and disastrous fruits.
In closing, let me state that I think the FBI did an excellent job by observing and arresting this person.
Socialism and religiously based extremism are two sides of the same coin that is most likely to undermine the freedom of Western society.
With all respect, I do not intend to lecture you on Islam and on what a Muslim is.
But do you think that the criteria listed below make a real Muslim?
I, for my part, can see a lot of irony and sarcasm in the criteria listed below.
I just can tell you that about 30 % of the Kenyan population are muslims, and most of them are not like that!
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All of them were affiliated with local mosques known to preach hatred of Western societies and their life-style.
What does motivate people to get involved in such extremist circles that are the places to start for developing into a terrorist?
There is no clear-cut answer. But one thing is for sure, and that is that somehow these people must have had a special problem of integration into a society that granted them the freedom to live and study there and even provided them with the basic "needs" for their terrorist activities (training in flying the airplanes that crashed in the World Trade Centre, for example).
The doctrine of a religion, whether Christian or non-Christian, never provides a sufficient reason to murder and kill thousands of people, even if those committing such terrible crimes would claim the same. Those justifying the murder of thousands of people in the name of (any) religion are self-styled authorities without any legitimacy.
One of the more structural problems in Islam is that there is no official teaching office in terms of doctrine, an institution that Christian churches, for example, have. In Islam, anyone without sufficient religious training, can become the imam of a local mosque as long as he is deemed to be a "pious" Muslim. The latter is open to all kinds of arbitrary interpretation, and if you have an imam who thinks and preaches that Western societies with its high potentials of individual freedom are ruled by "devils", then this will eventually bear its tragic and disastrous fruits.
In closing, let me state that I think the FBI did an excellent job by observing and arresting this person.
Socialism and religiously based extremism are two sides of the same coin that is most likely to undermine the freedom of Western society.
With all respect, I do not intend to lecture you on Islam and on what a Muslim is.
But do you think that the criteria listed below make a real Muslim?
I, for my part, can see a lot of irony and sarcasm in the criteria listed below.
I just can tell you that about 30 % of the Kenyan population are muslims, and most of them are not like that!
Quote:You Might Be a Muslim if--
1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to liquor.
2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes.
3. You have more wives than teeth.
4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon unclean.
5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.
6. You can't think of anyone you haven't declared Jihad against.
7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing.
8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.
9. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least four.
10. Your cousin is president of the United States.
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