One answer could be the media, and how ‘the war’ gets the attention that the newsmakers want. But I’m not really a fan of blaming the media for everything. Who funds the media, what are their interests, who do they associate & do business with? That’s a better place to look, but there are too many questions involved to get into that here.

A simpler angle would be to consider the effects of the United States’ foreign policy in the past 60 years VS. the effects of the Islamic fundamentalists.

American (and I hate that term, because it isn’t accurate)… American influence is felt far more than Islamic influence, if there is such a thing, in most ‘western’ societies. The Yanks are an easy target because we know more about them. Bottom line.

How much do people know about Islamic extremists? How much do people know about their leaders and policies, or lack therof?

I think everyone should check out a documentary called THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES.

I think you can read about it at http://bbc.co.uk/nightmares

cheers. j!

It would be nice to see you start a blog.

And I’m being respectful here when I say this.

Lemme know, please, if you decide to start one.

It might take a while to get used to this change, and you might have to actually do some research into the subject since criticism of America is so much easier to come by.

Then do something about it—write a protest song, or make a documentary, or do a painting or drawing—that expresses your feelings about the innocent lives that are lost everyday in the name of Allah.

The KKK is a good point of comparison. These people are like the KKK but armed to the teeth, and at war with ordinary people who just want to live their lives. And where is the outrage? There is none. None whatsoever. Just constant bitching about the United States.

So yeah I know that nobody is saying anything. That is exactly the problem in my view.

SHUT UP

In fact, the only country on the planet earth not guilty of some kind of “Empire” ambitions would be New Zealand (except, what happened to the natives there when the white man came?) or perhaps the U.S. While the U.S. might fight unnecessary wars, they don’t do it in order to commit genocide, to impose Koranic law or to simply annex the land as part of some American empire.

I don’t mean to be uncivil but you just kind of proved my point from earlier. I just don’t understand why people downplay the actual system that Islamic extremists actually are fighting for. I have been to Tunisia and what I saw there horrified me (in terms of the way women are treated) however that’s nothing compared to a true “Sharia” type Islamic Republic, such as Iran or Saudi Arabia or the Taliban.

But beyond that, imagine if these people were suddenly running the show, instead of America, Great Britian, and “The West”.

And I think these people are actually scarier that the people you’re talking about.

But they’re “anti-America” so that makes them cool, yeah?

I agree with the notion that idiots are everywhere, and there are no “bad countries” per se. Sometimes I wonder about whether one should buy a largish island with plenty of everything and declare it “no idiots” zone. Would be crowded as as hell though, and also mean submission to escapism. Nevertheless the idea is tempting, too many idiots have too much detrimental influence on my and everybody elses lives.