Just a question, I hope you all dont jump at my throat Options

[Too Exclusive]

Here's an honest question. I hope you guys don't think that asking questions is terrorist-like behavior.

If it's in Muslim religion to hate christians and to kill them, why have terrorism/suicide bombers/terrorist attacks only been going on for 20 years, when Islam and Christianity have been around for thousands of years?

I hope you guys can actually ANSWER this instead of jumping at my throat and telling me to shut the fuck up like you usually do.

This post has been edited by Too Exclusive: 08/08/05 5:46pm

[Frosty]

I'll tell you why there haven't been as many terrorist attacks before. The western world was not exerting a heavy influence there. Plain and simple. Bin Laden views the western non-Islamic world as infidels, and his backers stated: "The whole of the globe belongs to Allah, and the whole of His law has to be executed on the globe." The start of this is driving all Western influence from the Arab world so that they may consolidate their power and attempt to convert the world to Islam by force.

Bin Laden's Wahhabi sect believes that there should be no technological advancement unless it is for Allah, and that anyone who violates Allah's will should be killed. Hence, why he hates the western world's technological advances and presence in the Middle East. He feels that we are contaminating their homeland. His worst nightmare is to see Arab children growing up as he did: in Western schools, wearing Western clothes, learning about Western ideals such as freedom and democracy (especially freedom of religion). His conversion to Wahhabism caused him to turn on his own family, a Westernized Saudi family, and he was exiled. Of course, bin Laden is not the sole architect of these teachings; they have been around since the inception of Islam. However, he is the one whose wealth has enabled such groups to have the finances necessary to carry out attacks on such a large scale.