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> When the Rabbits Get a Gun

15 September 2004, 19:50

Mr. Pitt, like so many European journalists, does a fine job of pinning the blame for worldwide terrorism on an imagined American imperialism that is aided by Israel, long the favorite scapegoat of anti-semites and others on the lunatic fringe.
Is Mr. Pitt familiar with the history of Islamic extremism and its intolerance of any other religions? Bin Laden was indoctrinated in this form of Islam and THAT is the root cause of his special brand of evil and that of other Islamist terrorists. Interestingly, he does not mention this pernicious form of religion. Nor does he mention the Madrases, or religious schools, that have inculcated young Arab children with messages of intolerance and violence against all non-Muslims, especially Jews.
It is Mr. Pitt, — who seems to think that terrorists act based on reasonable, rational principles — who is guilty of fairy tale thinking, not the rest of us.