To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (184923 ) 3/17/2004 12:00:17 AM From: tejek Respond to Ted, Since WW II, what do you think the body count has been........Muslims have killed maybe 4k Americans and Americans have killed what..........200k to 500k.......maybe even upwards of a million if the Vietnamese are Muslim. It's because of how powerful America is these days, not because of how many deaths you can remotely associate with anything American. Third, there is no American analogy to "jihad" as you put it. The decline of Muslim society and culture is an unfortunate side effect of a whole lot of Western influences, some good and some not so good. But nowhere will you find any sort of jihad-like doctrine in Western thinking. If anything, we'd rather leave them alone and they leave us alone, as long as they continue to sell us oil. And fourth, none of this relates to my original point, that the extremists have adopted an Islamic version of the "final solution." The causes that drove them this way are highly complex and can't be boiled down to the tired old "Blame America" argument. You have touched upon some very good reasons why the extremists act and believe this way, but in no way does that make them any less dangerous or more reasonable.
