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Root Causes of Anti-Western Islamic Terrorism (5)*

Straight from the Jerusalem Cloakroom #229

Yoram Ettinger, "Second Thought"

November 12, 2009



1. Contrary to the "Palestine Firsters" school of thought, Islamic
terrorism is raging the Middle East and the entire globe, irrespective of
the Arab-Israeli conflict, independent of the Palestinian issue and
regardless of US-Israel friendship, Israel's policies or Israel's existence.
The 1,400 year old Islamic terrorism is not driven by despair, but by local,
regional and global religious, political and territorial ambitions,
terrorizing Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Jews.



2. Fact: 100 persons were murdered in an October 28, 2009 bombing in
Peshawar, Pakistan, the third largest Muslim-majority country in the world.




3. Fact: According to the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict
Management, 2,809 Pakistanis were murdered by Islamic terrorists in 2008,
2,120 in 2007, 933 in 2006, 511 in 2005, 619 in 2004 and 164 in 2003.



4. Fact: According to the Institute for Conflict Management, 24,879
Indians were murdered (mostly) by Islamic terrorists during 1994-2005, 1,492
in 2006, 1,413 in 2007 and 1,391 in 2008.



5. Fact: According to France's domestic intelligence service (DST):
Jihadists from Afghanistan, Algeria, and Pakistan returned to (generally
pro-Palestinian) France, trained and indoctrinated in handling arms and
explosives. They constitute a grave threat for France (NYT, April 8, 2008).

6. Fact: (generally pro-Palestinian) Britain has become a focus of Islamic
terrorism. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who opposed the war in Iraq and
supports Palestinian demands, was inaugurated in June 2007 and was greeted
by three (Muslim terrorists-engineered) car bombs in July 2007. According to
MI5 British Security Service (The Guardian, August 20, 2008), "the most
pressing current threat is from Islamist extremist groups who justify the
use of violence 'in defense of Islam'... They are mostly British nationals,
not illegal immigrants and, far from being Islamist fundamentalists, most
are religious novices. Nor are they 'mad and bad."

7. Fact: Sunni Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorize Shiite regimes, while
Iran-supported Shiites terrorize Sunni regimes in the Gulf region, as well
as in Egypt and Jordan, in order to facilitate Iranian domination of the
Gulf.



8. Fact: Yemen has become a center of Sunni and Shiite terrorism,
logistically and operationally, agitating Yemen and the entire region.



Is it realistic to assume that rogue Muslim regimes, which have employed
terrorism since the 7th century, in order to settle their domestic and
inter-Muslim conflicts, would not employ terrorism in order to settle their
conflicts with non-Muslims, irrespective of the Palestinian issue, Israel's
policies and Israel's existence?!



*For further data on the root causes of anti-Western Islamic terrorism
please see:

Part 4:
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=220981

Part 3:
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=183818

Part 2:
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=179511

Part 1:
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=178303