Quote Originally Posted by Ramil View Post
They can be violent acts but I doubt they are senseless. There are people who make politics and/or business this way. This is cruel, granted, this is inhuman, but somebody has paid quite an amount of money for this monstrosity to take place. People like that, despite what others may think of them, seldom do anything without expecting some political or economical dividends from that. Terrorism is a reality of modern society. This could have happenned at any time, at any place. I doubt there's a cure against this disease. It's a constant risk everyone should accept.
My point isn't that there's no rationale behind it (however f***ed up that rationale might be), it's that to anyone with a shred of humanity it's senseless.

You doubt that there's a cure? Well, there will never be a permanent cure for stupidity, but I think eventually (and it will take a long time, possibly many generations) there will be a cure for this kind of fanaticism. Even if there are still evil men who would wish to corrupt others into doing this kind of thing, if the fanaticism dies out there will be no gullible young people left for them to use.

What do you mean exactly by doubting that the people who make the decisions are Muslims? Are you saying they do not believe in their own minds that they are Muslims, or are you simply saying that they do not adhere to Islam as written in the Qur'an? I think you're wrong on both counts. Their political motive is to spread Islam and Islamic laws to the West. And if you're taking the "Islam is a religion of peace" line, it's all a matter of interpretation. The Qur'an contains many contradictions (as does the Bible). You can make these "holy books" say almost anything you want through the right lens of interpretation. There are many peaceful, respectable, level-headed Muslims, but who's to say their interpretation is any less valid than those crazy zealots hiding out in some cave? This is the problem - if you take an outdated, ambiguous "holy book" as your only moral guide, you're going to have problems.

Here's an example of what I mean:
religionofpeace.com
thereligionofpeace.com
Two websites - the only thing to separate them is the use of the definite article in their titles - however they take interpretations of Islam that couldn't be more different (the second one uses the title ironically). Both use plenty of quotations from the Qur'an and hadith to back up their claims. It all depends on which quotations one selects.