What is it that makes fanatical British Muslims fanatical? I.e. in a country that isn't poverty stricken?

Answer 1

They are just ******* mental idiots.

Answer 2

Unfortunately fanatical British Muslims become fanatical because of the nature and the essence of Islam itself. It has nothing to do with Britain at all, other than the fact that they are, as a nation too permissive.

Islam is a religion that in essence, at its core, is what non-Muslims consider fanatical. You need only read the Koran, read the hadiths or find out what is commonly taught in Islamic schools around the World, including Britain, to understand this.

Islam is not a religion of peace in the sense that we in the West understand and use the term "peace".

Answer 3

Small question, but a huge answer.

There isn't one thing - maybe the constant marginalisation of this group by the government and media? Maybe the fact that the government didn't listen to the millions (of all cultures) who disagreed with the invasion of Iraq? The fact that they are trying to exist in an alien (and sometimes hostile) culture?

I don't think poverty has much to do with it; it is more a sense of powerlessness. And it's not just here in the UK, it's global; the less power people feel they have , the more they will try to challenge it.

Answer 4

There is no moral justification for terrorism regardless of the ethnic or religious background of the perpetrator or the victim, but the factual basis of terrorism has been either hidden or twisted in the public's perception of this policy problem, especially in congressional hearings on terrorism. The countries with the worst terrorist records in the world are not in the Middle East either. They are not even Muslim countries outside the Middle East. They are Columbia and Germany, havens for drug lords and neo-Nazis.

The negative association of Islam with terrorism exists, but no one has ever asked "Why?". Could it be that American society cannot overcome the Khomeini phobia, even though he is dead? The US Congress found it necessary to push $20 million towards covert operations in toppling the Iranian government even at the dissent of people in the CIA. The Arab countries, both friend and foe, are run by tyrants who kill more of their own people than those outside their countries. The presumption that these countries represent a threat to American interests or that any one of them can dominate the region or even rival the only remaining superpower is indeed generous. So the issue is not these countries' hegemony in their region or the world, but about who can dominate their people and exploit their resources.

Made a refugee in 1948 to create a homeland for European Jews, at 75 this Palestinian man from the Rafah refugee camp finds himself homeless once again, no thanks to Zionist ethnic cleansing policy and American indifference.

The perception in the Middle East is that US policy does not serve the peoples interests; it protects Israel and friendly Arab dictators even when they violate human rights, while it slaps sanctions on and takes military actions against countries whose dictators misbehave, resulting in suffering, starvation and even slaughter, all in the name of teaching the tyrants a lesson. The priorities in the Middle East for the US are not human rights and democracy, but rather oil and Israeli superiority. Consequently, anti-American sentiment increases. This mood of the general public is then characterized as "Islamic fundamentalism", even though the resentment is not rooted in religion. When it turns violent, it is termed "radical Islamic fundamentalism" or "Islamic terrorism." The various "terrorism experts" promote linkage to the Middle East before any other possibility every time terrorism is speculated. They exploit the human suffering of the victims, their families, and the fears of the American public.

Indeed, extremists of Muslim backgrounds are violating the norms of Islamic justice and should be held accountable for their criminal behavior, but we in America should not be held hostage to the politics of the Middle East or biased reporting.

An Israeli journalist, Yo'av Karny, reporting on the events in Chechnya made a striking observation about this development: "The West will be told--and will be inclined to believe--that the oppression of the Chechens is part and parcel of a cosmic struggle against 'Islamic extremism' that rages from Gaza to Algeria, from Tehran to Khartoum. Russians will seek Western sympathy. They should not be given it." The issue is not Chechnya, and it is not even about Islam and the West. Debates about religious wars and cultural clashes only distract us from the real issue: the powerful want to continue dominating the powerless, manipulating facts to influence public opinion, hence maintaining the status quo.







Mass murder happened from Israeli soldiers on Palestinians and Leabanese
Civilians when the Israeli troops invaded a village in southern Leabanon.

Answer 5

The promise of loads of virgins in 'heaven'

Answer 6

they need the Love of Jesus ....

Answer 7

you don't live up north mate!!!