Is American Occupation in Iraq Fueling the NEXT GENERATION OF JIHADISTS?

Question

I received another edition of Newsweek Magazine not so long ago. The cover photo showed a young boy carrying a frightening looking peice of firearm.


NEWSWEEK COVER: The Next Jihadists-
War and Sectarian Hatred Are Creating a Generation of Iraqi Children Who Are Traumatized, Undereducated -- and Vulnerable to Appeal of Militia and Insurgent Groups, Reports Newsweek Iraqi Sociologist: 'These Children Will Come to Believe in the Principles of Force And Violence ... There's No Question that Society As a Whole Is Going to Feel the Effects in the Future'

Answer 1

I personally feel what this war has done, beyond disrupt a country we have no business being in, is create a place for anyone with a grudge against the US to come and fight us. So in many ways I would agree with that article.

I've always felt if another country did what we did it would be called a Coup, not a liberation. Absolutely Saddam needed to go, but I don't feel this was the way or the place. And our poor brave troops are fighting another country's civil war to boot.

Answer 2

Does that mean if the U.S. left Iraq, there would be no more jihadists and radical Muslims?

Of course not.

We were attacked by jihadists before we liberated Iraq. This war didn't start with 9/11, it started with 11/4/79, when radical Muslims invaded United States soverign territory in Iran.

Answer 3

NO.

Think about your question for a nanosecond. Do you think these are regular workaday guys with families of three going about their business as cobblers or bakers or deliverymen, never having a thought about harming anyone, and then all of a sudden because they saw something on CNN about US foreign policy, they just DECIDED to strap a bomb to themselves and walk into a daycare????

I'm not saying US foreign policy is beyond question - of course not. I'm not saying the war is right or the way we're prosecuting it is right - but it's NOT why people are blowing themselves up. They're doing that because five times a day they go to the mosques, where the mullah says the same things about us - and every other infidel and non-Sharia country - that Goebbels said about the Jews.

If it were about the war in Iraq, why isn't the violence limited to the US and Iraq? How many troops did BALI send to Iraq?

These people are murdering and dismembering because they believe it is God's command for them to do so. The next question is who is telling them that and the next question is what's the basis for this idea. The answers are: the mullahs and the Koran and Hadiths.

That's right. Muhammad killed thousands of people to spread his religion and his Koran commands his followers to do the same.

Radical Muslim leaders take this as the right example and they take the Koran literally.

Moderate Muslim leaders need to stand up and refute this - to say that Muhammad's example is not appropriate for 2007 and that the Koran should be reinterpreted figuratively to mean fight the battle in your soul against temptation.

Some of them do this.

Not enough of them.

In part it's because they're afraid of the radicals.

I'll give you this - because of the war in Iraq, our soldiers are put in the same location as these radical Islamists and are forced to follow a different set of rules. So, while more of our soldiers are getting killed by the terrorists because Bush put us in Iraq, he didn't create the terrorists.

You're forgetting, the WTC was bombed in 1993 - what did Clinton do to earn the ire of the terrorists? They weren't upset about his foreign policy - he didn't HAVE a foreign policy.

Answer 4

This is so typical by you Americans, you always think that if you do something, you expect everyone to do what you want in 2 minutes. Do you know what Al-Mujahidin means? Well it means someone who will sacrifice their lives for what they believe in. And muslims belive in Our God. But I guess you wouldn't know that "oh I don't want to go to church, I wanna watch the football game. Look at yourselves before you judge others

Answer 5

No, if the media was really interested they could show the positive side of the American presence in Iraq. There have always been jihadists and there will always be jihadists. I doubt our presence has fueled jihadists.

Answer 6

Without a doubt. But Bush doesn't care because he'll be long gone from US Govt. by the time these new terrorists he helped create in Iraq attack the US again.

Answer 7

Yes the best recruitment centre in the world for future terrorists is Iraq at the moment.

Answer 8

Liberals want people to believe this. It is a load of crap. This is the same attitude that existed before WW2.

Ignoring the problem does not make it go away.

Answer 9

No, jihadists that have kids (or kidnap them) are fueling the next generation of jihadists. America is trying to wipe them out.

Answer 10

If we had nothing to do with Iraq there still would have been a next generation of terrorist. Please quit reading the same old hate America and blame America for everything liberal rags like Newsweek.