In your opinion, what is the primary reason for 9/11 attack?

Question

Is it jealousy of US democracy, wealth, freedom as Bush claimed?

To spread Islamic religion? (Is that their way to spread their religion? By Kamikaze's or terrorisms?)

Is it due to US years of continuous support on Israelis' regime occupation in the Middle East? (which unbearable depressions led ones, or the victims and the witnesses commit suicidal attack ?

All answers are appreciatiated, please tell me where you are from.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Primary reasons

Sorry, but they interconnect.....

Decades of pro-Israeli, anti-Arab American foreign policy.

The UN has repeatedly ordered Israel out of The West Bank, for 40 years, 70 + UN resolutions condemning Israel but America covers for Israel and international law is simply ignored.

The United States corporate foreign policy has treated Muslims and Arabs as a permanent underclass..... our soldiers on their holy lands, treating their oil as our resource, overthrowing Middle Eastern democratically elected governments and replacing them with puppet dictators that our corporations can control (The Shah of Iran, among many)

"Our freedoms"....more like our denying them their freedoms

But the truth is a tough sale in an America of multi-billion $dollar corporate spin and a mislead, misinformed citizenry

Answer 2

The big one: US foriegn policy in the Middle East. We've done a lot of not-so-nice things there in order to maintain a constant oil flow. This includes propping up the Saudi family and by doing so trampling human rights. Installing Saddam Hussein as a dictator and having him fight a proxy war for us with Iran. Installing a dictator in Iran (in the process, overthrowing a democracy).

This has made a lot of people pretty pissed at us.

You'll see some post about "All infidels must be killed, it says so in the Koran". However, before one points a finger one should see where his hand is. Straight from the bible:

"Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed." (Exodus 22:19)

"They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman." (2 Chronicles 15:12-13)

That's just two passages that advocate killing "infidels".

The twisting of the Islamic religion is mainly for brainwashing (like most religions). It's a good way to get recruits and keep people in line.

The real issue is most of the Middle East is third world. Lots of poor, angry, uneducated people easily swayed as they've seen what we've done in the past.

Terrorism is a symptom, not the problem. We should stop "treating" the symptom and start fixing the problems.

~X~

Answer 3

I think that the primary reason, was that it was one of the steps in the plan for the start of what they call the new world order.

"It is a big idea: a new world order... only the United States has both the moral standing and means to back it up."Former President George Bush, State of Union address, Jan. 29, 1991

There are a lot of pieces to this NWO puzzle and everything that happens, fits into it in one way or another!

Why do you want to know where people are from? Are you going to come and take us to the concentration camps? *sm*

Answer 4

It would be simple if there was a single 'primary reason' for this particular attack, but it isn't that simple. History is a matrix of competing forces and personalities. I suspect you'd have to go all the way back to 1199 and the First Crusade. Europeans did invade the middle east and they did destroy and kill a lot of people. You might think that people would forget about something that happened so long ago, but the middle east has a totally different culture. Current islamic 'leaders' have managed to tap into that institutional memory. Culturally the middle east mindset, predating even Islam, has no word, as western culture defines it, for 'forgiveness' or 'compromise'. Add to that the perceived injustices of colonialism, poverty blamed on the west and of course 'Israel' gives the 'crazies' of the middle east as much ammunition as they need to justify jihad. If you can make people believe absurdies, you can convince them to commit atrocities!

Answer 5

This is the first time I have heard this particular question -

Thats interesting in itself

It seems to be a pretty poor stradegy - what did the enemy acomplish ?

Ok 3,000 dead - but after that what exactly did that do ?

Was it supposed to bring America to it's knee's ? Hardly even if it had bee 5 x that it wouldn't have put a dent in America

So your right to ask - Why


I will stop here but I am really interested in the answers

Answer 6

The Saudi's dual edged sword. We helped them in the Gulf War, in turn extremists united behind the common cause of ousting Americans from Holy Lands. In the 90's these extremists were targeted which fanned the flames of jihad. Had we stayed out of Saudi and based elsewhere the situation may not be as bad as it is now.

Answer 7

The primary reason, according to those who did the attacks, was in protest of US military bases in Saudi Arabia, established there by Bush Sr. during the Gulf war, and seen as propping up the Saudi princes, who take all the oil money for themselves. It was political, not religious in its nature, but I believe the greater purpose was to provoke a clumsy and religiously bigoted response, in order to bring many more people to their side, who believed their religion was under attack. I can't understand how people can not know this... If Osama bin Laden was behind it (and I believe he was) that's all he's been saying over and over since then.

Answer 8

Clearly it was to give Bush and his pals an excuse to go to war in Iraq to steal their oil and conquer their people.

Probably, it was a combination of all the things you mention. There is enough people in the Middle East that really don't like our presence there. Give them a leader (Osama bin Laden) and a cause (our unwanted presence) and an excuse (the religion of Islam) and you have the foundation of a group that could be dangerous.

Answer 9

There is a sliver of truth in all your explanations. I think we were caught in th crossfire of a family feud. The Bush family and bin Laden family are close friends. They both have oil interests. When Papa Bush stationed US troops in Saudi Arabia it caused a riff in the binLaden family. Osama moved to Afghanistan and began plotting revenge. Bush Jr. didn't pay attention to the intelligence that an attack was imminent.

Answer 10

I myself do not know, but I feel it was a one-shot act of revenge. A person told me the other day that Bin Ladn was very upset with the fact that females were allowed to land on muslim soil during the first Gulf war.