Why don't Westerners terrorize the peoples of the Middle East?

Question

Though this may seem irrelevant at first, I believe it is important to ask why we haven't seen any American or European terrorists attacking holy sites and innocent people in the Middle East. Why has this not happened?

Answer 1

we have much stronger law enforcement than them. I'm sure someone has thought about it but they have probably been caught. believe it or not, the public do not hear about all acts of terrorism, i work in various positions within the private security industry where i have several times been either warned of threat by local police that has sometimes been so specific with descriptions of persons or cars or other details to look out for as they are planning a terrorist activity in the local area or sometimes at the place i am working but no one outside of my team has been told of this or sometimes told for example conduct full body searches at this time for counter terrorism which clearly means someone is planning something. don't assume you know of all terrorism plots. also according to most sources poverty and terrorism are linked i don't actually believe that mind seeing as I've never heard of an African terrorist and there's lots of poverty in Africa

Answer 2

Read this and pass it on:

Political Correctness is the Incubator of Islamism
by Amil Imani

14 Feb, 2007

Time and again we are told by the politically correct “experts” not to worry about Islam posing a threat to our way of life. We are repeatedly lectured that only a very small minority of Muslims are troublemakers who are giving the peaceful masses of Muslims a bad name. We are also informed that the terrorists, who happened to be Muslims, are the disaffected and the young. And not to worry, since as the fire of youth turns to ashes of old age the rebellious will mellow, as they always have.
With heavy assurances like this, coming from so many know-it-all authoritative figures, we can sleep soundly without the aid of sleeping pills. After all, people reason that these pundits are “experts” whose job is to know and tell it like it is. Those who voice contrary views must be a bunch of racist, alarmist hate mongers. Who is right?

Wouldn’t be more prudent to let the facts settle the matter, rather than blindly accepting either position? Of course it would, except for one huge problem. In the face of threats, people tend to go to the mind’s medicine cabinet and take a few denial and rationalization pills, in the same way that it is the aspirin bottle they turn to when a headache strikes. Why not? We are the Easy Species. We love effortless, quick and simple solutions. And that’s not invariably bad. It has given us all kinds of labor and time saving devices.

Yet, the Islam problem is very real and deadly. Neither the pronouncements of the experts, nor the tranquilizing pills of the mind can make it go away. It is here and it shows every sign of imposing itself on us.

Europe is already badly infected with Islamism. It is the coal-miners’ canary. It is telling us that the next stop is America. We must act and act now. We must not sacrifice our cherished way of life and the lives of our children at the altar of political correctness: the incubator of Islamofascism.

Answer 3

It has happened for centuries. First with the Crusades in the 11th century and more recently with the bombing of Iraqi villages by the British in the 1920s, the support given to jewish terrorists in the 1940s, the attack on Egypt in 1956, the shelling of Lebanon by the Americans in the 1980s . You could just go on for ever.

Answer 4

Because (a) that would bring us down to the barbaric level of the Islamic terrorists and (b) terorrism and atrocities would escalate on all sides and lead to World War III.

Some would argue that Westerners are already terrorising the peoples of the Middle East in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Answer 5

Because we don't like violence, its the root of evil.But these people who've done the terror thinks they go to heaven, what a stupid idea.How could you go there when you are evil, you must be barbecued in the fire punishment is approapriate for them.This civilized society needs to progress as everything in the world does.During the stone age where everyhting is primitive that's the best time to do all the fighting for human survival.But this 21st century we should go with the tide of advancement & pursuing the dreams & goal for the betterment of all.But I don't know why they are so jealous of the western world.

Answer 6

Where in the world have you been? the western powers have meddled, oppressed and overthrew democratic governments, pumped massive amounts of weapons into the middle east for the last 100 years or so.

Answer 7

Erm - we are. Innocent people are being attacked every day in Iraq and Afghanistan. And if you don't think the US and UK's indiscrimate use of bombing, the use of depleted uranium warheads, the use of white phosphorous, cluster bombs, torture and sweeps through towns firing at anyone of fighting age is terrorism, perhaps you might like to be on the end of some of that and reconsider.

Answer 8

Because the west has laws that seperate church from state, thereby limiting the amount of funds that flows to terrorism. However, the west has had its share of terrorists, an example would be the so called freedom fighter, Timothy McVeigh.

Answer 9

On the other hand we dont see many middle eastern countries physically invading western countries. I'm sure if the middle eastern terrorists had the hardware that the UK and US armies have at their disposal then they would use it. The thing is they don't so they use subversive tactics.

Answer 10

"Terrorism" is the poor mans war--we like the expensive kind because it helps our friends at Haliburtan.