Why do liberals ignore the threat to the West from Radical Islamism?

Question

I mean, besides the 9/11 attacks there were the bombings of our embassies in Africa, the bombings in the UK and Spain, and hundreds of other successful and unsuccessful Islamic terrorist attacks around the world. Can anyone explain their behavior?

The Terrorism Awareness Project - http://www.terrorismawareness.org/

The liberal media have been ignoring terrorist incidents in this country. Like the one in Dearborn, MI. Here are two sites you can go to for more information about that threat from radical Islam.
Committee on the Present Danger - http://www.fightingterror.org/
Northeast Intelligence Network - http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/

Answer 1

They are not ignoring it. They have defined it as a bumper sticker slogan.

Hillary is already positioning herself to engage in a 'terror' war by taking a page out of her husband's book and prosecuting it from 35,000 feet eg: Iraq and the Balkans without depoying ground troops until the dust settles. She will 'identify' a terror stronghold and bomb it. The liberals will forgive her for all the collateral civilian 'damage' just like they did during 'wag-the-dog'.
There will be no repeat of Somalia. Too scary and nasty. Besides, after Hillary cuts the military there may not be any troops and we'll have to rely on the UN. God help us.
Of course there will be no terrorists at the spot bombed because of the security leaks everywhere and all the diplomatic 'talks' with our enemies before the launch.
You won't get any information about that though.
Then you will have to sit through all the postulations about: "See,the Clintons are tough on terror too"

Lord, give me strength.

Answer 2

Leftist liberals like Kucinich, Boxer, "San Francisco values" Pelosi, "little Eichmann" Durbin, Feingold, etc. have many self-serving reasons for ignoring the very real and dangerous threats from radical Islamism.

Their ideological preference for a more socialistic political system for the USSA is their prime motivation, closely followed by a dislike of the more conservative and Christian nuances of the Bush administration, you know the "values" factor that helped get George W. elected twice.

These "liberals" want to have overbearing power in a very large, centralized, hegemonic, bureaucratic government that requires most of your income to control and dictate what and how we do all things in our lives.

This ideological preference is marginally anarchistic of the so called traditional American values and political institutions, so much so that the anti-Americanism of radical Islamism is being used as ally for their objectives.

Is this too far fetched for some yahoo-ers? Just try remembering or searching for Dick Durbin's infamous little eichmanns comparison, or some of our elected leftists support for bona fide terrorist organizations.

Answer 3

Um, yes? And in simple terms too. Western society has pitted Islamic countries against each other for decades, perhaps centuries. We've provided them with arms, and have them fight many of our battles for us. Then, after the war is over and they've exhausted all their resources, we place our own fortresses in their countries and take control of certain regions. We also do not provide them with money or food to keep their people from starvation after those conflicts. People get angry when you do these kinds of things to them.
Liberals don't ignore the threat of radical Islam. We realize that it isn't religious reasons that dictate why people attack us. Otherwise, we would've been hit long before 9/11, right? What would be the point of waiting if you just want to convert and kill people for your religion?

Answer 4

oh, we're aware

the problem is that Bush defeated the progress made in the War on Terror by invading Iraq. Now there's a whole new battlefield we have to struggle on to restore order to a country and stop new terrorists from being trained

instead, our government has decided to train Sunni insurgents if they promise to fight Al Qaeda and Shi'ite extremists, and the Shi'ite extremists are hand-in-hand with the Iraqi government. Remember them shouting "Muqtada!" when they hanged Saddam? Muqtada is head of the Al-Sadr Army which kills American soldiers, but he is one of the most influential politicians in Iraq, and we let some of these monsters be in hopes they won't turn on us like Al Qaeda did.

Answer 5

No one denies the threat. It's just hard not to notice that American Republicans just can't figure out that their strategy to deal with it is tanking seriously and making it worse.

You want to stop the radical Islamics, but you won't take any action against their main funders and supporters, the Saudi's, for some really ugly political reasons involving the corruption or your Bush administration.

Answer 6

But wait ! We were all told the Iraq war is the answer in stopping terrorism period ?! So now what ? Why did Bush go into Iraq if terrorism is around the world ?

Last time I checked Bush was a con.

Answer 7

More Americans have died in car accidents, and heart disease is still the number one killer. I'm not telling you that terrorism isn't a threat, I'm just trying to add some perspective. Terrorism isn't the greatest danger we face.

Then there's the fact that a Terrorist's solitary goal is to frighten us, so giving into fear by overexaggerating their numbers and abilities is counter-productive.

Answer 8

Rumors and lies from right wing extremists are the typical behaviour of 3rd graders. Do you have any credible sources to back up these claims?

Try this fact on for size.
The Bush administration ignored hard evidence from its top intelligence officials between April and September of 2001 about an impending attack by al-Qaeda on US soil.

Answer 9

Simply put, because until a radical Muslim comes over and blows up their (liberals) home the liberal believes the Muslim's can be ignored.

How does one negotiate with a religion that demands that the world either convert to becoming a Muslim or die?

Answer 10

Whose ignoring it? I can't think of any politician who thinks
radical Islam is a good thing for America or not some threat to us. When has America not had it's "bad guy". It's just that this time they came to us.........