Miriam's Dreamwidth blog

I should also remind that the ones who bombed London, Bali, and flew planes into the World Trade Center were not victims of western oppression. They were well-educated, middle class, religious people. That isn't to lessen the part that broken, war-crippled people play in being some of the rationale for such rotten actions, but I kind of wonder if the war-torn regions which have been so mishandled by the west (and the middle-east people themselves), if they were instead left to their own devices, would they still be awfully broken? Would crazy jihadists still want our blood? I guess we'll never know. But from my reading of the koran, yes, they would still want us dead. It is right there in their book. Admittedly the christian bible promotes mass murder in a similar way, but most christians never realise this because they never read the bible. The difference with islam is that the koran is meant to be recited, not read. There is a much greater chance that muslims know what is in their koran.