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um...i dont think that is adequate, powerclown.
it is certainly better than some of the stuff offered earlier, but still--on what grounds do you make a seperation between the domestic policies of particular states (and which ones are you talking about) and the foreign policy of the united states/europe. etc.?
where do you think this "religious intolerance" comes from? you provide no analysis of it, so i can only assume that you think it something that is intrinsic to islam. on what basis?
who are these "fundamentalists" socially/economically? you act as though there is no economic dimension to it, and that such economic factors as enter the thinking of these unnamed folk are refracted entirely through some reductive interpretation of the koran--which i think may well be yours more than that of any particular group.
one thing seems to me clear: whomever launches attacks like those which you are grouping together, none of these people accept the argument that you outline above that the problem lay with the particular nation-states in the middle east and their policies to the exclusion of the foreign powers that more often than not propr up these states. why do you think that is? do you imagine that islam somehow gets in the way of a rational interpretation of social, political, economic and religious questions? or are you arguing that these folk should have called you on the phone, so that you could have set them straight about the source of their troubles?
i am confused--the most confusing aspect of your post comes when you characterize attempts to understand how the general situation works that might foment such actions as a "cop out"--i have no idea what possible basis you could have for making that argument.
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