The motivations behind the London attacks
US President Bush and Tony Blair often state that Islamist terrorists "hate our freedom" or "hate our way of life".
I had never paid much credence to such views, until recently. It's a fact that fundamentalist Muslims have always looked down on the West, largely because they feel Western society is "decadent".
However it hasn't been substantiated, either by Bush or Blair, that a hatred of the Western lifestyle was the prime motivation of 9/11, the Madrid bombings or the London attacks. Personally I believe it's a combination of factors. Surely the foreign policies of certain Western countries must be a catalyst for terrorism.
If a hatred of Western freedoms is the sole factor, then surely (for example) France and Germany should have suffered attacks of the scale of London or 9/11. To date, they have not. I generally believe that the likelihood of the UK incurring terrorism would lessen if we had not aligned with the USA in invading Iraq.
US President Bush and Tony Blair often state that Islamist terrorists "hate our freedom" or "hate our way of life".
I had never paid much credence to such views, until recently. It's a fact that fundamentalist Muslims have always looked down on the West, largely because they feel Western society is "decadent".
However it hasn't been substantiated, either by Bush or Blair, that a hatred of the Western lifestyle was the prime motivation of 9/11, the Madrid bombings or the London attacks. Personally I believe it's a combination of factors. Surely the foreign policies of certain Western countries must be a catalyst for terrorism.
If a hatred of Western freedoms is the sole factor, then surely (for example) France and Germany should have suffered attacks of the scale of London or 9/11. To date, they have not. I generally believe that the likelihood of the UK incurring terrorism would lessen if we had not aligned with the USA in invading Iraq.
posted by Christopher at 7.8.05
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