Plus, it doesn't matter if BinLadin is dead or not. He's no longer a "player".
We're in the beginning of yet another world wide attempt for Muslims to forcibly institute their religion as the one and only "world" religion. BinLadin played his role, but now there are thousands upon thousands of others who have taken over.
http://www.startribune.com/722/story/684461.html
Historically, the events of today were bound to happen because they have happened before throughout history. Each time, opposition has stopped it, but only until a few generations later when Muslims again believe that they have the power to "finally" dominate the planet.
The beginnings go way back:
Muslim incursions into previously Christian lands. A "Crusade" had been underway on the Iberian peninsula since 711 when Muslim invaders conquered most of the region. Better known as the Reconquista, it lasted until the tiny kingdom of Grenada was reconquered in 1492.
In the East, Muslim attacks on land controlled by the Byzantine Empire had been going on for a long time.
Then, directly from the mouths of "babes":
"you and the West are doomed as you can see from the defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and elsewhere. ... We will break up the cross, spill the liquor and ... the only thing acceptable is a conversion [to Islam] or the sword."
From the same source here at:
http://atheism.about.com/od/crusades/a/crusades_3.htm
We are again in a world war that isn't going to stop no matter which party controls the political arena, and it wasn't "caused" by our entry into Iraq, and any and all other countries around the world are targets.
It will only stop when the non-Muslim world decides that enough is enough and treat this as seriously as it is. As of today, George Bush is about the only leader of a major country that IS treating this as seriously as IT REALLY IS.
For that, he is constantly criticised by the Left of America which has absolutely nothing to bring to the table other than appeasement.
Appeasement does not work with people who prefer to die rather than to compromise their own twistedly evil idea of "religion".
Some suggest that it's all "Bush's fault", but that simply isn't true because Muslim attacks have been going on for quite a while, not the least notable being the 1993 attack on the WTC (That was one year BEFORE he even became governor of Texas, and in 1993, his main job was managing a baseball team... hardly something to do with starting terrorism).
I would personally argue that the first significant terrorist attack of modern times that is connected in a linear way to today's escalation of terrorism is the attack on the Jewish Olympic team in 1972.
Many in the West are too full of themselves when they think that "we" are the cause of terrorism. The cause of terrorism is Extremist Muslims With a Mission, and the West has nothing to do with that.
Carter
