Re: Islam and Terrorism

Steve Marshall wrote:

> (snip)
>
> Wake up and smell the coffee, Robert. Terrorism is not the recent
> arrival on the world scene that you indicate it is. The US has been
> the main instigator of terrorism across the world for decades. As Pat
> pointed out, it helped train what became Al Qaida. But only recently
> have retaliatory acts of terrorism been carried out against US
> citizens, and on US soil.
>

We've had terrorism here, very successful, too.  The Klan used terror
tactics to intimidate African Americans in the south for the past hundred
years.

90 years ago dozens of striking miners were killed by employees of the
mines in Ludlow Colorado.  50 some odd years ago Puerto Rican nationalists
bombed the US capitol. 20 years ago we were giving TOW missiles to the
Hezbollah for kidnapping Americans. 10 years ago terrorists blew up the
Murrah building in Oklahoma.  Americans being attacked and killed by
terrorists, is nothing new.  "Bowling for Columbine", is about fear, an
important element in terrorism.

- Pat