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Originally posted by hermit22
He didn't just "come up" with that because the world reacted violently to 9/11...
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In the first fatwah the Palestinians are a distant concern next to banishing secular control of Saudi Arabia and imposing sharia law everywhere, and he explicitly invokes Ibn Taymiyyah and Al'iz Ibn Abdes-Salaam in calling for that. His main motivation seemed to be getting out of his Afghani exile and back into "the land of two holy places"...code for Saudi Arabia.
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...you sound like you believe that there was no terrorism before that tragedy, or that bin Laden did absolutely nothing before it.
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You mean like tryng to get blessed as the defender of the Saudis against Iraq? Of course, *that* was back in the early 1990's. He wasn't particularly gunning for the Yankees until they got in the way of his triumphant return to rescue his homeland (who had banished him) from those awful Iraqis....who suddenly became his bestest Muslim brothers only a few years later, after they lost the war he tried to sign up to fight against them.
He engaged in a fair amount of terrorism against US targets before 9/11, but only after the US spoiled his reentry to Saudi Arabia to fight what became Desert Storm <i>against</i> his "Iraqui brothers".
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And no matter what someone claims as their ideals - or what cover they use to sell those ideals - you have to look at the content of their message to see where they really stand. And of the three agenda items, only the first one has anything to do with religion. The rest are social.
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You'd better read the first fatwah again, then come back and tell me it's a social document whose central theme isn't the call for imposition of religion in the place of secular law.
I think "islamo-fascism" fits because it distinguishes this movement from other forms of fascism. Would you be happier with "Wahabist fascism"? Unfortunately few people in our culture know what Wahabism is.
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Think about it this way: how often did the media call Timothy McVeigh a Christian terrorist? How about Bray or Hill (first advocated and the second killed abortion doctors)?
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I've got no problem with identifying as a "Fundamentalist Christian terrorist" someone who assasinates doctors and then cites the Bible as justification.
As for McVeigh, he never articulated what he was trying to do clearly enough for me to try to label it. What the media does I have no control over.