China at war with the Islamist
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What is interesting about this analysis is the suggestion that al Qaeda is attacking the Chinese in Pakistan because the Chinese Muslims in China. I suppose that is possible , but I would not over look old fashioned ethnic and religious bigotry as a motivating factor. It seems to be the root cause of most of their war effort.
Westhawk also comments on China's war with the Islamist.
The Great Satan (Al-Shaytan Al-Akbar) now has company. No not just the Jews. Nor even the godless Russians. Nor the Indians. Make way for the Chinese. The News reports that the "attack on Chinese nationals in Balochistan is said to be the first reaction to Chinese government’s steps to curb Muslim insurgency in its own territory." This follows on recent attacks by Islamic radicals on Chinese in Islamabad. What's it all about? The Online Times describes the ongoing war between China and Islam on its Western boundaries.From bin Laden's on mouth comes the answer. He thought they had already defeated the Russians after driving them out of Afghanistan and he thought the US would be the easier target. He was in fact counting on the kind of response the Democrats are now clamoring for. He had seen their lawfare approach to terrorism in the first World Trade Center bombing and the African embassy bombing and expected the US to send lawyers instead of the troops to Afghanistan to get him. KSM famously asked for a lawyer before he was "persuaded" to reveal on going operational plots. The fact is al Qaeda grossly under estimated the US response to the 9-11 attacks.
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One of the most fascinating questions -- one worthy of a book -- must be why Osama Bin Laden chose to order his suicide airplanes into Manhattan rather than say, Beijing or Moscow. Both these nations have been campaigning against Muslims for centuries. And the answer, I suspect, lies in the "excited commands and shouts of glee form the Chinese on the soundtrack". Or the veritable rain of shells that fell on Grozny in the recent past or the vicious campaign that still rages through Chechnya today. Maybe Bin Laden attacked America because he knew how it would fight. In a mode where even prisoners in Guantanamo Bay could insist upon their Korans being handled with white gloves, while a large section of America's own media would condemn this treatment as too harsh.
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What is interesting about this analysis is the suggestion that al Qaeda is attacking the Chinese in Pakistan because the Chinese Muslims in China. I suppose that is possible , but I would not over look old fashioned ethnic and religious bigotry as a motivating factor. It seems to be the root cause of most of their war effort.
Westhawk also comments on China's war with the Islamist.
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