If you really want to stop the spread of radical Islam...the focal point is Saudi Arabia.....everything else is a diversion and misinformation. The radical form is the Wahabi style and its a mistake to paint the entire religion and Islam in general as the same. If their entire religion commands them to kill all non Muslims, dont you think there would be huge wars going on everywhere. Its only the Islamic nutballs that go down this path but our media, especially the Glenn Beck style of buffoon, keeps painting the entire religion with the same brush. Sunni, Shia and Wahhabi are different in their interpretations of Islam
An analogy would be to paint caucasian skinhead Christians as representative of the entire Christian population. We cant paint Christianity with a broad brush anymore than we can Islam. Are Branch Davidians the same as Lutherans. Do southern Baptists believe just like Methodists?
However, in order to keep the flames going and to feed the red meat crowd our media obliges, especially the right wing media which trumps up radical Islam as this huge dangerous enemy. An enemy which has no army, navy or airforce of any consequence. An enemy which has made its own culture backward in the 21st century due to its devotion to dogma rather than science or progress. With the fall of the Soviet Union, our military industrial complex needed a new foe. Bin Laden served that up on a platter and now our right wing politicians and media have distorted this threat beyond all proportionality.
To this day, not one person in our media that I can recall has reported on why 19 out of 21 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia and that OBL himself is Saudi. Anyone can connect the dots. We are sleeping with the Royal Family, which the majority of the population dont support. They view the Royals as spoiled elites who have plundered the country and who are propped up by the USA.
If you truly believe that Islam poses that much of a threat, then consider that statistically you have more chance of being hit by lightning than being killed by a terrorist. Thats a statistical fact.
The right wing media.....Helping to keep America scared.....radical Islam, WMD's that didnt exist, bogeyman everywhere and we spend more money on defense than the entire world combined.
