@camlok,
Quote:What planet have you been on? The blame was heaped right away on OBL and his Muslim "hijackers", and Afghanistan. Then onto Iraq,
They specifically targeted Al Qeida. They specifically steered away from Islam. You know this. For Afghanistan - Invading Afghanistan is a common sense approach of a govt that actually believes the Al Qeida brought down the twin towers. Unnecessary, stupid, but understandable. In order for you to answer the 'what motivation' you need a great deal more:
- why did the people who allegedly want to commit mass murder so their country can invade Afghanistan (ie. what's in it for them, what drove them to do it)
- Why do the alledged conspirators (who are people) want to blame Muslims? There is little history of this in Western countries...some tension yes, but no mass blame.
- what does it actually achieve for them? Invasion is not an end in itself. What do the people who committed mass murder of their own citizens get out of it?
These questions may not make sense to people who come from countries where mass murder is commonly used against the population by other members of the population for political or religious reasons...they very much make sense in countries where that has never, or almost never been the case.
It certainly reinforces the likelihood you come from a Middle Eastern country - your inability to comprehend this.
The ongoing sense of 'criticism of any part of Islam = criticism of all muslims', something many who believe in Umma, experience, means you are likely Muslim. Again, nothing wrong with that - it makes your objections understandable. It doesn't excuse the lack of critical thinking, but it would make more sense as to why you abandon critical thinking - to protect your beliefs.
Prior to 9-11"To blame Muslims' is not a motivation that would fly, with just about anyone bar those with mental health issues (who then wouldn't have the rational ability to carry it out without drawing attention to themselves), mental impairment (who then wouldn't have the capacity to carry it out), or extreme radicalisation (and for this last, even then, they would have to go beyond abandoning logic, into the realm of delusion). This last would still require some 'rationale' that they bought into, en masse. There isn't a rationale that makes sense to the Western mind.
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For the rest, all I see is someone who can't answer how his dearly held conspiracy theory would be carried out, the practical execution of a plan, so that it would bring down the twin towers.
I mentioned it is the basis on which we disagree...and all you can come up with is 'I can't provide explanation of the nuts and bolts of how it would have been carried out, but it must be'?