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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] I suppose the question then becomes, is the Al-Qaeda movement merely an extension or distillation of anti-US sentiment that has coalesced over the past couple of decades? Or, is it an extremist movement that has been able to flourish and grow to prominence, with that same specific anti-US feeling as a growth medium? Note I'm not saying "anti-US" because I hold the US to blame; rather that the rhetoric (and that's all it usually was) of the time was often exclusively anti-American, rather than anti-Western-nations in general. This seems to have stemmed from US support for Israel, US support for the Shah of Iran (and opposition to the Iranian Revolution), the presence of US Marines in Beirut (and maybe even Somalia). . . and a thousand other slights real or imagined: many of which other Western nations could be blamed for, but usually weren't. Britain, for example, seems to have escaped the backlash from centuries of Imperial oppression by becoming a welcoming place for Islamic immigrants. But all this has changed. Now we're being told by these nutters that it's us or them. It's a strange feeling, akin to having war declared against us by members of MENSA, or vegetarians - in other words, any one segment of our multicultural society, that we previously didn't have a problem with. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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