Big Pharaoh has probably pinned it down pretty well. The Egyptian blogger posts a poll that ran in local media. 48.9% of the respondents believe Israel is behind the resort bombings in Dahab. Only about 1/4 believe it was internal terrorists or al Qaeda.
The poll above was posted on Egypt's number one web portal Masrawy.com. The question asks people whom they think was behind the bombings in Dahab yesterday. 48.9% of the respondents so far think that the Israeli Mossad was behind the terrorist attack. 4.2% believe it was Al-Qaeda and 21% think it was the work of internal terrorist groups.
He's convinced that there are too many people afraid to look into the mirror and see all that is wrong in their society.
I have said countless times before that the root cause of the darkness we're living in is our unwillingness to look in the mirror and start criticizing ourselves and the cult of death we allowed to infect our society. We don't want to admit that many of our children are willing to kill themselves in order to massacre others. We don't want to admit that religion needs renewal and reform to suit the year 2006 and not 1006. We don't want to admit anything of that. Do you know why ladies and gentlemen we don't want to do that? We're just busy and in a constant state of denial. We're busy hating America. We're busy blaming Israel.
I think he's got it right, too. The Muslim world desperately needs more people like Big Pharaoh speaking out. We in the west need to stop trying to excuse the behavior and point out why they need to change.
UPDATE: And now two suicide bombers detonated themselves in an attempt on the Multinational Peacekeeper headquarters in Egypt.
Gaius, I agree with your sentiment completely. Please explain how invading a country with similar views, spending two billion dollars of borrowed money each week occupying the land, and installing democracy will solve this problem. I won’t even go into the thousands of Americans killed and tens of thousands wounded in this endeavor, and how that can be justified.
In other words, given the view expressed in this post, I can’t understand how you can support the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Jim
Jim,
Because I listen to people who don’t get their talking points nicely packaged.