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Ironically one of the main rallying cries of the extremists is that US 
troops are in Saudi. Never mind that the 'infidels' are protecting the 
holy sites from another Arab country. However, Bin Laden's wish to 
liberate the holy lands is exactly and precisely the mission of the 
crusaders. They wanted to liberate their holy lands. The only problem was 
that we had some of the same holy lands, and yet both peoples were too 
stupid to realize the reason for this is because we actually worship the 
same god (if we worship at all).

>> I read the above 
>> comment, and thought to myself  "Crusades". Was the fact that 
>> thousands of Muslims were killed during the Crusades, 
>> because of Christians trying to promote their 'superior religion'

--- In logic-ot@y..., GAmoore@a... wrote:
> Ironically one of the main rallying cries of the extremists is that 
US 
> troops are in Saudi. Never mind that the 'infidels' are protecting 
the 
> holy sites from another Arab country. However, Bin Laden's 
wish to 
> liberate the holy lands is exactly and precisely the mission of 
the 
> crusaders. They wanted to liberate their holy lands. The only 
problem was 
> that we had some of the same holy lands, and yet both 
peoples were too 
> stupid to realize the reason for this is because we actually 
worship the 
> same god (if we worship at all).
> 
Bin Laden's wish is to have Taliban-style governments installed 
in the two most important countries in the Muslim world: Saudi 
Arabia (the one with the money), and Pakistan (the one with the 
bomb).His motives are far from being holy in nature. What I was 
pointing out was the common arguement that Some Muslims 
use to justify their hatred of us.

If it was the Us governments role to protect the Saudis from the 
bin Laden of the world, then it was the job of the Saudis to make 
that clear to the rest of the Muslim world. and BTW, we've been 
training other countries armies for decades, so why can't we 
train the Saudis to defend themselves? That seems more 
feasible than having US troops where they are clearly not 
wanted, and it makes the US look less like the errand boys of the 
world.

just my 2 cents. Sorry if I've digressed too far.  :-)

Charles