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Interview Transcript
Question: Why do the terrorists hate us?
Mitt Romney: I think that . . . that those that have led the movement of radical jihad from their beginnings many, many years ago in Egypt prior to the killing and assassination of Anwar Sadat . . . It is a religious belief held very deeply in their hearts that for a religious leader – a caliphate or an imam – to take over the world, that they must bring down all democracies – all governments of moderation and modernity. And it began with Islamic governments that they tried to bring down and continue to try and bring down as well as all western nations. It is a religious fervor associated with turning the clock back to the 7th or 8th century and going to a time when women had no rights, and when . . . when people were forced to join a faith at the point of a sword. That’s where they want to go. They . . . they dislike us so much because we are, if you will, the defender of liberty around the world. We have been time and again willing to stand up and say no to the barbaric acts of these radical Islamists. And they want to see us brought down, and their intent is to cause the collapse of our country, and the collapse of the west, and the collapse of all moderate governments and civilizations.
Recorded on: 11/26/07
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shawn disney on February 7, 2009, 10:03 PM
Mr. Romney’s ideas about Islamic fanaticism are an interesting mirror image of his own, but that is a poor explanation of why we are all in this pickle. The real answer is, that “terrorism” is an almost powerless,but rational answer to the West’s last 100 years of abuse of the Arab world, but it doesn’t reflect ordinary Arab, and Moslem, feelings, which are in no way more fanatic than, let’s say, the average born-again Christian. It really started with the gigantic outrage of 1920, where the Arabs, our allies in the War for Democracy, got swindled out of a “country” of their own, while our treatment of some of our recent enemies , was quite benign, as far as territorial demands go. (Czecholslovakia, Poland, etc.) It is not likely that Arabs will forget or forgive that as soon as the Turks were driven out, the Arabs were colonized all over again. Indeed, even the Turks were not trashed so much; they were (unfortunately) allowed to colonize the Kurds. There was no Islamic Terrorist Menace before WW1, and the development of it parallels that of the Wests’ puppet Arab States, such as Saudi Arabia, which could not survive on its own. disigny
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