Reply #82: I think we ARE trying to address the issues. The issues are [View All]

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that a suicide bomb team, which ALL evidence points to as having been AQ people from Iraq, blew up 3 hotels in Jordan.

Obviously they are trying to destabilize the Jordanian government, which is moderate, has ties to the West, Western businesses such as the hotels which were attacked, a peace agreement with Israel, has been alone in the entire Middle East in granting open and free immigration to Palestinians. People travel there for conferences and as tourists. This includes Israelis. That fact alone has caused hotels in Egypt to be attacked, with many Israelis killed along with innocent Arabs and of course, others. Female terrorists have also operated in Egypt; this isn't, sadly, all that unusual.

On this website - and others, alas, attempts are being made to blame everybody except the bombers. These are conspiracy theories which in many cases target either the US or the Israelis. This is both mind-boggling and offensive. It helps to foment bigotry and it is the exact opposite of addressing the issues. It is actually addressing the dark parts of the human spirit: fear of the unknown, fear of the other. Scapegoating, especially when it involves the usual suspect in Christianity and increasingly in Islam - JEWS - is particularly offensive. Is this clear, I hope?

There was another bombing last night, in Pakistan. People were killed, injured. The target was a KFC of all things. Symbols of the west are being attacked. Was Bali a set-up too? What about the beheadings of Christian girls in Indonesia or the bombing by British Muslims in London? More set-ups? What about all the bombings in Israel? More set-ups?

Just a few days ago, police in Australia were fortunate to stop a terror attack on a nuclear power plant before it went off. Other threats are being deflected, all over the world. Jordan itself has stopped many attacks in advance, similarly, Israel has been able to interdict bombers. But sometimes even the best security fails and people die, horribly. You should check out the injuries from these bombings also. The recent attack in Israel killed six people who were shopping for fruit. Body parts were scattered all over town. Injuries usually include terrible burns, often blindings, amputations. Blaming the people who didn't do it is just WRONG.

It is time to stop with the conspiracy theories and address the real issues, which include the fact that violent people are using the most horrendous means - explosive belts packed with ballbearings to inflict maximum damage among them - to target civilians ALL OVER THE WORLD. I don't know how to change this and I doubt anybody else does either. But trying to hide from the fact that this is occuring won't make it go away, and neither will attempting to deflect blame onto people who had nothing to do with it. That is simply creating a different set of victims instead of targeting the people who did the deed.