And that is what makes them terrorists.
Let me ask you a question. If 15 years ago, a more powerful Muslim nation invaded America, what would your personal response be? If they were dropping bombs on civilians and killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, what would your response be? Starting in the 1940s the Western World through a United Nation's mandate created a western nation adjacent to some of their religion's most sacred sites, and because the West was more powerful, that nation was protected..........yet to many in the Middle East this was an invasion. Now what made two men strap horrible bombs to their bodies and go and kill westerners? Bob believes that it is solely religion. I believe religion is part of it, but were the kamakazi pilots of WWII religious fanatics, or was the only response to a more powerful nation about to invade their homeland.....suicide? I believe it goes more to the battle of modernity and the clash of cultures than a solely a religious motivation by those who use terrorism in the battle. Now would it be my Christianity which would characterize my resistance to the invading forces, or would it be a more complex analysis when I chose to become a terrorist against those invading forces. Would it simply be Muslim vs Christian, or would it be the powerful against the powerless. All the while for almost a hundred years since the end of WWI the people of the region have seen their autonomy and culture attacked and divided up by the colonial powers as brutal dictatorships were installed to serve the western oligarchies......yep......if you give a simple answer which masks our responsibility for part of the equation of violence in the world today.......it sadly only gives us license to abuse the powerless more.