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In early August news broke of a plan to explode multiple passenger planes en route from Britain to the United States. This made the world painfully aware that Islamic terrorists have not abandoned their obsession with killing people and crippling Western economies.
But since 9/11, outside of Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan, there have been surprisingly few successful terrorist catastrophes in the world, and none on the scale of the nearly 3,000 deaths on 9/11. It's especially noteworthy that Islamic terrorists have been unable to wreak more death and destruction in America-to them "the great Satan"- the country they hate the most other than possibly Israel.
The world has become increasingly aware of how extremely vulnerable nearly every country is, especially the open free societies, to sabotage and mass murder. It is difficult to understand and defend against suicide bombers who glorify death instead of life.
Illegal immigrants, possibly including terrorists, easily cross the porous borders into the United States by the thousands. Potential killers lie their way through the legal immigration process. And as Britain in particular has seen, some terrorists are "home-grown" as well-usually young people whose minds have been methodically poisoned with hate.
What do almost all the terrorists have in common? They are Muslim extremists who justify killing non-Muslims ("infidels") based on certain passages in the Koran, passages they quote openly.
How did they get to be that way? Some were influenced by charismatic terrorist leaders. Many have been influenced by radical imams (religious leaders) preaching in mosques and Islamic schools, blaming all the world's evils and the flaws in their own cultures on non-Muslims. Many youngsters are fed a diet of victim-mentality and hate by school systems in their countries and, sadly, by their own parents.
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