If Muslims don't like the West, they know what to do - return from whence they came.

There are more Buddhists in Australia than there are Muslims. We don't hear Buddhists moaning and groaning about their lot in Australia, or being locked up for terrorist activities.

What do religious terrorists want? They want the approval of God. And since no scientific instrument can detect whether they have it or not, they will continue to be terrorists until they can convince themselves that they have it. Like the Green movement, religious agitation is not really about improving life for anybody: it is about establishing one's credentials as a fanatical pursuer of an irrational and totally unobtainable ideal. The religious terrorist is the barely-grown-up equivalent of the schoolboy who commands the admiration of his friends because he can piss highest up the wall.

Speaking of religion and terror/horror, as far as I know a priest "blessed" the Enola Gay and its pilots. Plus priests used to bless the B52's as they set off from Guam to carpet bomb North Vietnam.

But of course we are not, and never were terrorists!

We are "civilized". We murder indiscriminately from 30,000 feet, or via drones---all directed from the comfort of air-conditioned bunkers on the other side of the planet.

Meanwhile in a now quantum world everything is in one way or another interconnected---instantaneously.

Every act of horror/terror, no matter who does it and to whom, always in one way or another produces an equal and opposite reaction, response or manifestation. Either sooner or later.

Such is an immutable law of physics (especially quantum physics) and of the psycho-physics of the now collective world psyche.

A world wide psyche in which there is not a jot of separation to be found any-where.

As we (whoever, and wherever we are) sow, then we WILL inevitably reap.

I once was fiercely anti-Muslim but by mixing around with Muslims,reading extensively books and visiting foreign websites and visiting countries like Malaysia,Singapore and indonesia I find that the Muslims are presently caught up in the cusp of their own history interacting with the world of western cultures or countries with pro-western cultures.
One thing I have learnt is that Islam is a religion of peace and love. The ignorant and uneducated amongst them have had a field day doing what hate-filled imams flush with Wahabi petro dollars want, the destruction of the western democratic and secular civilisation with all its freedoms. Those who are in Australia are here because they find the socio-political conditions in their own country untenable. They are very welcome here as far as I am concerned.
Those who ask where are the imams and other leaders of Islam who denounce terrorism and bigotism and want to coexist in peace well they are beginning to be heard. There is the imam in London who only as recently as this week issued a fatwa against all terrorists and suicide bombers and other wannabes saying that they are all going to end up in hell fire in the after life. Others like him in mosques around the world are exercising their similar proclivities to snuff out the radicals. I believe that these radicals have had their day. Now and again they will still attack the country they live in but a new era in Islam is about to dawn.

socratease

I hope you are right Socratease...I sincerely hope you are right ..but from what I have seen and been exposed to I am not so sure...but your view is possible.

wasn't it the 72 virgins that the terrorist wanted? I think they are severely disappointed.