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Why do you think you know more about why Al Qaeda and ISIS attack the West than Al Qaeda and ISIS? They have explicitly and repeatedly stated other reasons for their attacks on the West than those you claim. Why don't you believe them?

To put it more simply: when Danish cartoonists are threatened for offending Islam, is that also because of imperialism?

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> They have explicitly and repeatedly stated other reasons for their attacks on the West than those you claim.

And why would you believe them? What they say on TV is also a weapon. People who don't come and negotiate but go straight to killing won't be posting their real goals on their website, they'll rather post something that helps further those goals.

"They" are also as cohesive as Anonymous.

ISIS are known masters of propaganda.

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