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Not to mention the main reasons Al Qaeda doesn't like us seems to be to our support of Israel and our lack of action on global warming. I'm sure they don't like the way we treat Muslims in the airport, but it doesn't seem to be a big source of terror attacks.

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our lack of action on global warming

That's an odd assertion. So is the "support for Israel" assertion, given that al Qaeda kills plenty of Muslims too, who they feel aren't up to snuff. At least the Israel argument is widely repeated - but al Qaeda as climate change activists?

I thought the global warming comment was a bit odd too. From a quick Google it seems that Bin Laden does indeed have something to say about global warming. It was on Fox News, so must be true:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/01/29/bin-laden-blames-glo...

The one thing that the climate change researchers don't need is Osama Bin Laden on their side. That makes an already ugly controversy even uglier.

"Not to mention the main reasons Al Qaeda doesn't like us seems to be to our support of Israel and our lack of action on global warming. I'm sure they don't like the way we treat Muslims in the airport, but it doesn't seem to be a big source of terror attacks."

They don't like us because of our lack of action on global warming? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAH.

It sounds like they are catering to the lefties in the US. The group that they can win over and use as a tool to infiltrate the US (The left hates the US military and Christianity..).

It's not a source of terror attacks because it's damn near impossible to get anything into the airports.

What evidence do you have please? Seriously, there are just so many conjectures here. What Al Quaeda fundamentally likes or dislikes for instance, may have nothing to do with the actual reason pushing a young suicide bomber to accept the task. Many known cases of westerners becoming terrorists show a personal history of extreme religious views, which this sort of customs treatment can only serve to exacerbate, no?

bin Laden has been fairly clear on this point: he doesn't think the United States should be involved in the affairs of Muslim nations. He thinks its an outrage that US troops are stationed in the same country as Mecca. There are other offenses on his list, to be sure, but this is the big one.

Sounds quite similar to this viewpoint: "In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple....meddling as little as possible in [other nations'] affairs where our own are not involved." — George Washington

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