Islamic Radicalism: Is it a war on the US, Israel, and the West...or...
Islamic radicals are waging war in nations where Islam is the official or unofficial religion. They are killing other Muslims at an alarming rate. The extremists are attempting to rule with a particular perversion of Islam. What has that got to do with the US, Israel and the West?
Since America's cultural foundation has both Christian traditions of the Church
and Constitutional principles of the State,
then any person, group or nation that does not have an adequate
system of checks and balances against abuse of religious or political authority
tends to turn to the West for "reinforcement" of either Christian or Constitutional principles or both.
Technically, the laws or teachings in Christianity are universal, as are
the Constitutional laws of democratic govt are based on natural laws for all humanity.
but in practice, if people don't reinforce these, by taking the laws to conscience and
living them as part of the culture, then these standards don't exist. So people run for
support wherever these standards are enforced, and "petition" there to solve otherwise problems denied or neglected.
So if people cannot get support for "equal justice and peace" from where they are,
then problems repeat, circulate and multiply until they become America's problem
to address and solve. Not because "we're better than anyone else" but because we
have access to freedom of speech and press to address things in an open
environment, public or private, even over the internet if you count that as using resources from America.
Where people have enough support to solve their own problems
these do not escalate and do not require America's free press/speech assembly/petition
etc. to hash through the cause of the problems in order to solve it.
So that is how this becomes America's issue, since we do have religious freedom, free speech etc. to address problems while other countries don't recognize as much freedom.
(and it becomes an issue with Israel, where the political infighting for control there has become an issue of sidetaking, with America traditionally defending Israel and thus
being seen as biased against the Palestinians and Muslims. it does not help that the US govt including both Dem and Rep Presidents have a worldwide reputation of funding arms/wars for regimes that favor the US even if this means genocidal massacres against the opposition.
Dante if you want the whole history of that, Amy Goodman and NPR calls out all the Presidents regardless of party for any contributions or support they make towards any wars.)
