re: who are the real terrorists ?
All religions are like cancers. They manifest from a germ, grow, sometimes prosper & eventually die. Islam has only been around for 1300 odd years & is growing fast even when there is the old explosive hiccup.Islam is just a bastardisation of Christianity. Both the cause of many wars & inqusitions.Terrorism is just an extension of religious desperation, brain washing etc. I do acknowledge the right of anybody to be religious as obviously it is something they have to experience.May Allah be with you.
The perceptions persist. Immediately after 9-11, the _Wall Street Journal_, later others, began to investigate opinions of "moneyed Muslims": bankers, professionals, managers of multinationals, and so on. They strongly support US policies in general, but are bitter about the US role in the region: about US support for corrupt and repressive regimes that undermine democracy and development, and about specific policies, particularly regarding Palestine and Iraq. Though they are not surveyed, attitudes in the slums and villages are probably similar, but harsher; unlike the "moneyed Muslims," the mass of the population have never agreed that the wealth of the region should be drained to the West and local collaborators, rather than serving domestic needs. The "moneyed Muslims" recognize, ruefully, that Bin Laden's angry rhetoric has considerable resonance, in their own circles as well, even though they hate and fear him, if only because they are among his primary targets.[41]
