but really, we brought it on ourselves

[somedaybitch]

except for where we actually didn't.

"He's exasperated now, visibly angry at what he sees as a willful Western foolishness. "Stop asking what you have done wrong. Stop it! They're slaughtering you like sheep and you still look within. You criticize your history, your institutions, your churches. Why can't you realize that it has nothing to do with what you have done but with what they want."

emphasis mine

the speaker is Dr Tawfik Hamid, a man that trained under Ayman Al-Zawahiri. the quote is from his recent interview with Canadian journalist Michael Coren. read the whole thing.

Comments

[thevaliumsofalj.livejournal.com]

I've kept meaning to post this to my lj today... Thank God somebody finally said this aloud. I wonder if anybody besides us will finally listen and get it.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

it's a pretty impressive, and by impressive i mean totally creepy, interview.

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

the ultimate de-legitamization of someone else is to take credit for being the reason for the things they do, good or bad... really they would never act on their own. :massive eyeroll:

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

aaaaand, also...

To see victory as a curse and defeat as moral purification and salvation is to combine the ancient idea of hubris with the Christian virtue of humility, catharsis with apocalypse.

Why Intellectuals Love Defeat

TCS Daily via Instapundit...

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

this, yes, although i think it's also a defense mechanism, quite honestly. they can't understand that someone would want their destruction simply because they exist. it's a concept they refuse to grasp, so, in the brain's attempt to adjust/explain/make sense, they have to find reasons, and the only reasons that seem rational to them, because the events are SOOOO horrible, is that we must have done something to deserve it. it's classic victim symptomology.