I am not using rhetoric but only stating the obvious - the flying of planes into the buildings and blowing oneself up was not only the next logical step but also the inevitable consequence of the years of suffocation. Imagine a pressure cooker on fire whose all vents have been sealed shut. The dictators in the Muslim world would not survive a day unless they are supported by their foreign masters. Just take the example of Pakistan where Musharaf's removing himself from power was inevitable since this regime was seen as a paraih regime isolated by the whole world. The economic cost for army to stay in power was becoming unbearable and then 9/11 happened and military sold their soul to the devil. Now the dictator is treated as a state guest by those very people who are destroying one country after the other in the name of democracy. Same thing with Qaddafi - as soon as he agreed to fight the fight for West against those who are resisting West, he has become a friend. Take another example of Palestinians. As long as they were fighting Americans by hijaking their planes and attacking their military bases in middle east they were accorded with 1984 peace accord and then Oslo peace accord. But as soon as they "made friends" with Americans and concentrated their struggle only on Israel, they are being murdered by the dozen everyday literally for past so many years and in the whole wide world there is no one heeding their plight, not even those who are destroying country after country in the name of democracy and human rights. The point, in short is that, there is evil and then there is this root of the evil. The evil cannot be stopped until the source of this evil is stopped first. It is like a tree; as long as its roots are in the ground no matter how many branches you chop off, it will keep shooting new branches but when you cut the roots.....

Your next point is about the "non-ummah" places where democracy has happened successfully. The point is valid but out of context. Muslims are different from "non-ummah" in a sense that the religion that they subscribe to has an integrally unseparable political ideology component as well. This political ideology can only be separated from a Muslim when you take his religion away from him and leave him with rituals. Islam is a religion that is anti-ritual; it is something that you live and breath with your every breath it is not a buffet from where you pick those things which suite your life style and leave those which don't. That is exactly the reason those "Muslims" who advocate secularism also advocate that Islam be rejected at all levels as well because they understand that two cannot go hand in hand. Islam as a political ideology is currently the only common sense ideology that challenges the global in-equality and injustice - the two root causes of deterrent to peace - extending beyond the barriers of nationalism, religion, colour and creed. Those who have stake in this inequality and injustice will not only oppose it but they will also make sure that this ideology is contained, restricted from evolution, and stripped off of any political power. That is the reason we have dictators who are supported vhemently by West, they want our education system controlled, they want our natural resources controlled, they keep our bureaucracy and politicians corrupt and they want to keep our economy dependent thru their agents and dictators. And if thru their dictators they have allowed us to exercise some form of political ideology (aka Islamization) these dictators have made sure that it is not let evolved and thus it has taken the most virulent form (e.g. Hadud and Blasphemy laws in Paksitan) .Muslims by nature are timid, peaceful, and easy going people on one hand but on the other hand raising voice agaisnt the injustice is the part of their religion. A time has eventually come that now some of them have started saying - enough is enough.

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people's back have been pushed against the wall and in order to fight back they are flying planes into the buildings and blowing themselves up in the cars.
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