Three sound-bites

When the USA paid the first price on its own soil for its imperial doings, the spin-doctors moved quickly to provide a sound-bite, namely that ‘They hate our Freedom’. Bearing in mind that Islam began as a revolt against the corruptions of wealth and a determination to do something about them in this world not the next; bearing in mind further that modern Islamism was originally about reinventing social welfare; then I am surprised that the Islamists have not replied with a slogan of equal potency and much greater truth. How about, ‘They hate our Social Justice’? Or let us imagine that a Japanese were to use American logic: “Hiroshima was not a consequence of Pearl Harbour! The gaijin nuked us because they hate our bushido!”

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