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Why were we attacked by Islamic terrorist on 9/11?

After 9/11, President Bush claimed that we were attacked because they hated our freedom. It has been repeated by any number of our political elites that Muslim extremist want to engage in attacks because of our culture (open homosexuality, women's rights, Hollywood, beer drinking, what have you...). But the evidence indicates that although they do not like our culture and ways, this is not what motivated the 9/11 terrorist or Al Qaeda.

Does anyone know what the real reasons for these attacks were, and why Obama's foreign policy will only continue the contempt that much of the Muslim world feels towards America?

Update:

Edit: consrgreat, you couldn't be more wrong. I would suggest you read a bit on the subject. You can start with Imperial Hubris by Michael Scheuer. He was the former head of the CIA's Bin Ladin unit. He was the man in charge of tracking and evaluating Al Qaeda's goals, plans and motives till the year 2000. He predicted a major attack on our soil for years... and the reasons are not what you so ignorantly assert.

Update 2:

ck4829 is onto something big! I'm amazed that someone actually said this so quickly! Good Job!

Update 3:

Anoynomous user... Your answer is good. I just wish you would have limited it to the confines of Islamic hatred. Nevertheless, yours is the best answer so far.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    They don't 'hate our freedoms" the way Bush wants you to think.

    It was "payback" for operation cyclone and U.S. imperialism in the Middle East.

    The numbers of innocent Americans that died on 9/11 are MINUSCULE compared to the amount of innocent men, women, and children in the Middle East that have died at the hands of US imperialism.

    i'm not defending the Muslims that choose Jihad, just stating a statistical fact. The United States also sold weapons of mass destruction to certain middle eastern countries.

    The United States have tried to overthrow OVER 50 governments since the end of WWII, most of them being democracies. The US tried to replace them with right wing dictatorships that serve the corporate interests of Washington at the expense of the people's resources in the native countries.

    American Double Standards.

    CIA = Most dangerous terrorist orginization in the world.

    Troops of mercenaries, plans of assassination of foreign leaders, burning of industries and crops! Well if this is not terrorism, what is it, then?

    Case example:

    Years of brutality and torture at the hands of the Shah's U.S.-trained secret police,Savak. The American people lack an awareness that we prompted Iraq to attack Iran and indeed provided extensive material support to Iraq in a long and bloody war that cost 2.5 million Iranian lives. Most of all they neglect the obvious fact than in it's 30-year history the Iranian government has hurt no one,attacked no nation and consistently conducted itself as a law-abiding member of the international community. The International Atomic Energy Commission has found that they are not producing weapons-grade enriched uranium. Yet the Israeli Benny Morris in his July 2008 New York Times editorial calls for a nuclear attack to turn it into a "nuclear wasteland". And how many nations have been attacked,invaded and occupied by the Tel Aviv regime? But Americans will not be mindful of that.

    Case examples include Operation mongoose in Cuba and the US imperialism in Haiti.

    On July 28, 1915, U.S. forces invaded Haiti, launching an occupation that would last 19 years. The U.S. invasion came in the wake of President Woodrow Wilson's professed commitment to make the world safe for democracy. However, as soon as the Marines landed in Haiti, Wilson's administration remapped the country into police departments, shut down the press, installed a lame-duck government, rewrote the constitution to give foreigners land-owning rights, took charge of Haiti's banks and customs and instituted a system of compulsory labor for poor Haitians. Those who resisted the occupation -- among them a militant peasant-run group called Cacos -- were crushed. By the end of the occupation, more than 15,000 Haitians had lost their lives. A Haitian gendarmerie was trained to replace the U.S. Marines, then proceeded to form juntas, organize coups and terrorize Haitians for decades.

    ^ Thats the kind of thing that the United States has caused in the Middle East, South America, Central America, Africa, and Asia.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    George Bush Senior said we attacked Iraq because they were not going along with the New World Order. 17 of the 19 terrorists were from Arabia. The Russian secret police planned the attack so why did George Bush declare that we had to go after Iraq? To enforce the mandates of the United Nations-the New world Order.

    Source(s): Speech given by Senior at the U.N. the book of Daniel- old testement. News media. They tell you exactly what is going on right there on the silver screen if you can speak the language of the intellectual. Basic Documents of the United Nations.
  • 5 years ago

    So what is your point? Heck any of our troops that try to deal roughly with them, end up being court martialed. And obviously, slapping their wrist and giving them a time out is just not going to cut it. Since most people object to the means necessary to stop it. Get used to it. 911 was about as direct and in your face as it gets. And over half the country still wants to kiss and play nice. Maybe we have grown too stupid to live. The only reason we are still here is they don't have the military force for a conventional invasion. They are seriously trying to conquer the world. But lacking a powerful conventional force. They seek to wear everyone down bit by bit. Well this little thing is not worth the fight, maybe it will appease them. Till finally the last little bit is gone.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Haven't you heard that's all a cover up Bush planned it from top to bottom the Cia, FBI, the joint chiefs, The Israelis all the presidents men in fact I heard a story that Osama Bin Laden tried to warn us of this attack but Bush intercepted this message and well history was made

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Actually is was because Usama was mad that his father was forced by the American oil men to launder money.

    Usama being a righteous man had a problem with the way his father was being lured into evil doing.

    Usama told many in 2000 that if the idiot son of the evil oil man was elected he would try again.

    We now know what he meant by try again.

    Funny thing is... If Gore won he was going to scrap his plans.

    What a different world a few votes makes, huh?

    Source(s): I am not on his side silly. I was working on writing a Christian Worker's Qur'an at the time. I was helping translate the Qur'an into what the Bible's answer to their scripts were. After two in our group lost their heads (literally) the rest of us gave up on the project.
  • 1 decade ago

    The radical Muslims follow the sixth pillar of islam The Jihad. They believe it is what their god wants them to do. The believe by martyring themselves they get a place in Paradise along with all their family. they also hate Christians and because this is a Christian nation the attack it.

  • 1 decade ago

    "Why were we attacked by Islamic terrorist on 9/11?"

    Because the Bush family hired “them” in order to attain a "New World Order"

    Source(s): Facts is facts...
  • 1 decade ago

    Yes,Islamic hatred knows no bounds.They are willing to kill anyone even children, to spread a message of hate.

    Source(s): Osama Bin LADINS ON WORDS AFTER THE ATTACK.
  • 1 decade ago

    What evidence?....They have openly stated these are the reasons being the decadent west ......

  • ck4829
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Blowback.

    "Operation Cyclone" came back and bit the US.

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