I can't believe the igorance in this thread.
First of all, anyone that has studied the koran will know that there is only one justification of violence like this. If you try to get rid of the muslim religion, you will truly invoke jihad in its main context.
What you see are mainly just fanatics, have people ever heard of the Spanish inquisition? That is a 100x worse than this stuff. And that was from a Christian religion. People who do this however do not truly follow the religion which they associate themself with. Most people who associate themselves with a religion do not truly follow it either.
The amount of resistance to American occupation of Iraq has to do with the attempt to change the government structure without and real pre-planning whatsover. It was only a few months ago that we appointed the people in the government. Secondly the obvious change in attitude was because of this, a country that was initially thrilled with the Americans getting rid of Saddam now are doing every thing in their power to get rid of them.
And how on earth is retaliation to extremists in the same way that they treat us going to reduce their number? If anything it is going to increase their number.
