London Had Nothing To Do With Iraq

Here is a list of the major terrorist attacks. Following the logic of the left, all of these should have something to do with Iraq, regardless of whether the war had even begun yet or whether the countries had something to do with it or not. Remember, Islamic fundamentalism is solely related to the Iraq war. Before that, according to Sean Pean “Iraq was a peaceful place where children played in rivers of honey under a sky of cotton candy and everyone lived happily ever after.”

Paul Davies sums it up well:

Nothing anyone can do about it, really, if we withdrew from Iraq, they’d just go back to the Infidel argument, only shout a bit louder to heighten the effect.

The State Dept. has more information here and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has two good graphics here (in German, Hat Tip Grendel).And in case anyone needs more evidence that many (though there are surely exceptions) terrorists want not just to attack the US, but the west in general and institute Islamic law, then this should be enlightening:

Its aim is to resume the Islamic way of life and to convey the Islamic da’wah to the world. This objective means bringing the Muslims back to living an Islamic way of life in Dar al-Islam and in an Islamic society such that all of life’s affairs in society are administered according to the Shari’ah rules, and the viewpoint in it is the halal and the haram under the shade of the Islamic State, which is the Khilafah State. That state is the one in which Muslims appoint a Khaleefah and give him the bay’ah to listen and obey on condition that he rules according to the Book of Allah (swt) and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (saw) and on condition that he conveys Islam as a message to the world through da’wah and jihad.

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Based on this, the Party defined its method of work into three stages:
The First Stage: The stage of culturing to produce people who believe in the idea and the method of the Party, so that they form the Party group.
The Second Stage: The stage of interaction with the Ummah, to let the Ummah embrace and carry Islam, so that the Ummah takes it up as its issue, and thus works to establish it in the affairs of life.
The Third Stage: The stage of establishing government, implementing Islam generally and comprehensively, and carrying it as a message to the world.

More can be read at the Hizb ut Tahrir website.