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Originally Posted by The Bear
But the difference is that the men and women who conduct military attacks do so because they are the military wing of a government acting under legitimate instruction as part of a military campaign and not simply out of religious conviction. Very often what they are required to do runs counter to their religious beliefs.
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Being part of a gov't gives you no legitimacy to attack civilians. In fact gov'ts have always been the worst terrorists and usually to their own people.
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The Muslim who ties an explosive belt to himself and goes out to kill civilians does so not because he is a part of a military wing but out of his religious convictions.
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So? The only difference in my view is that one is not representing the people but on the other hand when the West attacks Islamic counties it isn't representing their people, which is what matters, anyway.