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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Jared Sorhaindo</title>
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		<title>Robert Pape: Blaming Suicide Bombings on the &#8220;Occupation&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is terrorism against Israel ever the fault of religious fanatics? ]]></description>
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<p>Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, gave a lecture titled “<a href="http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&amp;CalendarID=106&amp;EventID=80763">Cutting the Fuse: Moving Beyond the War on Terror</a>” on October 28, 2010, at Georgetown University. The room in which it was held was packed to full capacity, which gives an idea of his celebrity.</p>
<p>Pape has garnered much attention and influence in recent years for his thesis that the vast majority of suicide bombings—“well over 95 percent of them,” as he put it— are motivated by foreign military occupation. The goal is tactical: to kick out the occupying power. Pape expanded on this thesis, noting that he approaches the study of suicide bombings as an oncologist approaches the study of lung cancer and, as such, has concluded that foreign occupation triggers suicide bombings in the same way smoking triggers lung cancer. Therefore, he proposed, ending foreign occupation should eliminate the majority of suicide bombings. The remaining examples would just be “flukes,” such as victims of lung cancer who never smoked a day in their life.</p>
<p>Pape explained that while strong religious beliefs can serve as the immediate trigger for a suicide bombing, religious fervor is often a byproduct of helplessness, which, again, allegedly stems from occupation. He summed it up:</p>
<blockquote><p>From Lebanon to the West Bank, from Iraq to Afghanistan&#8230;the main goal has been to gain self determination from a foreign occupier.</p></blockquote>
<p>In support of his thesis, Pape noted that the world’s leading suicide bombers between 1980 and 2003 were the Tamil Tigers, a secular Marxist group in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, he argued, Hezbollah has not committed a single suicide bombing since Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon in 2000. Yet Pape’s premise is fallacious, as it presumes that Syrian troops, which were stationed in Lebanon until the Cedar Revolution of 2005—five years after Israel’s withdrawal—were not occupation forces. Given the massive demonstrations against the Syrians and their constant interference in Lebanese affairs—including a <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2007/06/israel-and-syria-going-to-war">possible role</a> in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which sparked the revolution—Pape proffers a selective definition of “occupation.”</p>
<p>Pape’s thesis also ignores massive Iranian support for Hezbollah and the terrorist organization’s possible role in Hariri’s assassination. Earlier this month, this ostensibly benign army undertook a <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4725.htm">simulated takeover</a> of Lebanon should the international tribunal investigating Hariri’s assassination find Hezbollah culpable. Pape thereby employs a double-standard: Israeli troops are foreign occupiers, while Arab troops occupying Arab countries are ignored.</p>
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		<title>Voice of Hate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared Sorhaindo]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The insane musings of Prof. Muqtedar Khan. ]]></description>
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<p>On June 17, Georgetown University held the event “Evangelicals &amp; Muslims: Perspectives on Mission &amp; Partnership” at its Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. The last of its four panel discussions wrestled with the question: “Can Muslims and Christians be Partners in Reconciliation and Conflict Transformation?”</p>
<p>The crowd, at least 100 strong, consisted largely, if not exclusively, of professors and students. The panelists were <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=muqtedar+khan&amp;sa=Search">Muqtedar Khan</a>, professor of international relations at the University of Delaware and director of its Islamic Studies program; Louay Safi, of Indiana University and Purdue University; Chris Seiple, president of the Institute of Global Engagement; and David Shenk, a consultant for Eastern Mennonite Missions.</p>
<p>Khan, who spoke first, <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4625">refused to appear</a> on a 2007 academic panel with an IDF veteran who had served in the West Bank, yet somehow maintains a veneer of moderation. A fairly charismatic speaker, he got off the ground quickly by claiming a moral equivalence between Pat Robertson and Osama bin Laden. “We must condemn the extremists in our midst,” he said, patting himself on the back for denouncing bin Laden. While Robertson has undoubtedly made controversial statements, comparing him with bin Laden, whose terrorist organization has murdered thousands of people in the United States and abroad, is appalling and absurd.</p>
<p>Khan labored to prove his ecumenical bona fides by asserting that evangelicals and Muslims are the two most marginalized groups in the United States. If one needs proof, he noted rather bizarrely, just look at the make-up of the U.S. Supreme Court, whose members represent neither group. Khan failed to note the obvious demographic error with his analogy: surveys indicate that evangelicals make up at least a quarter of the country’s population (or over 70 million people), while <a href="http://b27.cc.trincoll.edu/weblogs/AmericanReligionSurvey-ARIS/reports/ARIS_Report_2008.pdf">reliable figures</a> placed the Muslim population at about 1.4 million in 2008. The audience nodded and murmured with approval at this statistical sleight-of-hand.</p>
<p>And, of course, what’s a panel discussion on religion without the gratuitous insertion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? In Khan’s own words, “Muslims and Christians make up two-thirds of the world’s population. What is a major, if not <em>the</em> major, thing they have in common?” Why, their “partnership in pain” under Israeli occupation. Evangelical Christians, Khan added, must reject the pro-Israel majority of their brethren, who, through their support of Israel, are helping to inflict the “greatest oppression that Muslims suffer.” No mention was made of the pain of <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704304504574610022765965390.html">Palestinian Christians</a> under their Muslim brethren, nor of the oppression suffered by Muslims at the hands of their co-religionists.</p>
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