If terrorists hate freedom, why haven't they attacked the Netherlands?

[Sandpiper]

I mean, isn't it about the freest nation on the entire planet?

[DenverDem]

1. The best retort yet

to busholini's absurd excuse for 9/11.

The correct answer is, "They hate us for our president."

[IdaBriggs]

2. Damn you for your logic! Freeper heads exploding everywhere! LOL nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. The Netherlands hasn't bombed the ME yet. n/t

[Mistress Quickly]

4. Just American freedoms

didn't you get the memo?

:P

[K-W]

6. And apparently spanish and russian freedoms. they are very picky

about the freedom they dont like.

[Sandpiper]

7. Russians have freedoms?

Well, not for much longer if Putin has his way.

[K-W]

11. Who can bother with freedom when we need to be so afraid.

TERRORISM!!!! BOO!!!

[zappaman]

5. Why do people hate america? is an excellent book.

I highly recommend this book by by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies.
We like to think of ourselves as good people, but when you read about what our government has done to other countries, it really opens your eyes.
We are nowhere near as good and righteous as we like to think...

[da_chimperor]

8. Maybe it's because Jan Peter Balkenende looks just like harry potter

with shorter hair. Don't believe me? Take a look!

[captainjack]

9. The Netherlands doesn't have an interest in Middle East oil

And they don't have a theocrcay and a fascist leader.

But other than that...I don't really know why they aren't attacked more often.

[bobbieinok]

10. we all know AMERICA IS THE FREEST NATION ON EARTH

you some sort of America-hater??

[goodboy]

12. I was just in Amsterdam this summer, and I had the same thought.

Nobody looked worried there...in fact, in Madame Tussaud's when I stood next to W and gave him the finger, everyone cheered me on!

[sweetheart]

13. They haven't attacked california either

They attacked the command and control center for the american
neoliberal financial domination of the planet that keeps them in
relative poverty. It is american-media disinformation that the
WTC was an innocent civilian target... certianly innocent civilians
worked there, but it was instrumental in (to quote a foreign
exchange trader: "Fucking the koreans", "Fucking the Argentineans",
"Fucking Mexico" and "Fucking Russia"... Finance has been used to
destroy entire nations as if it were a game... and somehow, the
participants in these overtly militarist acts of financial destruction,
have pretended that it was without karma.

The attacks were on the bases, command and control, and training
centers for foreign evil, within the american systm... pentagon, WTC.

48 other states are not attacked. Maybe those attackers were smart
and picked their targets more than randomly.

[Ezlivin]

14. Because our freedom is in English?

Perhaps the terrorists can't handle the umlauts.

[Brian_Expat]

15. They have attacked the Netherlands

Some of the hate speech by immigrant Muslim clerics against gays and women in the Netherlands must be heard to be believe. And there's a massive uptick of anti-gay and anti-Jewish violence, primarily implemented by recent Muslim immigrants.

It's not wide-scale fly-planes-into-buildings terror, but it's terror just the same.

[sweetheart]

16. jaw jaw jaw is better than bombs

Northern ireland is similar... no bombs at the moment... lots of
hateful stupid talk, but at least that's a start.

A world without terrorism is not a world at peace, but rather a
world of intense argument and emotive conflict, disagreement and
social change... no bombs. I think the mental concept of a world
"at peace" is a misrepresntation sold by stupid media... that somehow
you can't be at peace whilst having uncomfortable social changes.

[zbdent]

17. Because, any time a terrorist gets there, the cigarettes

get them stoned . . .