# Why would militant Muslims attack the holiest of holy Muslim places?

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**Created:** [November 6, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-militant-muslims-attack-the-holiest-of-holy-muslim-places/211715 "2003-11-06T16:39:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-militant-muslims-attack-the-holiest-of-holy-muslim-places/211715/21 "2003-11-10T14:49:45Z")

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> \*Originally posted by RickJay \*  
> Lots of Catholics commit crimes in Rome.

Do they commit crimes SPECIFICALLY as an expression of their “greater Catholic faith” or “greater fidelity” to Roman Catholicism than the Pope has?

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**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-militant-muslims-attack-the-holiest-of-holy-muslim-places/211715/22 "2003-11-10T16:14:06Z")

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Triskadecamus:

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> I don’t see the advantage of spending energy exploring the philosophical beliefs of criminals. They are just thugs, I don’t want to hear their opinions.

It’s called motive, and imortant avenue to pursue when fighting crime. O course, you don’t need to hear the bonbers’ opinions because fighting them isn’t your job.

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**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-militant-muslims-attack-the-holiest-of-holy-muslim-places/211715/23 "2003-11-10T16:43:14Z")

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I was with my dogs, don’t blame me. I look Slavic - Germanic, which can be mistaken for Jewish by some people when you get really tan. Still, not my fault. I have blue eyes. I swear, take me last!!!

I think it has something to do with [this](http://www.ict.org.il/articles/fatwah.htm). [Andrew Sullivan] Money Quote: [/AS] [seriously, don’t even try to say I did not /AS. He’s gone. Let go.]

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> The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies–civilians and military–is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God, “and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together,” and “fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in God.”

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