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Why Jihadists target the West - -

By Howard LaFranchi

from the July 28, 2005 edition

Why jihadists target the West

Experts differ over whether recent terror is driven by 'who we are' or 'what we do.'

By Howard LaFranchi | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON � A recent global upsurge in Islamist terrorism is rekindling a debate over the extremists' motivations that first spiked after the 9/11 attacks: Is the violence aimed at who we (the West) are - or at what we do?

For some experts, the attacks - whether in London or Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - are aimed at the West for what it is doing: in other words for its policies, like the war in Iraq. Others insist that the perpetrators are more at odds with the ideals of the West and "who we are."


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