The increase of terrorists, both homegrown and overseas, influenced by radical Islamic clerics citing wide-ranging complaints - from offensive cartoons drawn in Europe to Western cultural influences in the Middle East to the presence of U.S. troops in Muslim countries and U.S. support for Israel - underscores legitimate public concern with transferring detainees into what would become a symbolic and accessible target in the country's heartland.

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Last week's violence in the Middle East-- and, indeed, so much of it for the last several years-- is only because this movie (or whatever pretext, cartoons, etc.) runs afoul of mainstream Islamic shariah law of slander and blasphemy.

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Then too, when Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen reportedly agreed to apologize to the Islamic world for Denmark's independent Jyllands-Postens 2005 publication of cartoons of Muhammad in exchange for Turkish support for his candidacy for NATO secretary-general, he was accepting that it is Western civilization - with its freedom of speech - that is to blame for Islamic aggression and intolerance.

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