[rmnunez]

Your argument is shot to shreds if you want to justify terrorism ascribing to Muslims some victimhood at western hands.

Muslims are a a great variety and had different relations with outsiders at various times. Western colonialism was much more repressive, pervasive and predatory in other places which don't generate terrorists even though the colonizer still manipulates, exploits, offends and never apologized. If colonial experience with artificious boundaries, foreign occupation with discrimination, repression and exploitation 'naturally' induced terrorism Spain would be overrun with Aztecan terrorists. Where are all those black terrorists after the woes British, French, Portuguese, Germans, Italians and Spaniards visited upon Subsaharan Africans?

There are a number of western countries that have been quite good to Muslims. Citizens from former colonies are legally favoured by most former colonists, given immigration preference, easier naturalization, offered financial support and provided with social benefits. In western countries religious discrimination is not allowed so we've cetainly not got any de jure (while the opposite is the case throughout the Muslim world). Western governments do not impede the practice of any religion and have allowed the construction of mosques (its rare if not forbidden to find a heathen temple in any Muslim country). Christian missionaries don't abound in Muslim countries because they are not allowed, bibles and religious artifacts are forbidden in many of them. No public display of religious faith is allowed on buildings in many Muslim countries, and in some these are even forbidden on the person.

The only explanation I can find for this Islamic fundamentalist terrorism (and the lack of any significant and unified Muslim denunciation or oppsition thereto) is intolerance and vengefulness. This may even be a cultural identity feature common to Muslims, nonetheless its incompatible in the extreme with survival of the human species. To the degree it is claimed the terrorism the US leads the way in fighting, is 'natural', it is argued Muslims everywhere need to be exterminated for their insurmountable intolerance.