The Globalisation of Revenge  

"When you are angry with your ruler and can’t complain, you target his patrons in the West"

Shekhar Gupta draws a link between the suppression of democracy and freedom in Islamic countries [with the complicity of the Western Powers] on the one hand and the rise of "terrorist" cadres in such countries on the other hand.  The "terrorists", unable to act against their own governments, attack the Western nations that prop up their suppressors.  To quote from his article  "You are a Muslim in Saudi Arabia, Egypt — even Pakistan — or any other such pro-western dictatorship. You hate your ruler, you detest the denial of democracy. You hate it even more when you find how the same dictators suck up to their western (US and European) masters and carry on with their support. What can you do about it except sulk, retreat to the mosque and the madrassa and plan revenge. Then, who do you take revenge on?"   And .. "If the Europeans wish to address the root causes of Islamic anger, they have to get their fundamentals right. There is no point looking for esoteric explanations where the answers are pretty straightforward. The real problem with the Islamic world is the denial of democracy, with the complicity of the West"