Should we worry?

People in Skypeland often suggest to me that there is no reason to worry about Islamic terrorists, or Islamic radicals. I am told over and over that the Jews, or the Americans, or the West, or Christians, or nonbelievers, or the English, or the AngloSaxons, or the Israelis etc are the biggest threats to World Peace. I will certainly admit that huge mistakes have been made, and there have been serious instances of "blow back" from support of the Mujahideen, or the Shah, or the Saudi Royal Family, or anticommunist movements, etc around the world.

But this does not mean that there are not threats which we should at least be aware of and educate ourselves about. Here is an amazing article from the New York Times which gives some chilling examples:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/us/15net.html?_r=1&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Organizations/A/Al%20Qaeda%20in%20Mesopotamia&oref=slogin

I suggest that watching the videos associated with the article (on the left hand side) are quite valuable to help one understand the situation. The West must pay attention to this threat, or there will be increasingly serious consequences.