Mentality Crash between the Middle Ages and the 21st Century

I watched an exerpt from an Al Jazeera program broadcast on February 21, 2006. It is an interview of Arab-American psychiatrist Wafa Sultan. Here is a link to a manuscript of her comments. Here are some of her remarks (italics added):

The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust), and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror, with their work, not their crying and yelling. Humanity owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish scientists. 15 million people, scattered throughout the world, united and won their rights through work and knowledge. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people. The Muslims have turned three Buddha statues into rubble. We have not seen a single Buddhist burn down a Mosque, kill a Muslim, or burn down an embassy. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

If the radical islamic groups want to take over the world from the infedels, there's no better way than winning the world over by constructive means, not the destructive means the radical islamic groups currently are trying to use. If these groups want respect, would it not be better to get respect from achievements in work and knowledge, as Wafa Sultan states, than to get that respect out of fear? The world, for the most part, will continue to fight intimidation by violence and threats yielding little, if anything, to these islamic groups that terrorize the civilized world.

It makes me wonder about the true motivations of terrorist groups. I do not see how it can be about their god, their religion. That must be a mere front for their true motivations - power and control. What god wants a person to not use their mind and spirit to create a better world for all? I wonder if they truly know what they want, championing a cause with simple means and simple "rewards". Finding no true satisfaction in the destruction and death they foment, they try more in hope at some point it will mean something. Little do they seem to realize they are only destroying themselves and whatever supposed cause they are championing.