Gandhi>Bush said:
I suggest you read Usama bin Laden's letter to America. It's absolutely fascinating in my opinion, and might answer some of your questions. Some of his complaints are legitimate, some are not. If you take away all legitimate complaints rather than give him new ones, you will cut off his recruitment lines, but as long as you keep polarizing the Middle East into hating America and loving America, this war will keep going.
Fascinating in it's one-sided view?
"Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On what basis are we fighting?' These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not."
Only those that correspond with Islamic Law are legitimate?
In bin Ladens letter he makes a case for the wrongs done to his 'brethren' most notably in Palestine. In the reality of the world, bin Laden has stood pat in the face of Muslim death at the hands of fellow Muslims; who kill more of his brethren than anyone else. He has made had no complaints about Sudans mistreatment of Muslims by Muslims.
Of the starving in Iraq and the bloodshed by the U.S. (as he refers to the 1st Gulf war and the sanctions) he has no problem with the the fact that it was Sadaam who starved his own children, by compromising the Oil For Food program, and that it happened to be his 'brethren' in Kuwait that Sadaam was forcing his aggression upon.
Throughout all of the turmoil - that has been going on since before
he was born - this man of a peaceful religion of equality has not once attempted to effect peace. Oddly enough through a number of peace summits and attempts at peace accords that America has hosted, someone who claims to be driven by the plight of Palestine has never made an attempt to include himself in them. His first and only action/reaction has been violence.
And oddly enough, it was 7 years
after bin Laden declared war on the U.S. that America took action
against his actions, yet America are the war mongers. The benefit of the doubt is afforded to the man and organization that not only does not abide by conventions of war, does not recognize them and targets civilians, hidden behind the weak guise that since we pay taxes, we agree with all policies and therefore are free game and, to put it bluntly,
the intended target. To legitimize this, Americans are allowed to be painted with a monotone brush to collectively personify
our character as basically evil, God-less, racist dirt, while conversely,
we are constantly accused of being the racists. One only needs to take a good look at the treatment of the Kurds,
their own kind in Somalia, Sudan etc, of their treatment of Buddhists, Coptics and Christians in their lands, to get a good view of just how lofty the heights of judgment those who use Islam as a cover actually are.
I could go on and find fault with every point of his letter and point my finger at the wrong doings in his own house, that he's conveniently ignored while watching and judging his neighbors', but like the turmoil in the Middle East, this can go on forever. The fact that they have been recruiting and training and growing bolder with each unanswered attack only strengthens the idea that they have no interest in compromise, tolerance, diplomacy and an equal footing in this world.
Just read his intent...
In his letter he states his intent: Calling us to Islam. A Shariah state.
With all do respect to the religion, I don't want to be a Muslim. I have that right and if it's truly a religion of peace that a man may feel content within himself, he doesn't need others to validate it by becoming
like him. Like how in America we do not trespass into Mosques and Synagogues in an effort to subjugate them to
our beliefs.
The man of manners, that he claims to be, should also know that It's disrespectful to insinuate other religions are inferior by holding Islam above them, let alone quoting text that it's A-Ok to fight against disbelievers of Islam and Allah.
His attempt to abolish America's debauchery and overall evil suggests a God complex.
Polarized? Yeah, the tolerant vs. the intolerant.
