<"Can you guarantee that a Wahhabi influenced youth will not blow up one of my cities?" > My response is the long crescent of terror and strong men from one end of the Islamic world to the other only indicates that these terrorists understand strength and force.
The issue is that we must single them out and for that to happen successfully, you need the moderates of the Islamic world. The last thing the world can afford is lawlessness in mass of land where a madman can plan in freedom these horrific and devastating activities. They should always be on the run. The war has to be taken to them. I am not a warmonger. I love humanity but unfortunately things have come to head.
The question is no more Osama…it is the huge expanse of land that becomes a hotbed of criminal activity. The world will have to understand that. The self-inflicted death of intellect in Islam a thousand years ago is the main cause of the retrogressive and unenlightened mullah culture in Muslim societies today and rise of these youths who are ready to kill and decimate. Osama self-selected messiahism has given them false hope as my friend Izzat eloquently had put ‘ his was too opportunistic and shallow a message to become a political movement of a revolutionary sentiment among the dispossessed Muslims of the world. If he was offended at the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia, the great majority of us Muslims do not give a damn.’
I would like you to know this background of Wahabism and its tentacles of terror; the individual 'Wahabi extremist' is more concerned about taking Saudi back into cave age if they are already not there!! That desire is driven by misplaced sense of Islamic thinking or rebirth of extreme form of Islam post revolution in Iran, to stop 'his' extreme action we need to be vigilant, permanently vigilant and keep looking at the outposts where these plans are initiated, US is doing fine by extending its defence to external frontiers beyond Atlantic for example into Northern Areas of Pakistan and in ex-USSR republics, they have to be on the run and US should pursue them with all its might, no other guarantees can be given or shall be viable! When the liberals as you know were busier with 'nicer' things in the White House, as they were sleeping on these threats that were raising their ugly heads in far off countries like Afghanistan.
Ditching areas to terrorists is something US cannot afford; mending these 'hotbeds of terror' will avoid possibility of an extreme act that you have mentioned. Keep an active role instead of insular instincts USA is a global economic power it has to act as one like England did in the early 20th and late 19th century.
That one Wahabi youth you refer too is one manifestation of earlier evils we have seen in this part of the world. This pedigree of misplaced youth is more like the beheaded dissident of 1979, Juhaiman ibn Muhammad ibn Saif al Utaiba, a Sunni, was from one of the foremost families of Najd. In 1979 at least 500 dissidents invaded and seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca on November 20.
The leader of the dissidents, Juhaiman ibn Muhammad ibn Saif al Utaiba, a Sunni, was from one of the foremost families of Najd. Juhaiman said that his justification was that the Al Saud had lost its legitimacy through corruption, ostentation, and mindless imitation of the West-- Juhaiman's accusations against the Saudi monarchy closely resembled Ayatollah Ruhollah Musaui, Khomeini's diatribes against the Shah. The Saudi leadership was stunned and initially paralysed by the takeover. The Grand Mosque surrounds the Kaaba, symbol of the oneness of God and believed by Muslims to have been built by the Prophet Abraham. The courtyard is one of the sites where the hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam, is enacted. Juhaiman's party included women as well as men, other peninsular Arabs, and a few Egyptians. A score of the dissidents were unemployed graduates of the kingdom's seminary in Medina. They had provisions for the siege they expected as well as extensive supplies of arms.
The government's initial attempts to rout the dissidents were stymied. Before any military move could be authorized, the Ulamas had to issue a dispensation to allow the bearing of arms in a holy place. When the religious problems were solved by announcement of the ulama's ruling, logistical problems bogged down the efforts of the military and the national guard for several days. Finally, two weeks later the military effort succeeded, and the dissidents were dislodged.
All the surviving males were eventually beheaded in the squares of four Saudi cities. Many of the dissidents had come from two of the tribes that traditionally have been recruited for the National Guard. King Khalid had spent much time with these people in the desert. Compounding the nightmare for the regime were Shia riots in Al Qatif in the Eastern Province two weeks after the siege of the Grand Mosque. Many of the rioters bore posters with Khomenini's picture.
Although these were not the first Shia protests in the kingdom (others had occurred in 1970 and 1978), the December rioters had become emboldened by Khomeini's triumphal return to Iran in early 1979. Up to 20,000 National Guard troops were immediately moved into the Eastern Province. Several demonstrators were killed and hundreds reportedly arrested. After the troubles of 1979 and 1980, the Saudi leadership began to take a more assertive role in world leadership. Saudi Arabia obtained agreement on the kingdom as the site of the meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in January 1981. Hosting the conference of thirty-eight Muslim heads of state was seen as a vehicle for refurbishing the Saudi image of "guardian of the Holy Places."
Also, the kingdom wished to present an alternative to the Islamic radicalism of Libya's Muammar al Qadhafi and Iran's Khomeini, both of whom had plagued Saudi Arabia in the previous two years, so in light of the history Osama and, Juhaiman ibn Muhammad ibn Saif al Utaiba are cut out from similar piece of cloth and have similar agenda. The 19 hijackers (of whom, most of them were from the Arabian Gulf) terrorist conduct could only be bred in a free country. In Saudi Arabia, there may be a 100,000 of these kinds of fanatics but once caught, they are beheaded in the public squares of Saudi cities.
This Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan as well as those conducted by Hamas like organisations flourish under the circumstances of freedom, which are conducive for them to operate. Under Israeli occupation, Palestinians are freer to indulge in terrorist activities. The terrorist cells in Arab Islamic countries are dealt with an ironclad hand. Only in a democracy and a free country, the horrors of 11th September.
Osama is a destructive mind and I vehemently disagree the claims that the destruction of the World Trade Center was an exercise that bordered on evil. The 11th September disaster was only possible due to the fact that the US is a free country, killing a whole city by pouring arsenic into the water supply is no feat of a genius. Similarly, crashing a plane filled with innocent passengers and full of gas is the product of a cruel and twisted mind.
This perversion has defined new lows of human conduct. These lowliest of characters are the new heroes of the extremists since they represent the worst form of evil under suitable circumstances. In their own countries, they would be ordinary, pious and respected men.
The psychopathic and megalomaniac human hating tendency are hidden in their sub-conscious. They fear death and understand retribution and this is the reason Bin Laden will run like a rat. The majority of the Islamic terrorists would be either headless or limbless if they dared showed a slightest of dissent back in their own countries.
The world must ask the Islamic states clearly: Where do they stand in terms of human life and dignity? The long stick of terror and strong men from one end of the Islamic world to the other only indicates that these terrorists understand strength and force. The issue is that we must single them out and for that to happen successfully, you need the moderates of the Islamic world. The last thing the world can afford is lawlessness mass of land where a madman can plan in freedom theses horrific and devastating activities. They should always be on the run. The war has to be taken to them. I am not a warmonger.
I love humanity but unfortunately things have come to head. The question is no more Osama or that youth…it is the huge expanse of land that becomes a hotbed of criminal activity without any supervision. The world will have to understand that.
Ike |
