Taking Responsibility
The French national of Moroccan origin got life today, and for that I say 'good'. The wannabe terrorist claims that he was fighting for Allah and today I saw his mother saying that she supports her son for standing by what he believes in. Selective editing of the news courtesy of EuroNews just to make her look deranged? I don’t know.
But the comments that were made were that of a stupid woman. Aicha El-Wafi, your son claims that he was training to fly a 747 aircraft into the White House and wished that more Americans were killed during the 911 attacks. For that I say there is loyalty that can be respected and then there is stupidity. You are stupid.If any of my brothers committed a serious crime that resulted in someone getting hurt or killed, even if was by accident, I would stand up and let the justice system take care of them. This is an example of real love. And even if I became too weak to hand them over to the police I still wouldn’t condone their actions by saying I support them only because they were my brothers (even in the matter of principles).But there is a bigger issue of responsibility here.
That French guy of Moroccan origin committed an act that did not come out of a vacuum and although responsibility lays with him for attempting to commit murder we have to question if any one nation should also take responsibility, after all this is the American model for retribution : Afghanistan got bombed into nothingness because the Taliban (who used to be fcuk buddies of America back in the days when Communists were still the international villains) wanted to stick to their principles and protect Bin Laden.While everyday some American somewhere talks about 15 out of the 19 hijackers had held Saudi passports, so obviously this makes Saudi Arabia to blame for the attacks and of course most recently the controversy concerning the US Ports deal, where American opponents state that two of the 911 terrorists were Emirati so that means handing over their ports to us would be the equivalent of handing over their ports to terrorists.
Where am I going with this? Oh yes that’s it…collective responsibility does not benefit anyone in times of international crisis but individual responsibility does. KSA looks bad because several of their national's committed a nasty act, but does that mean the Saudis should be demonized? No and neither should the UAE. If we take this approach to justice then that 'French national of Moroccan origin' should have his nation countries dealt with a similar manner. Bomb the Eiffel tower and embargo Morocco why don’t you?
Maybe Saudi Arabia is to blame for the 911 attacks. Not because of the extremist interpretation of Islam that is perhaps originating from some of your schools but because you are to blame that a certain segment of your population are so alienated from society that the only way they feel that they can get back at what they think is the bad guy is (Israel and US) is through acts of terrorism. I don’t have the answer and it is not for me to give my opinion, I just want to say that responsibility should be taken for our own actions and not scapegoats being made.
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Oh Mr Moussaoui, your American defendants saved your ass from the Death penalty (which I don’t think you deserved anyway) but remember there is judgment day and that insanity argument just wont cut it with the ultimate Judge who is going to be doing the judging.What needs to be done on our side as Arabs is to question why have we so failed in our understanding of Islam, that a small group of extremists (even if it was just one person) can believe that this is the correct way for fighting Jihad. Responsibility not only lies with us as a community but also with our teachers, and most importantly with ourselves.
posted by Jassim @ 5:50 AM
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