Today marks the 13th anniversary of the horrific attacks on Sept 11. The loss of innocent life on that day was tragic and completely unjustified. In anger, however, America launched two utterly destructive invasions based on blatant lies and deceptions that were knowingly sold to the American people; millions of innocent people were affected; hundreds of thousands of lives were lost; trillions of dollars spent; entire countries destabilized; new techniques of torture were legislated; black-hole CIA sites and Guantanamos and Abu Ghraibs popped up around the world; new methods of killing innocent people such as drones were invented; the government began spying on its own citizens and indeed the entire world; and the anger and hostility that generated the terrorist attacks of 9/11 has only magnified and exacerbated. ISIS and other terrorist groups are the direct and causal effects of American invasions to those lands. Yet, sadly, in his speech yesterday, President Obama demonstrated once again that people simply never learn from history. You cannot win a War on Terror by terrorizing more people, and dropping more bombs, and falsely imprisoning tens of thousands who legitimately point out that whats at stake here is not fanatic Islamic fundamentalism, but rather political grievances stemming primarily from unethical and failed American foreign policy of the last half century in the Middle East. Indeed, ISIS needs to be stopped, but that can only be done by eliminating the root cause of the problem, not by bombing and killing more innocent people, as will inevitably happen in any invasion. The beheading of two American citizens is disgusting and tragic. Yet, because of it, it appears, once again, that the American public will be dragged into another military invasion, which will only increase the anger and hostility that so many nations around the world feel. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The lecture I gave three years ago in Washington DC, on the tenth anniversary of the attacks, is still as relevant today as it was then. https://youtube/watch?v=jcRLT4F2mvo Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 - Yasir Qadhi | 10th September 2011 Shaykh Yasir Qadhi represents a new generation of Muslim scholars and leaders.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:20:22 +0000
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