Al-Qaedas game changer Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque | Brunei 17.12.2014 Hey, you want to go to Paradise? OK then put this jacket on, now go into that café over there, shout Allahu Akhbar and press the button. BANG! 30 lives, plus the one of the brainwashed perpetrator, ruined, lost, 30 families plus one destroyed. And for what? For Islam, this is bad news. Those of us who have bothered to sit down with the Quran and read it from cover to cover (It is easily available online or from Embassies of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) have not found a message of hatred and repression and violence, but rather one of understanding, peace, cohabitation and respect - respect for other humans, respect for animals, even respect for plants. It reads as a mix half-way between Christianity and Buddhism. The Qu´ran is not a violent book, it is as good a code of ethics as any other religious text, and Islam is not a religion of violence, period. But most people do not instruct themselves, they make the minimum effort to be informed and allow themselves to be led by opinion leaders who jump to conclusions or else further their own interests. Watch this space. One more massacre, one more act of cowardice by some demented person or persons with mental issues, and right-wing xenophobic, racist groups of bigots will appear like mushrooms across the Western world, if indeed they are not already, adding to the already worrying political movements based on nationalism and intolerance. The extremists in our midst are very few but sufficient to spoil the party for everyone. A spectacular success like 9/11 (from the terrorist point of view, which is to sow panic and fear) is very difficult to carry out, whereas an attack against a soft target such as a school, cinema or shopping center, is easier than playing a game of table tennis. All you need is a grenade or two, an automatic weapon, some clips of ammunition, possibly an accomplice, or not... and it seems there are plenty of volunteers. People with no lives or prospects of careers in the western worlds wonderful economic model with its endemic unemployment or pseudo-employment, with its banks refusing to lend money in meaningful quantities or at meaningful rates, with the virtual impossibility to buy a house, get and keep a job and bring up a family. These volunteers are easily brainwashed by Internet campaigns to offer themselves as Jihadis or the wives of Jihadis. Radicalized, they will return, as welcome as a cancer, which they have become. But December 16 was a game changer, the day Al-Qaeda lost its battle, the day when Islamist fundamentalism died, blackening the hearts and souls of the collective conscience of humankind. It was the day Al-Qaeda associated itself with cowardice and the most vile, hateful and forbidden act anyone could commit: crimes against children. These are not Men, these are not Jihadis, these are not Moslems, these are not human beings. They are monsters without any grain of decency, totally unworthy of any respect. Al-Qaeda may have expelled Islamic State for being too violent. Yesterday Al-Qaeda jumped into the same bed. Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and Islamist fundamentalism have no place inside Islam, and have no place in our world today. This wonderful and beautiful home which Mother Nature gave us was supposed to be for us all to live together in peace, alongside our brothers and sisters, the other animals we are supposed to share it with. And so it shall be, without those who perpetrate such outrages. Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey Pravda.Ru english.pravda.ru/world/asia/17-12-2014/129332-al_qaeda_gamechanger-0/
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 15:46:00 +0000
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