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Who're they trying to fool?
by Raid Qusti
Who are we trying to fool? Ourselves or the international community? Neither can be fooled.
| Nobody at Rantburg ever bought it... |
Itâs about time we got our act together. The time of pretending that radicalism does not exist in Saudi Arabia is long past. The time for pretending that we are above errors and could not possibly commit terrorist attacks is no longer with us. It has got to stop. Change must come now. We as a nation cannot afford to leave it to its own slow pace. Itâs either now or never. It also must cover all aspects of our life â the school, the mosque, the home, the street, the media.
| But you won't. You'll talk for awhile, and the Bad Guys will shut up. Then you'll get tired of it and they'll come back. They never get tired of it... |
How can we tell the rest of the world that we are tolerant of other religions and faiths when some of us are not even tolerant of other schools of Islamic thought?
| The rest of the world can see your country for what it is: a cesspool of xenophobia and intolerance, ruled by a corrupt oligarchy. You're the ones who're missing that... |
How can we expect others to believe that a majority of us are a peace-loving people who denounce extremism and terrorism when some preachers continue to call for the destruction of Jews and Christians, blaming them for all the misery in the Islamic world?
| You can't. But you still won't stop. |
And the media? It seems that if the media are not flatly denying, they are following the see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no evil method. Just a few days ago, when a large terrorist plot was foiled in Riyadh and the terroristsâ hideout was raided, what we read the following day in the local media was the head of the Muslim World League denouncing the act, saying that Islam and terrorism are not linked. The sheikh said that killing innocent people was a crime in Islam.
| Nope. Nope. No relationship. It's only coincidence that the all major terror organizations in the world are run by Muslims, and that most of them are run by wahhabis... |
We already knew that. But we needed to hear more than that. We needed to hear three questions that are never asked. Like dust, they are swept under the carpet: Why are more and more Saudi young men being fed with radical ideas? Who are the people brainwashing them? How are they being radicalized? And so it happens that so much dust is swept underneath the carpet that it finally bursts out in full view of everybody. At last, the truth that was hidden has come out.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-05-14 |
