Is the war on terrorism a scam in which governments pretend to battle evil only to cover their own sins? In our second offering from the Saudis today, Al-Madina’s Dr. Saeed Atia al-Ghamedee writes that while deluded young men destroy themselves for a perverted version of Islam, governments commit every sort of crime in the name of battling terror.
For Al-Madina, Dr. Saeed Atia al-Ghamedee writes in part:
A Muslim needs to be strong and intelligent and have the courage of his convictions – but not by setting off bombs and creating destruction among innocent victims who have nothing to do with what al-Qaeda is fighting for.
The biggest problem with al-Qaeda is that by opening the toxic door of terrorism, it also invited the corruption, imprisonment, detention, wiretapping and rendition committed by many regimes and governments, which had no trouble doing whatever they liked as long as they had al-Qaeda or terrorism to blame it on.
How much has been spent? How many well-guarded and high-walled fortresses have been built? How many streets have been closed? How many vehicles have been searched? All in the name of a battle against terrorism which has become such an influence on every aspect of our lives that we see and don’t see, hear and don’t hear, understand and don’t understand, and that we won’t be able to dismiss even after the battle is done.
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