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MUSLIMS
 
MUST AVENGE OSAMA'S ASSASINATION -IT IS THEIR
 
ISLAMIC DUTY
 
An appeal by S.M.PASHA, Convener,
ALL INDIA FORUM OF MUSLIM JOURNALISTS.
Chennai
South India
 
Osama bin Laden's death has brought joy to some and sorrow to others.  Those who rejoice will do well to peruse the Suratur Rum ( chapter 30 of the Quran) and  those grieve are  advised to read Suratur Rahman  (Chapter 55),  as the former reminds those who rejoice that  joy is closely followed by  sorrow and the latter that everything and everybody  has to taste Death except Allah, the Most Majestic Lord of the Universe. To the wise, these hints are enough.
 
 Osama, whose death is much talked about, was just yet another successful   Saudi Arabian businessman. He was a blue-eyed boy of the King. He was Number One  in Saudi's efforts to fund Arab fighters  battling against Soviet Union backed Afghanistan Government.  This exalted status was in place till he eventually turned against the Saudi monarch when the latter decided to
 
 allow American troops on the Arabian peninsula during the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990-1991.   Consequently, he was stripped of Saudi citizenship by  His Majesty the King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the holy Harmain-e-Shareefain  in 1994.
 
 
 The dramatic announcement about slaying of the fugitive and the manner in which his dead body was disposed of, has to be taken with a lot of salt. Assuming for argument's sake was slain, Osama was slain by American troops, why was the body so hurriedly and so heartlessly lowered into the sea.
 
 
 
Yet another important point which deserves to be examined by legal pundits is: America's action inside Pakistan without the latter's knowledge and consent,is, per se, unlawful as per  International Law. Pakistan has raised this question but the tone of its resentment and protest is extremely mild. The reason is not difficult to guess. If it does forcefully, it will without an iota of doubt, lose the crumbs, which are thrown by Uncle Sam.
 
America has violated all the canons of International Law and so Obama, its President, is a war criminal who must be hauled up before the International Court of Justice. Such a demand is a just and honourable demand.
 
Muslims can and should avenge Osama's assassination not by indulging in terrorist activities but through all possible and available peaceful means. Gandhiji, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King have proved the power of non-violent struggle even as our Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) showed it 1400 years ago. Osamas may Osamas may go but the struggle by Muslims
against oppression and injustice  should go on unabated till the goal is achieved'
 
MUSLIMS  REMEMBER:
YOU WILL HAVE TO ANSWER ON THE DAY OF JUDGEMNENT  WHY THEY FAILED TO DISCHARGE THEIR ISLAMIC DUTY.
 
NASRUN MINALLAHI FATHAHUN QAREEB,INSHA ALLAH


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Fueling Hatred and Revenge

The Assassination of Osama Bin Laden

By FIDEL CASTRO

Those persons who deal with these issues know that on September 11 of 2001 our people expressed its solidarity to the US people and offered the modest cooperation that in the area of health we could have offered to the victims of the brutal attack against the Twin Towers in New York.

We also immediately opened our country's airports to the American airplanes that were unable to land anywhere, given the chaos that came about soon after the strike.

The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.

Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista's tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.  Such behavior, which has been maintained for more than half a century, gives us the right to express our views about such a sensitive matter.

On that day, at a public gathering that took place at Ciudad Deportiva, I expressed my conviction that international terrorism could never be erradicated through violence and war.
By the way, Bin Laden was, for many years, a friend of the US, a country that gave him military training; he was also an adversary of the USSR and Socialism.  But, whatever the actions attributed to him, the assassination of an unarmed human being while surrounded by his own relatives is something abhorrent. Apparently this is what the government of the most powerful nation that has ever existed did.

In the carefully drafted speech announcing Bin Laden's death Obama asserts as follows:
"…And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the world. The empty seat at the dinner table. Children who were forced to grow up without their mother or their father. Parents who would never know the feeling of their child's embrace. Nearly 3,000 citizens taken from us, leaving a gaping hole in our hearts."
That paragraph expressed a dramatic truth, but can not prevent honest persons from remembering the unjust wars unleashed by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, the hundreds of thousands of children who were forced to grow up without their mothers and fathers and the parents who would never know the feeling of their child's embrace.

Millions of citizens were taken from their villages in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba and many other countries of the world.

Still engraved in the minds of hundreds of millions of persons are also the horrible images of human beings who, in Guantánamo, a Cuban occupied  territory, walk down in silence, being submitted for months, and even for years, to unbearable and excruciating tortures.  Those are persons who were kidnapped and transferred to secret prisons with the hypocritical connivance of supposedly civilized societies.

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended and its religious traditions desecrated.

How could he now prevent the women and children of the person who was executed out of the law and without any trial from explaining what happened? How could he prevent those images from being broadcast to the world?

Having assassinated him and plunging his corpse into the bottom of the sea are an expression of fear and insecurity which turn him into a far more dangerous person.

The US public opinion itself, after the initial euphoria, will end up by criticizing the methods that, far from protecting its citizen, will multiply the feelings of hatred and revenge against them.

http://www.counterpunch.org/


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