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Chant America Chant !

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There is ample reason to feel relief that Osama bin Laden is no longer a threat to the world,he deemed enemies and the world needs less of such zealotry, not more.

However,  relief was not the dominant emotion presented to America when bin Laden’s death was announced. And in this we see bin Laden’s more enduring victory , a victory that will unfortunately last far beyond his passing.

For decades, America has held in contempt those who actively celebrate death. When we’ve seen videos of Islamists cheering terrorist attacks against America, we have ignored their insistence that they are celebrating merely because the US has occupied their nations and killed their people. Instead, only because they are increasing the death of US innocents, but because, more fundamentally, they are celebrating death itself.

But in the years since 9/11, the US had begun vaguely mimicking those we say we despise, sometimes celebrating bloodshed against those we see as Bad Guys just as vigorously as our enemies celebrate bloodshed against innocent Americans they (wrongly) deem as Bad Guys. Indeed, an America that once carefully refrained from flaunting  pictures of American victims for fear of engaging in ugly death euphoria now ogles pictures of Uday and Qusay’s corpses, rejoices over images of Saddam Hussein’s hanging and throws a party at news that bin Laden was shot .

This is bin Laden’s lamentable victory: He has changed America’s psyche from one that saw violence as a regrettable-if-sometimes-necessary act into one that finds  euphoria in news of bloodshed.

Again, this isn’t in any way to equate Americans who cheer on bin Laden’s death with, say, those who cheered after 9/11. Bin Laden was a mass murderer who had punishment coming to him, while the 9/11 victims were innocent civilians whose deaths are an unspeakable tragedy. Likewise, this isn’t to say that we should feel nothing at bin Laden’s neutralization, or that the announcement isn't cause for any positive feeling at all , it most certainly is.

But it is to say that the US reaction to the news last night should be the kind often exhibited by victims’ families at a perpetrator’s lethal injection ,a reaction typically marked by both muted relief but also by sadness over the fact that the perpetrators’ innocent victims are gone forever, the fact that the perpetrator's death cannot change the past, and the fact that our world continues to produce such monstrous perpetrators in the first place.

 "USA! USA! USA!” at news of yet more killing in a now unending back-and-forth war , it’s a sign for the US to be inadvertently letting the monsters win.

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Momentum.

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It's the snowball effect--you start small, at the top of the hill, and as your snowball rolls down the hill it gains momentum and mass until you are able to blast across obstacles as if they were molehills instead of mountains.

The hardest part, of course, is the beginning, when you are trying to find enough snow to make a snowball so you can begin. The hardest part is gaining any momentum at all.

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Madrassas

If we try to resolve terrorism with military might only, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs only.” Greg Mortenson - Three Cups of Tea.


 
-Madarassas in Pakistan are Islamic seminaries in Pakistan that teach mostly Islamic subjects leading to graduation as a cleric (maulvi, maulana or mulla). There five major governing bodies of Pakistani Madrassas and their corresponding schools of thought are: Tanzim-ul-Madaras (Barelwi), Wafaq-ul-Madaras (Deobandi), Wafaq-ul-Madaras (Shia), Wafaq-ul-Madaras (Ahle Hadith) and Rabita-ul-Madaris (Jamaat-e-Islami)







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Choose Your Madrassas

If we try to resolve terrorism with military might only, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs only.”

"Tyrants Fear the Blooming Minds"


Greg Mortenson - Three Cups of Tea.






 
-Madarassas in Pakistan are Islamic seminaries in Pakistan that teach mostly Islamic subjects leading to graduation as a cleric (maulvi, maulana or mulla). There five major governing bodies of Pakistani Madrassas and their corresponding schools of thought are: Tanzim-ul-Madaras (Barelwi), Wafaq-ul-Madaras (Deobandi), Wafaq-ul-Madaras (Shia), Wafaq-ul-Madaras (Ahle Hadith) and Rabita-ul-Madaris (Jamaat-e-Islami)







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Cynicism and taunts of Israel and the US about "Jan.25th."

During the drastic events of the Egyptian uprising many foreign figures were absolutely jeeringly boasting about Mubarak's policies in Egypt. Whether from the US or Israel.


I will not mention Obama or Clinton's policies though.

-Biden for instance acquitted a claim that Mubarak is  not a dictator.  Doesn't this remind you of Sarah Palin?

-Thusly, what does this mean for the Israel?  On the other hand, it is true that some Egyptians are not pleased with their current peace-treaty with Israel and they resent American support for Mubarak. Per se, exporting gas to Israel for  really cheap pricing tolls.Anyway, some Egyptians always took to the streets in support of the Palestinian Intifada. But, Israel admirers are nervous but,  let’s be honest , bribing a ruthless dictator to maintain a cold peace with Israel was not a sustainable policy.  It is also two-faced. As Americans lectured Iraqis and Afghanis on democracy, funding one of the world’s most notorious autocratic.
That being said, regime change in Egypt is going to change the region and make it harder for Israel to maintain the status-quo.  The opposition’s informal leader Mohammad  ELBaradei is a criticof Egypt’s role in the Gaza blockade and it’s clear that any freely elected Egyptian government will push for an end to the Israeli occupation.I would sayL  It’s time for Israelis to wake up and realize its  not 1973.

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