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Do muslims support terrrorists?
The answer is yes, no and maybe. It depends where the terror is, who the terror is against, who the Muslim is, where he is from etc.
If your going to launch personal attacks, I suggest don't read the rest of this and just post away, the rest of the material is not for you. For the rest of us who may still be reading take a very open minded look at this please.
There where people in America in the 90's that supported the IRA because they felt they were fighting a war for freedom. They contributed towards the Irish freedom struggle. These people where American but of Irish origin, thus felt still Irish and felt the British occupation as illegal and felt the actions of the IRA, however brutal as the lesser of two evils. I'm not saying all Americas did it might have been just a few people, but they did exist.
There are Iraqi's that feel the invasion of Iraq is unjust and thus the terrorist attacks in Iraq are a good thing to them, as they are attacks on the invaders and their supporters. Now there might only be a few people that hold that view, but the insurgency proves that they exist. These people feel that terrorism is the lesser of two evils.
There are people that believe that attacking innocent Israeli citizens is just because the Israeli's are living a free life on the land of the Palestinians where their nation is built, whilst the native Palestinian population is forced to live in squalors and refugee camps. Some people feel that injustice justifies the evil of suicide bombing.
There are even people that feel that the random attacks that Al Qaeda carries out against the western world are justified as the western world is not neutral in its opinions and interests. People are deluded enough to believe that.
I have never supported the attacks of 9-11 or any other attack by Al Qaeda like the African bombings or the bail bombings. I was 16 when 9-11 occurred. Eye's just opened to this world, what a horrific and violent and scary world I saw. I remember watching the news, they claimed nearly 50,000 people had died, I was like wow! How can you kill that many people? The next thing I hear is that Osama Bin Laden is to blame and I’m like "who's this guy?", "why are they blaming him, the attack only happened a few hours ago!".
Then we had Afghanistan is going to be bombed and I was like "But why? that's like a little poor country, what have they done?!". Later on a I grew up to realise that intelligence new the attack was going to happen, they pretty much watched it happen, they have known of the threats for years but nobody has paid the correct attention to them. I can under no circumstances justify any of these attacks or see a reason for them.
I used to support suicide bombing as a young man. The first I was told of suicide bombing was by dad when he told us about the valour of the Pakistani army in 1965 when to halt an Indian army advance to Lahore they lay in mud covered with bombs like human landmines. It nearly made me cry. But then I saw the start of the 2nd intifada through very innocent eyes. I saw kids throwing rocks at tanks, I saw Israeli soldiers opening up on crowds, and I saw a young boy shot dead in his fathers arms. I was 16 when I saw all that.
I felt against that back drop that suicide bombings could be justified I saw them as one evil against another evil, then in 2003/4 there was a suicide bombing on a university in Israel, I had just started university myself, a young girl was killed, 1st year. It shook my world. It almost felt like I died. For the first time I felt the emotion of an Israeli citizen being killed. It was like, I go to university, imagine if I was killed, what I’d feel what I’d miss, what my family would feel, what my friends would feel, what her family and friends where feeling, I felt all that. Since then I cannot justify any attack on Israeli citizens even against soldiers as I have studied my religion and I feel war without a declaration is incorrect and cowardly and murder.
You know I don't support the war on attack, for one reason alone, the political vacuum I knew it'd leave behind. I have no sympathy for Saddam Hussein, however I feel that a people should deal with their own problems, and I feel that Iraqi's should have taken Iraq themselves. The Kurds managed to secure themselves autonomous zones, why did people like Muqtada al Sadr not take advantage of no fly zones etc and wage a war against saddam? I feel we have left a gaping hole that will be filled with idiots and not leaders.
But then I don't support any insurgency either. I feel that under saddam Iraq had no hope, if there was no security issues in Iraq there would be no need for western forces in Iraq, thus Iraq would finally be free to do what it likes, I feel the insurgents are occupying Iraq if anyone. I think it's time they accepted they lost the war, and got on with life.
Now here comes the confusing bit...
I do support terrorist activity in Kashmir against Indian armed forces and any collateral damage. I feel that they have occupied my people, my homeland my past, my ancestry for the last 58 years, every other Muslim in SE Asia got a choice in 1947, we didn't, we got India and Pakistan fighting. We want that choice, we want freedom, and we want to do whatever we like without a million soldiers in our state. I feel that during the current peace process any attacks would be wrong but in normal conditions I don't care. Nobody else will do anything; this brings them to the table at least. Why can't we have a roadmap for Kashmir? Why won't anyone help us? Why can't we have UN peace keepers rather than Indian and Pakistani soldiers? there is part of m though that tells me today even that what's wrong is wrong, and I acknowledge that suicide bombing, terrorist actions are wrong, but what can we do that is right, apart from continue to suffer?!
You see we can all sit and talk until it comes to our door. Imagine if Mexico invaded America (I know really dumb analogy), but imagine if they did, and they took over, would you not do anything to be free? I know I would.
If your going to launch personal attacks, I suggest don't read the rest of this and just post away, the rest of the material is not for you. For the rest of us who may still be reading take a very open minded look at this please.
There where people in America in the 90's that supported the IRA because they felt they were fighting a war for freedom. They contributed towards the Irish freedom struggle. These people where American but of Irish origin, thus felt still Irish and felt the British occupation as illegal and felt the actions of the IRA, however brutal as the lesser of two evils. I'm not saying all Americas did it might have been just a few people, but they did exist.
There are Iraqi's that feel the invasion of Iraq is unjust and thus the terrorist attacks in Iraq are a good thing to them, as they are attacks on the invaders and their supporters. Now there might only be a few people that hold that view, but the insurgency proves that they exist. These people feel that terrorism is the lesser of two evils.
There are people that believe that attacking innocent Israeli citizens is just because the Israeli's are living a free life on the land of the Palestinians where their nation is built, whilst the native Palestinian population is forced to live in squalors and refugee camps. Some people feel that injustice justifies the evil of suicide bombing.
There are even people that feel that the random attacks that Al Qaeda carries out against the western world are justified as the western world is not neutral in its opinions and interests. People are deluded enough to believe that.
I have never supported the attacks of 9-11 or any other attack by Al Qaeda like the African bombings or the bail bombings. I was 16 when 9-11 occurred. Eye's just opened to this world, what a horrific and violent and scary world I saw. I remember watching the news, they claimed nearly 50,000 people had died, I was like wow! How can you kill that many people? The next thing I hear is that Osama Bin Laden is to blame and I’m like "who's this guy?", "why are they blaming him, the attack only happened a few hours ago!".
Then we had Afghanistan is going to be bombed and I was like "But why? that's like a little poor country, what have they done?!". Later on a I grew up to realise that intelligence new the attack was going to happen, they pretty much watched it happen, they have known of the threats for years but nobody has paid the correct attention to them. I can under no circumstances justify any of these attacks or see a reason for them.
I used to support suicide bombing as a young man. The first I was told of suicide bombing was by dad when he told us about the valour of the Pakistani army in 1965 when to halt an Indian army advance to Lahore they lay in mud covered with bombs like human landmines. It nearly made me cry. But then I saw the start of the 2nd intifada through very innocent eyes. I saw kids throwing rocks at tanks, I saw Israeli soldiers opening up on crowds, and I saw a young boy shot dead in his fathers arms. I was 16 when I saw all that.
I felt against that back drop that suicide bombings could be justified I saw them as one evil against another evil, then in 2003/4 there was a suicide bombing on a university in Israel, I had just started university myself, a young girl was killed, 1st year. It shook my world. It almost felt like I died. For the first time I felt the emotion of an Israeli citizen being killed. It was like, I go to university, imagine if I was killed, what I’d feel what I’d miss, what my family would feel, what my friends would feel, what her family and friends where feeling, I felt all that. Since then I cannot justify any attack on Israeli citizens even against soldiers as I have studied my religion and I feel war without a declaration is incorrect and cowardly and murder.
You know I don't support the war on attack, for one reason alone, the political vacuum I knew it'd leave behind. I have no sympathy for Saddam Hussein, however I feel that a people should deal with their own problems, and I feel that Iraqi's should have taken Iraq themselves. The Kurds managed to secure themselves autonomous zones, why did people like Muqtada al Sadr not take advantage of no fly zones etc and wage a war against saddam? I feel we have left a gaping hole that will be filled with idiots and not leaders.
But then I don't support any insurgency either. I feel that under saddam Iraq had no hope, if there was no security issues in Iraq there would be no need for western forces in Iraq, thus Iraq would finally be free to do what it likes, I feel the insurgents are occupying Iraq if anyone. I think it's time they accepted they lost the war, and got on with life.
Now here comes the confusing bit...
I do support terrorist activity in Kashmir against Indian armed forces and any collateral damage. I feel that they have occupied my people, my homeland my past, my ancestry for the last 58 years, every other Muslim in SE Asia got a choice in 1947, we didn't, we got India and Pakistan fighting. We want that choice, we want freedom, and we want to do whatever we like without a million soldiers in our state. I feel that during the current peace process any attacks would be wrong but in normal conditions I don't care. Nobody else will do anything; this brings them to the table at least. Why can't we have a roadmap for Kashmir? Why won't anyone help us? Why can't we have UN peace keepers rather than Indian and Pakistani soldiers? there is part of m though that tells me today even that what's wrong is wrong, and I acknowledge that suicide bombing, terrorist actions are wrong, but what can we do that is right, apart from continue to suffer?!
You see we can all sit and talk until it comes to our door. Imagine if Mexico invaded America (I know really dumb analogy), but imagine if they did, and they took over, would you not do anything to be free? I know I would.
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