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May 20, 2004
We's gonna kill us some heathens!
I try not to comment much on this terrorism business. I prefer to leave that to other people, because I try to view other points of view. Trying to see the points of view from those that want me dead is quite hard, so I forget about it. I probably shouldn't. I like to think that it is some crazy organization that wants me dead, and rather not a whole people or religion. I still believe this.
This above article is sickening. It's some of the worst kind of us vs them shit I've seen since Bush mad that speech two and a half years ago. Unless I am misinterpreting the article Al-Qaeda says that because we don't support Al-Qaeda, we are against them and must be destroyed. It brings to mind images of Hatfields and McCoys who simply want to kill for the sake of killing. Zaynab Khadr, daughter of the Canadian Al-Qaeda terrorist killed in action and brother of the wounded boy had this to say:
| "We're not al-Qaeda," she said yesterday in her first interview since the family set off a public outcry in Canada with its pro-al-Qaeda comments. "We respect them, we've had some interactions with them, we disagreed with them and we just wanted to go to live along side-by-side helping each other in whatever way we can." |
I suppose I could say the same thing. I might respect Al-Qaeda, or Timothy McVeigh, for that matter. I might have had interactions with them, but it's technically true: I'm not Al-Qaeda, and I didn't do anything. However, if I say that I am going to help any way I can, and everyone knows that I believe in bullshit martyrdom, and that non-Muslims should convert or die, then it shouldn't be a surprise if people want me out of the country for being a terrorist because, well, that's pretty much what you are.
Anyway, Ray at Canadian Political Observation dissects Khadr very well, and I have nothing to add here, although I may be keeping a closer eye on all this stuff now.
Posted by JonasParker at May 20, 2004 11:01 AM
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