Searing Passions Of The Mind
So nice to know that the man whose transfixing hatred of the West spawned the growth of a worldwide terror network is really a nice fellow, held in high esteem by those who recognize his sterling qualities. Just a regular guy.A trifle fixated on mass murder to prove his point, but that can be forgiven in light of the fact that he has chosen to enlighten the world of underground Islam to the task before them, in dedication to the sacred awe in which the memory of the Prophet is held, for in so doing, they are but emulating his historical example.
An interview with a former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, which took place in Sanaa, Yemen, published in The Daily Telegraph informs that Mr. bin Laden is a man of grave discipline, a dedicated mastermind of episodic violence on a grand level, displaying his commitment to overturning the catastrophic rise of Western values in the uncompromisingly stern world of Islamic values.
He has taken grave umbrage at the way the world has turned in its evolving from one of adherence to the divine order sent down from on high to establish among God's creatures immutable values and distinct and inviolable obligations to fulfill the requirements of man's worship of the Almighty.
He sees before him a world of detachment, of secularism, of nihilism, of disregard for the sacred, and embrace of the trifling entrancements of free markets, capitalism, godlessness. He has become infuriated at the spectacle of ongoing collusion between the rulers of Muslim countries in fulfilling the needs of the West, while lining their own pockets, and ignoring the needs of their populace.
An historical Ango-French colonial alliance to take the fullest advantage of oil-endowed geographies in the Middle East, resulting over time in American imperialist designs on the fossilized riches of the geography which has enabled Europe and North America to prosper and advance, while leaving the community of Arab nations to wallow in their social and economic backwardness, did nothing to endear the West to Mr. bin Laden.
His family's great wealth was spent, along with that of the reigning aristocracy of Saudi Arabia, on self-endowment, lives of superfluous excess. And just incidentally funding an extreme brand of Wahhabist Islam, felicitously engineering piously committed future fodder for terror in the name of freeing Islam from benighted Western influence.
Trouble was, Mr. bin Laden was no more a friend of the ruling Saudis than of the West, deriding them as a corrupt tandem of iniquity.
There is nothing quite like the fiery fervour of religious ideological zeal to entice the brainwashed, the societally outcast, the grievers, those convinced they've been horribly victimized, to join in mutual dedication to the passion of their vision of justice. Their volatile and fanatical focus on the enemies of Islam, their determination to battle these adversarial infidels in the name of all that they hold as holy, is unstoppable.
The nervous energy of dedicating one's life for a higher purpose in the knowledge that the Creator demands nothing less spurs fanatics on to demand the ultimate sacrifice of themselves. "The thing I remember most about the Sheik is that he was very, very active. From the start of the day, before dawn when he began his prayers, to late at night, he was always doing something, never resting.
"We were not living in a comfortable environment, but that did not stop him for all the time working, thinking and planning. After prayers came administration and after administration came meetings with distinguished visitors, sometimes secret visitors, but all day he never stopped." How could he? He was goaded by God. His was the will and the duty to do the will of God.
"From the moment I knew him, he was thinking all the time about extending the war everywhere. He would always say we must hit America on a front that it never expects. He kept saying he wanted to fight America on a battlefield it cannot control." No sooner said than done. Serendipitously, too; for it was not exactly Osama bin Laden's doing that America invaded Iraq.
And now there they are, engaged in battle, on a battlefield they cannot control.
Labels: Political Realities, Religion, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, March 27, 2008
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