Pet-Loving Murderers
Human beings are so perversely troubled in their psychological make-up. People nurse their grudging hatreds to a fine point of white-hot rage that can only be assuaged with violent acts to destroy those whom they resent to distraction. And they inform themselves that those they plan to kill are deserving of death. They can find illogical but to them acceptable reasons to support their belief that they are entitled to kill others, particularly if they're fanatics whose belief in a higher order whom they believe instructs them to be murderers gives them the affirmation they desire.A young man accompanies his parents, migrating as refugees from Pakistan to the United States. The young man is exposed to American values, the American way of life. He attends high school and graduates. And then he returns to Pakistan. Where hatred of the West, and particularly of the United States is endemic. And where training camps for terrorists are sprinkled liberally all over the remote areas of the country. Better yet, those terror training camps have connections to the military, to the secret service.
And this young man, let's say his name is Majid Khan, because that sounds quite Pakistani in origin, begins to plot with another equally dedicated to terrorism, believing such acts to be performing the will of god. So Majid Khan and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed get together and begin orchestrating some fairly spectacular acts of terrorism. Resulting in the deaths of over three thousand Americans. Their exploits in designing these attacks, paying meticulous attention to details, helping to train others, mark them as exceptionally loyal to their faith.
Theirs is a holy mission and they are wholly committed to its success.
But after the shock and trauma of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and the downed plane in Pennsylvania en route to Washington, Majid Khan was arrested. He pleaded guilty to aiding al-Qaeda, and made a bargain with U.S. prosecutors that he would be prepared to testify against other leading "high-value detainees" kept at Guantanamo Bay on an U.S. air base in Cuba. Another of those high-value detainees appears to be resentful of Majid Khan because, although kept closely confined, he has been favoured.
He is known to have with him a pet cat. Pets are forbidden at Guantanamo Bay prison. Strict prison protocol must be observed. Those who have been accused to terrorism may have a soft spot for companion animals to ease and comfort their isolation, but this ease and comfort is not acknowledged; it resembles a reward, however remote, for those who deserve punishment, not rewards. Evidently the prison area is overrun with iguanas and banana rats; this is Cuba, after all. And there are feral cats aplenty.
Plan the deaths of thousands of people in spectacular, unexpected suicide missions guaranteed to take with them along with the shaheed - happy enough to ascend to Paradise where he will be greeted as a glorious jihadist worthy of the attention of countless virgins in reward for sending off countless innocents to their deaths - those deserving to die, in anticipation of that reward, but not to languish as a prisoner in a cell.
When that happens, and isolated imprisonment is your due, then minuscule awards in compensation for agreeing to relate to the accursed authorities of a religion whose presence is a defilement of the holiness and purity of Islam becomes agreeable, and the acquisition of a pet of one's own to share the ignominy of isolation and loss of freedom will do, in a pinch.
Labels: Justice, Psychopathy, Security, Terrorism, United States
posted by Pieface @ Monday, August 20, 2012
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