Reaction in Muslim World

We have long asked Muslims to take a stand against their extremist brthren. It is only appropriate we seek to hear their reactions to the death of Osama Bin Ladin. This from Indonesia.

Chairul Akbar, secretary general of the anti-terrorism agency in Indonesia — the world’s most populous Muslim nation and a frequent Al-Qaeda target — expressed jubilation about the news. Attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda-linked militants have killed more than 260 people in Indonesia, many of them foreign tourists.

“We welcome the death of one of the world’s most dangerous men and highly appreciate the United States’ help in crushing this global enemy,” he said. “He couldn’t be allowed to live. He helped spread a dangerous ideology all over the world, including in Indonesia.” Said Agil Siradj, chairman of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama, said Bin Laden’s death will help restore the image of Islam as one of people, not violence and radicalism.

http://arabnews.com/world/article379804.ece

There is plenty of opportunity to go directly to the ME news papers. The sense I get from doing so reflects a mixed bag of feelings. Some more the loss, other revel in his death because he brought so much negative attention to Islam. It is a matter of perspective and personal beliefs. The fact some Muslims speak out positively with regard to his death is quite astounding.

Bravo to those who were willing to speak out against this murderer.

It is nice that there is disagreement in the ME concerning the death of Bin Laden. Hopefully it will lead to a new direction of this archaic stone age religion.

I heard something interesting on the radio the other day about Osama Bin Laden's "worldview" and how it was gradually being rejected in the ME, especially among the young. The person interviewed had written a book about it and how the new generation of those wanting change in the ME rejected the idea, propounded by Bin Laden of a return to what he was as an Islamic "Golden Age", circa the sixth century. Younger people were responsible for the uprisings demanding change and democratic government in the middle east, and they reject this notion, wanting instead to move more into the modern world.

I wonder if now that he is dead if his dangerous vision of a forceful return to a fundamentalist Islamic world will fade even faster. According to the author, the winds of change were already blowing against him and his radical views. although we've been so busy "fighting terror" as though it was going to be a permanent condition that we may not have noticed that support for his views was on the wane.

AspenValley wrote: I heard something interesting on the radio the other day about Osama Bin Laden's "worldview" and how it was gradually being rejected in the ME, especially among the young. The person interviewed had written a book about it and how the new generation of those wanting change in the ME rejected the idea, propounded by Bin Laden of a return to what he was as an Islamic "Golden Age", circa the sixth century. Younger people were responsible for the uprisings demanding change and democratic government in the middle east, and they reject this notion, wanting instead to move more into the modern world.

I wonder if now that he is dead if his dangerous vision of a forceful return to a fundamentalist Islamic world will fade even faster. According to the author, the winds of change were already blowing against him and his radical views. although we've been so busy "fighting terror" as though it was going to be a permanent condition that we may not have noticed that support for his views was on the wane.

He might have found out that virgins are hard to come by in the modern world!

It's day two and he has yet to rise from the sea....darn, he's fish food for sure!

Although it pains me to say it, "Good one, BM!"

We actually agree on something.

Major:

Is that your daughter? Lovely lady.