I haven’t intended to write much here on politics, as this is primarly a musical blog, after all--but a major victory has been won. The world’s most wanted terrorist, responsible for the murder of thousands, has been taken out. Almost a decade after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden is dead. President Obama just made the official announcement.
Bin Laden was the spiritual leader of a most extreme expression of a sect (or rather, cult) that interprets Islamic teachings in an ultra-authoritarian, tyrannical manner. Among other, far worse things, they oppose playing, singing and listening and dancing to music, especially by women. They also brutally oppose Sufis, Shi’as, more liberal Sunnis and the many others they consider heretics, apostates and infidels because their beliefs aren’t like theirs.
Of course, al-Qaeda is still around, the new top man in the organization, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is still on the lam, and there will always be terrorism. But a victory is a victory. Let’s not celebrate that a man has been killed (though one who definitely had it coming), but that justice has been done, and the world is a little bit safer now.
And let’s never forget the victims of all the attacks, and never forget to thank the troops for a job well done. The credit is theirs. Hopefully we can bring them all home sooner.
Bin Laden was the spiritual leader of a most extreme expression of a sect (or rather, cult) that interprets Islamic teachings in an ultra-authoritarian, tyrannical manner. Among other, far worse things, they oppose playing, singing and listening and dancing to music, especially by women. They also brutally oppose Sufis, Shi’as, more liberal Sunnis and the many others they consider heretics, apostates and infidels because their beliefs aren’t like theirs.
Of course, al-Qaeda is still around, the new top man in the organization, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is still on the lam, and there will always be terrorism. But a victory is a victory. Let’s not celebrate that a man has been killed (though one who definitely had it coming), but that justice has been done, and the world is a little bit safer now.
And let’s never forget the victims of all the attacks, and never forget to thank the troops for a job well done. The credit is theirs. Hopefully we can bring them all home sooner.
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