Author: David Barkin (async61.nyct.net)
Date: 09-17-2001 20:26
Hello Saif
I just want to add a few words to what I said to you previously. A few years ago these same people blew up the US embassy in Kenya. They killed 12 Americans. An extremist could argue that this was a valid target. People in that embassy knew their danger however unjustified it was. But who else died? Over 200 hundred Kenyans died. What was their crime? Who could snuff out the lives of so many people so casually, without remorse?
These madmen care nothing about Palestinian rights or anything else, no matter what they say. They live and have become abstractions. As long as one single enemy died they would put the whole world to flames. It means nothing to me when people talk about crimes of the US. It has nothing to do with this. I donÕt want to cut off legitimate discussion, but it has nothing to do with this.
IÕm sorry Saif but to much rhetoric from parts of the Islamic world has more to do with this then any actions of the US.
I am not a Muslim, but IÕve read the Koran. There is nothing, nothing in the Koran that justifies such acts. There is nothing in anyoneÕs holy book that justifies, or even argues for such acts.
I have no doubt that there are many out there sharpening their political knives to make hay out of this crime - It doesnÕt matter to me, it matters only what my country does now...
After the blast
The night is rent by the smell of police sirens
and the stench of death
fills the mind.
Oh why did these people die?
What was their sin?
Some were good, some bad,
most were just people trying their best to survive.
-To live righteously in a world
that dislikes the righteous.
I mourn for you, my brothers and sisters.
Murdered by the stupid evil.
History punishes stupidity quicker then
it punishes evil
Let our deaths be given meaning
Let the retribution be just.
Let the retribution be just.
