Malek's Moorish tales - Terror has no citizenship, no religion, no land ... and should be fought by all !

	Friday, March 12, 2004

Terror has no citizenship, no religion, no land ... and should be fought by all !

What happened yesterday in Madrid was terrible, and I feel the same I felt when there were terrorist attacks in Casablanca, New York and Washington, Istambul, ...etc. While the sorrow is the same, I found it ridiculous when the media started discussing who did it, and commented on the possibility of it being an "Al Qaeda" attack as being a "retalliation" for the war in Iraq... Some even went to discuss whether Spain had ennemis in the Arabic or Islamic world...

I don't care if it was ben laden and his psychopaths that did it, or if it is the criminals of ETA ... Those guys have killed innocent civilians, and that is not what an "ennemi" does. It is, however, exactely what criminals and psychopaths do... I don't care what nationality were the people that were killed or hurt, I only need to know they are innocent civilians taking the subway to work, walking in the streets. I feel the same when israelis are hurt while on a bus or in a coffe shop, when palestians die at home because someone who is targeted by the israeli army lives next door or was driving on the street near by, when Turkish people are hurt while walking by a bank, Australians while sunbathing in a beach resort, Americans while at work, Moroccans while they are entering a Hotel, ...etc.

This doesn't mean I agree with what politicians and militaries around the world are doing. I believe that zionism is bad (the same way any movement that bases itself on ethnicity or religion is bad), that the actual American government is totally wrong in what it is doing around the world (it is not democratic by any criteria to decide what the whole world should do and be elected by a single part of the world. That divides the people of the world and highers hatred between nations). I believe that the British, the Spanish and Italian governments were wrong in their support of Bush for the war in Iraq, and that at the same time Saddam Hussein needed to be ousted, but the way it was done was wrong (Saddam should either have ousted by his people, or by the whole world). But I fail to see any realtion between whatever is done wrong by those politicians and the terrorists acts. I believe that humans are, in their majority, good people. I also believe that that is true of the majority of any single group of people, whether we look at geaographies, religions, ethinicity or whatever other criterium. The small groups of mentally insane people (whether they are politicians, activists or criminals) should very simply be fought by peaceful means, and the goodness of the majorities will always win in the end.

Those who try to "put these acts into context" have better start thinking what all this means... Terror is terror, no matter what motivates it, and nice people don't kill innocent ones... No religion tolerates this, and no land wants it... We should all fight it, starting by not being silent, and by not tolerating anybody advocating any form of violence, be it for political, "patriotic", or religious excuses...

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3/12/2004 6:36:44 PM UTC

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