Straight to Hell
Posted : November 16, 2005 at 3:01 pm [America/Los_Angeles]
Suicide bombing is an abomination. It is sick. You cannot build a healthy state from suicide bombers. Imagine what your national museum would look like: “Here’s Ahmed - he blew up 52 Muslims at a wedding.” “Here’s Muhammad - he blew up 25 Shiites at a funeral.”…The Sunni world would do well to reread the famous words by the Rev. Martin Niemöller, a German pastor imprisoned in World War II: “First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.” A civilization that does not delegitimize suicide bombing against any innocent civilian is itself committing suicide. And that is exactly what the Sunni Muslim world is doing when it does not consistently teach its children that suicide bombing against civilians is always wrong - and that all who engage in it do not go to heaven, but straight to hell.
— Thomas Friedman, ‘Why Us?’ Sunni Arabs Should Ask, ‘Why Anyone?’
- Anand
Category: US