I felt that Osama wasn't as evil as portrayed and that there had to be a reason behind the terrorist attacks. I was right! According to Wikipedia, Osama's motives were mostly, if not purely, religious. Al Queda's goal, in fact, is to uplift the wrod of God and to make His religious victorious. He had this whole plan to lure them into war and this would eventually lead to their economic downfall. It worked against the Soviet Union and almost worked against America. There military budget this year is $708B, and they had to cut their education budget to do so. I'll tell you the condensed version!
First of all, these people in the Middle East believe in Jihad, which means struggle. This is seen as a religious duty. America first got involved with Afghanistan when the Soviet War was taking place. They funded the war and provided weapons while Osama and other men trained the volunteer fighters. They eventually drove the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan, but America settled in. The people wanted America out as well because they were on sacred land, and they felt that the American soldiers' presence on the land was disgraceful. That's how the war began to drive them off the land.
Have you ever wondered why 9/11 happened?
The idea came from an attack funded by the Americans in Lebanon. America was involved in the destruction of towers in Lebanon. Osama saw this, and got the idea to destroy the towers in America to "give them a taste of what it feels like".
Presently, America is in Afghanistan killing innocent people, but that's not what the media recognizes. They concentrate on the one event that happened in 2001 while there presence in Afghanistan is doing worse every day. There's a "kill team" in the army that kill for sport and keeps fingers and skulls for souvenirs. The use of uranium and other toxic chemicals is causing horrific increases in the number of birth defects in Fallujah, which a village in Iraq. General Stanley McChrystal admits that innocents have been shot and killed at checkpoints.
These crimes don't only take place in Afghanistan, in Jackson, Florida a mosque (Muslim place of worship) was bombed. One was burned down in Tennessee, and a man urinated in one in Queens, New York. There are many more, but the blog is not long enough. You can check out morallowground.com for more information.
Well, I made it Babz Business, and now it's up to you, what you'll do with it! Take it as knowledge, continue to rejoice over Osama's death, or you could think about life!
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