Laden was a HERO


 I will be the last person to call Osama bin Laden a terrorist. I had strongly condemned the 9/11 incidents, and I do so today as well, but the US has failed to provide evidence of Bin Laden or Al Qaeda’s involvement. Bin Laden has died a martyr’s death.


Muslims are not enemies of the Americans, but Washington has been employing brutal tactics against Muslims in many parts of the world. Like Israel and India, it is involved in gross violation of human rights and unleashing state terrorism. As somebody has rightly asked, if everyone was so clever and knew where Bin Laden was since August 2010, how to explain so many drone attacks inside the Pakistani territory all these months which claimed hundreds of innocent lives.


So who is the terrorist? And who is the victim? People in Afghanistan, Iraq and parts of Pakistan are being humiliated and killed, their properties vandalised and resources robbed in the name of war on terror, or other pretexts. Saddam Hussein was attacked on the pretext that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Nothing was farther from the truth, and the world has acknowledged this.


Why has Libya been pushed to the wall, and by whom? If Col. Muammar Gaddafi is a tyrant, what had his innocent grandchildren done? Why were they killed? I don’t support Col. Gaddafi’s policies. But why do Muslims continue to be killed on a daily basis in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere? To put it in plain words, the US is at war with Muslims and Islam, and is doing everything in its authority to hurt the interests of all Muslim nations because Washington perceives them as the biggest threat to its imperialistic designs.


I conscientiously believe Bin Laden was a symbol of heroism and a fighter against US imperialism and aggression. He has died a martyr’s death. The resistance movement will not end with his embracing shahadah (martyrdom). Rather, this will give impetus to what you call “extremism” but I say is a valiant refusal to go along with America’s policies and actions vis-à-vis the Islamic world and other oppressed nations. Bin Laden’s killing is not the defeat of the resolve he upheld in his lifetime.


More and more Bin Ladens will rise from the ashes in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, unless the US and its allies renounce treating Muslims despicably, and stop plundering their resources and thrusting stooges on them to overwhelm their political system.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Kashmir's pre-eminent pro-Pakistan leader, is chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat

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