Ill society cannot defeat enemy, one
year later
I wrote this
article on September 2001 after the attack on WTC, one year latter I found that
the article was correct in the perception of USA goal… original article at the end…
September 11 was a crime that led to serial of crimes
By: Mohamed Kamel
Sep 11, 2002
What happened
in September 11 was a real crime, and by all definitions each crime should be
followed by an investigation to determine who did the crime. Investigation and
sentencing should be done through a due process where the law enforcement would
sentence the criminals. This should be achieved through the law of the land as
per the democratic procedure and the democratic approach for the modern
society. We never new in the modern society of sentencing without evidence or
hearing, and we never knew of the revenge approach in the modern history and
specially in the so called modern society.
But what is
happening completely opposite to the logic and the due process, the government
of the seen of the crime decided to accuse group of people and announce the
judgment and keep punching them on daily basses for undefined period of time.
This government claiming that they have there own source of information, which
source that became unreliable because of failing to predict any possibility of
attack and because the frailer of the entire security system.
What happened
in September 11 was a real crime, and what happened following the crime is an
additional crime that we hope that no body would decide in the future to follow
USA government and take the justice on there own hand following the revenge
approach.
The opposite
crime has stronger impact than the September 11 attack; the media propaganda of
the crime itself create scary environment all over the world accusing all
Muslims and Arab of wrong doing, bad faith, killer, barbaric attitude, and miss
used all religious and culture samples. The extreme media never learned, or it
is intentionally orchestrated and misled the population.
Talking about
anniversaries, let us not forget there are many unpunished crimes to be
remembered in any of the 364 remaining days of any given year. Do the world
will commemorate another sad crimes:
- February 14, 1991; 1, 172
civilians burnt alive by a US Air Force smart bomb in Al-Amiriya Shelter,
Iraq
- December 20, 1989; 3, 500
civilians killed by the US invasion army in El Chorrillo neighborhood ,
Panama
- September 16, 1982; Score of
Palestinian "civilian refuges" been massacred by the Israeli
army in Sabra and Shatila, Lebanon
(The massacres for which Ariel
Sharon, the current Prime Minister of Israel, was found to be -- and by an
Israeli Commission -- "personally responsible" (see:
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/kahan.html )
In addition
to main crimes that taking place for long time:
- In the early 80th USA
government decide to attack Guatemala and they did in spite the
condemnation of all entire world, how many died and what was the impact,
who punish them?
- In the late 90th Israeli army
did attack Palestinian refuges Camp under UN supervision (Quana) in
Lebanon, under the command of Shimon Perez, UN report accused them of
intentional murder, how many died and what was the impact, who punish
them?
- Through all the 90th and up to
date USA and Britain army are joining attacks on Iraqi people, how many
died and what was the impact, is any body thinking of punishing them, or
just stop them? They still preparing for another war in civilization.
- Through the 90th the entire
world watched the murdering of the thousands of Muslim in Yugoslavia and
after the Serb finished the job, USA decided to attack the Serb people,
and demolish all the country, did any body punish any of them?
- For more then fifty years there
were people been massacre every single day and there were no justice been
served or even approached for them, who would punish the criminals who are
killing the Palestinian people every single day by the American weapons of
mass destruction.
The size of
September 11 crime was very huge, but punching without due process is a bigger
crime and punching one criminal is another crime. This so called war on
terrorism is nothing but war on all man kind civilization.
September 11
was a crime that led to serial of crimes.
Mohamed S. Kamel
Freelance writer, Montréal, Canada
=================
A year ago
Ill society cannot defeat enemy
By: Mohamed S. Kamel
Sep 15, 2001
We are still in the
first shock of what has happened on Tuesday September 11th, 2001 in
NY and Washington, we still cannot be sure if that was a science fiction movie
or if it was reality. This date is the beginning of a new era, a date where a
line will be forever drawn between what we were before and what we will become
after September11th, 2001.
Our heart is going out
to those who lost their peace, to those who lost their lives, to those who lost
close family members and friends. Our heart is going out to those who lost a
father, a mother, or a child
and we offer our prayers to those who died and to those who survived this
terrible attack.
We are the first to
feel this pain, because we have been living with it for a number of years, we
have been suffering throughout modern history from lack of peace, from
injustice and unfairness. Those who have relatives in any place across the
ocean would know more about what this terror means, which in no way minimize
our pain of this horrific attack, but it is simply to underline our
understanding of this pain.
This attack showed the
face of every body not as per the media, but as per the people practicing in
the street. We the Muslim have been treated for a long time unfairly by the
media, and many of the media outlets remains to date committed to the racist behavior toward the
Muslim and Arab citizen while neglecting the fact that we are citizens of this
land with full citizenship's rights and obligations.
When a society is proud
of being civilized, many of its media outlet spread hate and some of the
population practice this hate, that means this society is ill and could not
defeat any enemy, this
society can only create enemies. We never point our fingers to the majority of
society whom are Catholic in every attack on the protestant in Northern Ireland
and vise versa. Likewise, we never point our fingers to every Jew in our
society for every single attack against our grass roots families in each Arabic
country especially Palestine. Why finger pointing us when an attack has occurred even before having any evidence, is this
real? Is this another Oklahoma? Why we have to be treated as foreigners?
We have been treated
unfairly over the years and even more so in this grieving attack. Our point of
view never been presented and
all of us are considered as suspects even from some of our close neighbors,
that is, classmates, colleagues, and
co-workers. Not only our feelings never been presented
but also sometimes, we are presented as the enemy of civilized society. What
humiliation this is!
That is why the Muslim
community of Montreal has decided to publish this special edition of our
community paper and we hope that this edition could act as a wake up call, to
all of us to be ready to defeat our enemy, whom will never be defeated unless
we defeat the one that is living inside us.
From day one, all and
any Arabic name on the plane has been considered as suspect, that is as if
there is no single person carrying an Arabic name could travel for any reason
but hijacking a plane, and when people from other origins were questioned,
there is no mention about it in the media.
Let us be clear, under
no circumstances would we support the attack against NY and Washington on September
11th, 2001, and under no circumstances would we support any act of
terror against any innocent civilians.
All of us saw this
horrific attack, we witnessed many of the reports from the media around the
world covering the events in NY, but did we try to see with fairness what is
going in the world around us? If we ask ourselves this question fairly and with
an open mind, the answer is supposed to be no! The simplest answer for this
question is because every single one of us usually likes to see what happened
from his perspective and that is why the world is full of Wars, hate, and
crimes.
When there is a crime, someone is directly
benefiting from such a crime. In addition, the precision of this horrific act point out to a highly
sophisticated and resourceful mastermind that even the direct tools used to
implement this evil plan may be unaware of.
Arabs and Muslims cannot benefit from such an
act and do not have the resources and sophistication needed for its planning
and implementation.
To scapegoat the
Palestinians, the Arabs, the Muslims as an easy target will not solve the
problem even if some or all of the direct perpetrators were Arabs or Muslims.
No one in the North American media mentioned anything of what been reported in
other media concerning other possible scenarios that may exclude Arabs or
Muslims.
We all will benefit from this war against terrorism and
injustice- we know injustice is not part of the banner of Mr. Bush- but we
should understand that there is no way we can end the terrorism without
applying justice. That is why Great Britain has not been able so far to stop
the hostility in Northern Ireland or uproot the Irish Republican Army in 30
years.
All of us are ready to defend the right of life and the way
to live; we are ready to be
part of this long struggle against a real enemy.
To build a real globally safe society, we have to build it with fairness
politically and economically and we have to bring to justice all who did or
will terrorize any people.
Ill society cannot
defeat enemy, ill society can only create
enemies