Buh-Bye, Bin Laden: The Muslim World Reacts

After some of America’s Best and Brightest, United States Seal Team 6, completed with extreme prejudice their mission against the Muslim Monster, Osama bin Laden, I was wondering what the Muslim World thought about the mission, its results, and the President of the United States who ordered it, Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him).

Some Arabs are mourning the mass murderer as a holy warrior and martyr, while others rightfully judge bin Laden as “pillar of evil” whose Holy Jihad against The Great Satan brought about a firestorm of hard feelings against Muslims throughout the world.

The death of the world’s best known Islamic Terrorist has illuminated the deep divide between subjects and rulers, radicals and moderates throughout the Muslim World.

The Palestinian Authority, embraced by Obama’s Administration, said that bin Laden’s killing was “good for the cause of peace.” Hamas, long known to be an Islamic beehive of Terrorist activity, is literally up in arms over the assassination of bin Laden.

Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Hamas administration in Gaza, proclaimed:

We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood.

Believe it or not,  Hamas is currently being challenged by al Qaeda-inspired groups that consider it too moderate.

The Muslims who believed bin Laden was a prophet of Allah, are having problems dealing with the fact that he’s gone. Other Muslims feel that he had it coming.

There are others who are claiming that the Islamic Revolution going on in the Mid-East is far more important that the killing of bin Laden in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan.

Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch in Beirut does not seem too torn up by the whole thing:

Bin Laden is just a bad memory. The region has moved way beyond that, with massive broad-based upheavals that are game-changers.

There are those Muslims who think that bin Laden and al Qaeda brought catastrophe on the Muslim world with the attack on the Uniteds States as the U.S. hit back with two wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the word “Islam” became forever intertwined with “terrorism.”

Mahmoud Sabbagh, a Saudi, on Twitter:

The damage bin Laden had caused Islam is beyond appalling and a collective shame.

Ahmed Saleh, a 58-year-old retired Palestinian, said:

The world is better without bin Laden. It has removed a pillar of evil from the world. His heinous actions were exploited to allow hostile policies toward the Arabs and Muslims.

Other Muslims think that Osama was justified in his murder of 3,000 innocents on September 11th, 2001.

According to Egyptian Abdullah Ali, a Salafist taxi driver in his 60s:

Bin Laden defended the dignity of Muslims and now the U.S. and the West will answer for their occupation.

Abdel-Qader Abu Shaaban, a 53-year-old Palestinian from Gaza, described bin Laden’s killing as “a very criminal act.”

Tareq al-Zumar of Egypt’s Islamist group al-Gama’a al-Islamiya, which took up arms against the state in the 1990s said:

Bin Laden will become a symbol of resistance to occupation… The U.S. killing of bin Laden will undoubtedly galvanize reaction and retaliation attempts.

Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia are grieving bin Laden. One man taking a cigarette break outside his office in Riyadh, said:

He would be a loss to all Muslims because he had good qualities. He portrayed Muslims in a good and strong way… He is the person that left the worldly riches for jihad.

No doubt these Muslims remember their joyous celebration upon hearing the news of the attack on September 11th, 2001:

So, what does the Muslim World think about their “son”,  President Barack Hussein Obama, who addressed them on June 4, 2009, at the University of Cairo, where he said:

As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities — (applause) — it was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. (Applause.)

I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President, John Adams, wrote, “The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.” And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, they have served in our government, they have stood for civil rights, they have started businesses, they have taught at our universities, they’ve excelled in our sports arenas, they’ve won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers — Thomas Jefferson — kept in his personal library. (Applause.)

So far, the silence is deafening.

5 thoughts on “Buh-Bye, Bin Laden: The Muslim World Reacts

  1. Badger40's avatar Badger40

    LOL Thomas Jefferson’s Koran.
    Jefferson had a very low opinion of muslims in general.
    The founding fathers for the most part were under no spell when it concerned them.
    They would have the same opinions of them to this day.
    I am confident that they would have recognized that we really are at was with islam.
    And it is bcs they have declared it.

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