Friday September 2, 2005

I've Been Thinking:

Mohammad Sidique Khan's last will and testament ended up at al Jazerah TV.
They broadcast his words around the world. Most of us missed it.
Mohammad Sidique Khan was one of the July 7th London suicide bombers.

Khan wrote: "therefore we will talk to you in a language that you understand. Our words are dead until we give them blood."
He was trying to teach the West a lesson.
It is a lesson we already know.
It is a lesson the terrorists will never learn.

Khan confirmed what we all understand to be true: the language of the terrorists is blood and the language of the West is words.

The reality is that the West disagrees with the very premise of the terrorist.
The West heard the terrorist point of view and rejected it.
One of the greatest freedoms the West has is the ability to agree to disagree, while terrorists need everyone to conform to their point of view.
Terrorists murder in order to make their point and to force people to capitulate.

Khan inserted Zawahiri, bin Laden's # 2, in his video will.
He wanted to draw a connection: from Khan to al Qaeda and world terror.
Here is the real connection. All terrorists, from Khan to bin Laden, want to frighten the West into submission. But the West will not submit and that is something that terrorists, world over, do not understand. They never will.