05/04/11: Reasons why Muslim Organizations Supported the President in the Bin Laden Case!

Reasons why Muslim Organizations Supported the President in the Bin Laden Case!

In a message to the media, Imam Elahi examined the positions of the American Muslim community regarding the destiny of Osama bin Laden. 

In today's issue, the Detroit News published a big portion of Imam Elahi's message!

Today's Detroit News...

       End of Bin Laden & the Lessons to learn!

The death of Osama Bin Laden on Sunday, May 1st in Pakistan was a

historic event for America, for American Muslims and the world.

American Muslims were the first community to thank President Obama for fulfilling his promise, bringing the leader of al-Qaeda to justice!

In addition to the pain and suffering that the September 11th terrorist attacks inflicted on the United States, Bin Laden's crimes had directly affected American Muslims and the Muslim world at large by hijacking Islam, a faith that is based on peace, tolerance and the belief in one God, one universe and one humanity.

Bin Laden, though never burned the Bible, he misrepresented Islam through his actions as much as Terry Jones misrepresents Christianity.

The Prophet Mohammad defined a Muslim as a person who never harms anyone with expressions or actions. He described attacks on innocent people, regardless of faith or race, an attack on all humankind.

We, as American Muslims, grieved for the loss of our fellow citizens on 9/11, and we paid a heavy price for that terrorist tragedy. Psychological terrorism called  Islamophobia, harassment against our community has spiked, intimidation at airports and immigration procedures has increased, our holy book, the Quran, is being burned, our Constitutional rights were violated and opposition to build Mosques gained more support.

Islam is an Abrahamic religion, whose commandments are based on heavenly revelations and human rationality. It is a religion of justice and compassion that considers all mankind as God's family, and the best of them are those who do good to benefit humanity, the one who goes to bed full, while he knows someone hungry the neighborhood has no faith in God.

From the beginning, we opposed the unislamic, inhuman Bin Laden's philosophy.

The death of Bin Laden is a relief for our nation's victims and their families, and a confirmation of the President's statement that "as a nation there is nothing we can't do". However the spontaneous celebrations may not meet Dr. King doctrine:

"I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy... Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."

Could Bin Laden be captured to answer the court questions and also his sea burial cause controversies and questions in the world?  Al-Qaeda never cared to bury its victims, yet to set a good example, protection of human dignity even after death matters.  Perhaps the best was to leave the decision of burial for his family!

We are encouraged to bury the dead bodies as soon as possible, its permissible to delay the burial for technical reasons. One reason for a faster speed in the burial procedure was hygienic, to avoid smelling and health problem and also show of respect. Nowadays, using refrigerators would protect the body from fast deterioration and bad smells.  

Our government needs to learn its lesson not to arm the wrong people as it armed and helped bin Laden and his groups in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.

Let's remember that Bin Laden was born and raised in Saudi Arabia. Fifteen of the 19 terrorists also came from Saudi Arabia and none of them were Afghani citizens. The Saudi money has been behind so much corruption and terrorism the Middle East.

The Saudi regime is helping the Bahrain regime to terrorize the doctors, nurses and patients in the hospitals, torturing pro democracy forces to death, destroying the places of worship and eliminating any voices for freedom and human rights. This is no different than what Bin Laden did and our government ignores that.

Let's pray that the Lord would direct the decisions of our policy makers to choose a path that serves the interests and the integrity of our nation and the world.

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