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Culture of Life vs Culture of Death, by
Dr. Saman Shali
11.7.2005
Where Islam Stands |
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9/11 changed the lives
of everyone, in one way or other, not just the life
of Americans but of many people around the world.
That day turned into an official day for the start
of the fight against terrorism internationally. It
established a dividing line between two camps: the
camp of those committed to a Culture of Life and
those committed to a Culture of Death.
The American people sadly have been misunderstood
internationally. The rest of the world does not
understand why a firefighter climbs to the top of
the twin towers to save other people's lives while
endangering his own. |
Dr. Saman Shali
Photo: Kurd Net |
If we look back in history, the American Army went
to fight Nazi Germany during WWII to save Europe
from the Culture of Death manufactured by the
Germans against most of the European countries and
especially against the Jews. They did not go to
occupy Germany or Europe; on the contrary, they
installed a strong political system where the
culture of life has flourished since then. In such
an environment, political parties promote education,
economy, health, improved standards of living, and
research and development. Today we see these
European countries competing to be a champion of
human rights and fighting against the Culture of
Death and are part of the international community in
the war against terrorism. A similar thing happened
in Japan and Korean during WWII.
When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the Americans
led the world in forming one of the biggest
coalitions to stop Saddam from promoting the culture
of death as a way to intimidate neighboring
countries. The coalition freed Kuwait neither the
Americans nor any other country remained controlling
Kuwait. Today Kuwait is a free country where
democracy is gradually becoming the way the
government operates.
The Americans were welcomed by the Islamic countries
when they supported the Moslem freedom fighters
against the communists to liberate Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, when the Afghans got their victory,
Islamist extremist turned against America and the
country became a haven for terrorists until the US
and it allies librated Afghanistan. A democratic
government was installed and today Afghanistan is
reaping the fruit of freedom day by day.
The United States and its allies decided to free the
Iraqi people from a brutal regime. By now it is
clear to all that the coalition’s goal is to install
a free democratic government with a strong political
system that believes in and respects human rights,
democracy, freedom and promote the culture of life,
much like what happened in Europe, Japan, Korea,
Afghanistan and Kuwait.
One can ask why Americans went to all these wars,
although none of these wars were against the US.
What can US gain from these wars? Does the US gain
any economical advantage by leading these wars and
endangering the lives of its citizens? What can the
US get out of these wars but lose more and more of
its heroes and create disrespect of Americans
especially in the Islamic countries? The only
satisfaction that US could get from these wars was
to lead the world fight against a Culture of Death
while it implements the principle of democracy,
freedom, respect of human rights and culture of
life. This is what the world is beginning to notice.
The Islamic countries did not act when in the name
of Islam many crimes were committed such as the
gassing of the Kurds and Iranians by Saddam's outlaw
regime. They did not act and indeed not even utter a
word of condemnation, when the infamous Al-Anfal
operations against the Kurds resulted in the
disappearance of more than 180,000 Kurds. The crimes
of Saddam’s government filled mass graves with the
Kurds and Shiites. Similar crimes in Afghanistan,
Sudan, and Asia were equally ignored. One wonders
why these countries kept their silence at a time
when all the International community was fighting
terrorism and condemning these crimes, while the
terrorists were using Islam to promote the Culture
of Death. Why did they not issue a single "fatwa"
forbidding killing Moslems and innocent civilians in
the name of Islam? The Holy War (Jihad) called by
profit Mohammed was to fight the nonbelievers to
worship the one God. Islam never used the Jihad
against the people of the Book (Christians and
Jews).
What drives those people to blow themselves up? Is
it anger, frustration, power, economic hardship,
religion, political gain, poor education or personal
glory that those reasons are being exploited by the
promoters of Culture of Death? To understand these
questions we have to look deeper and distinguish
between the two cultures, of death and of life. Only
then one could make the choice. The choice of any
thinking, caring, honest and truly believing Moslem
will clearly be to opt for the Culture of Life.
The world, for a time turned a blind eye and deaf
ear to what the Nazis did to the Jewish people and
to others in WWII, and when Cambodians killed
Cambodians and Africans killed Africans in Rwanda.
The world took action when it was too late to save
millions of lives. Is the world going to let the
same thing happen by letting the terrorists win the
war against the Culture of Life and humanity?
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