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Assalamu alaikum,

Lets address today’s issue. By now we all know Osama Bin Laden has been killed by the elite force of the US. At least that’s what they want us to believe. No single shred of evidence has been made public. And the only evidence (his body) is dumped in the ocean, so we are told. The conspiracy machine is working at full speed. Numerous conspiracies are thrown on the internet. Some say it’s all a hoax, and Bin Laden ones again helped the US. Keep in mind that Obama has recently launched his reelection campaign, and what’s a better way to boost his popularity then taking down the archenemy? I bet none. But let’s say it all did happen. And I don’t mean happen like 9-11, no let’s say they did kill Bin Laden. How should the Muslim community respond?

News reached me of celebrating Muslims. Should we really celebrate someone’s loss? Is that ethical correct? How about the Islamic view on celebrating someone’s death. On one side we have celebrating Muslims and on the other side we have Muslims in grief. Those who celebrate his death support their happiness by claiming Bin Laden spread the wrong message manipulating the Hole Qur’an. As for the grieving Muslims they probably fear the (raising) influence of the US. Recently WikiLeaks revealed that the US financially supports the opposition in Syria. Yet another Arab country on the brink of civil war. Where the Arab League has great difficulties controlling their citizens, the leaders of the western world have a easy task. The mainstream is made to believe that Bin Laden was a fundamentalist a extremist and that he was the (biggest) enemy of democracy.

With no control we are headed to face another challenge; how should the Muslim world respond on the death of Bin Laden?

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read and hopefully respond to this.

Wa alaikum assalaam.

Kabir Ali.

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Wa 'alaikum salaam Kabir,

In your email I sensed a little doubt about the death of Usama Bin Laden. You talk about that it is something that the US wants us to believe. But the news has reached to us that he is dead and the prove of it is now in the ocean. So lets assume that he is dead and how should the muslim community respond and should his death be celebrated or mourned? It al depends on from which point of view you are looking at it. Osama bin Laden has been responsible for preaching hate and using terror. I think it would have been better that he was captured alive and put in trial for the crimes he had commited so that his victims also would have a chance to see him brought to justice.

As for your question how the muslim community should respond. Islam is against terror so I do believe that he (and others who use terror and agression) hijacked islam for their own benefit. Islam prohibits the killing of innocent people. Every single life is important in islam and if you kill it it is as if you killed a whole community.

I don't have any feelings about Osama bin Laden but I am not  or was not directly connected to the terror and hate he created. I can imagine that his victims are happy that he is gone. But there are also muslims happy that he is dead like the Pakistani people who dislike the fact that Americans are on their land and with Osama gone the American have to leave. Also that they now can work on changing their image that the West has about them: Supporters of terrorist.  I can't imagine that there are people mourning his death it must be a minority. And you have a group that isn't mourning but not happy how it went. America has a history of not giving people justice and this is anothor episode of that. It would have been much better if they captured him alive and put in trial and then got punished for his crimes then how it went now.

There is no unanimously answer for this because everybody has their own view on this matter. As far as my view on this I want to quote Martin Luther King Jr:

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that"

I hope this answers somewhat...

Regards,
The Daily Hijab