It is certain that justice, which does not exist in Iraq, will not find you in the hole where you are hiding. Where do you think you will run to and be saved from the curses of grieving mothers and tearful orphans? Can't you see the holes into which Allah's justice will put you?
To Those who Relate Islam to Beheadings…
How can you regard beheadings as suitable for the Ummah of the Prophet, who suggested a woman would go to hell because she deliberately stopped giving water to her cat? Humanity finds its source and inspiration in Islam. How can you consider people who are inhumane as Islamic? Can a Muslim's action be Islamic if it makes other Muslims think that "there could be some other people behind this? And what about the hadith, "A Muslim is a person who is secure among Muslims?"
To Those who Think Extortion is Part of War…
The Iraqi people's decision to fight for their independence is a chivalrous decision. Doesn't it put the Iraqis into the same category as the Abu Ghraib nuts, by their not caring about human dignity while implementing this chivalrous decision? You forget the virtues of Omar Muhtar as if "they are not our teachers!" How can your principle of "just war" divide the world between "us and them?" Being oppressed does not justify oppressing others. The expression, "we can only make our voices heard this way," is a big lie. Your sound is the sound of those who cannot cope with their fear of death despite the killer intinct they possess. You should not think that you are delivering your enemy the message, "we can be worse than you are." Because they do not see you as enemies that should be annihilated but as "products" that should be multiplied.
To Those who Fail to See Bordeless Cooperation…
Kidnappers kill breadwinners, whom they accuse of being collaborators. Carrying goods to the U.S. military is collaboration (so to say). Then where does this collaboration end? For example, is it not part of the global economic system to support the U.S. military? Is the fuel used in American tanks from Texas? Shall we put the mothers of American and British soldiers into the collaborators' category because they pray for their sons' lives? Then what about the beheaders who turn the war of independence into terrorism? Are they not the chief collaborators of the occupation and the leading actors by providing the legitimacy for the continuation of the occupation?
To Those who Go and Those who Send…
Should it have been the truckers who should have gone first? Where are the guardians of mercy, where is the virtue, where is the love, where is the tolerance, where is horizon and where is the Islamic attitude? Where is water for the Iraqis? Where are the medicines for the Iraqis? Where are the mobile hospitals for the Iraqi people? Should the missionaries have been allowed into this narrow area? Besides, the people we first sent were not the truckers. We first sent our own "escapees" to be their translators before they were beheaded. Where is the indignation in the Anatolian streets against what has been done? Where is the will to say to the occupiers, "you came and messed everything up." The hope of obtaining a negotiation date for possible European Union membership makes you travel back and forth between European capitals. Where are your efforts for the possibility of turning Iraq into an island of peace as soon as possible? The product of disharmony is between the greatness of the burden on the fugitives and the smallness of their will. Where are the people with greater will to shoulder this burden?
August 9, 2004
