After the 9/11 attacks, President Bush made several announcements in which he tried to advertise the rationale behind Al-Qaeda’s attack on American soil as their hatred for American freedoms and the barbarity of the bearded jihadists. No bigger lie exists in the post-World War II world. Osama bin Laden was fighting against the Soviets because he was fighting a war against the infidel invaders of a Muslim land. This was a jihad for which the Arabs came to Afghanistan not necessarily just to win but to die for. At the time Bin Laden was America’s favourite hero fighting the battle the CIA wanted him to fight.
Then came the 90s, Bin Laden turned against his own Saudi government because they allowed American soldiers to roam on Islam’s holy land. In the same decade, Bin Laden launched a jihad against the other occupier and invader of Muslim lands, more commonly known as the United States of America. Just as in the war against the Soviets, the jihad against the United States had the same very clear message: leave our lands.
This wasn’t about Bin Laden being jealous of the American freedom of speech or the right to bear arms. His anger toward the western world would have been called xenophobia if Bin Laden wore jeans and a hoodie and drank coffee in the morning while smoking Marlboro light short.
The hatred toward the immigrants in much of the western world, including in Australia even though geographically it is more eastern than any eastern nations with brown people in them, has the same driver if one really pays attention to their argument. Immigrants come here, bring their own way of life such as religion and clothing, they exploit the system to their benefit, and most importantly, they pollute our way of life. Bin Laden also had the same problem with the westerners: they bring their culture of getting naked, getting drunk, they do not respect the local traditions, and they are here to pollute the minds of the Muslim youth.
Bin Laden chose the violent way to address his concerns. But that is because his calls for change fell on deaf ears. In America, for example, the xenophobic tendencies find legal cover in many states and cities, where citizens find some satisfaction to see the state getting into action against the foreigners who refuse to wear jeans, smoke Marlboro, employ toilet paper instead of Muslim showers, and support Israel. They also refuse to adjust to and respect the local traditions.
Elon Musk sort of sits at the top of this battle between the whites anywhere versus the immigrants. Until recently, I confess that I did not have a clue that he was actually a Christian fundamentalist. I am only using the definition the Western society has used to describe Muslim men who had the same tendencies and thoughts about their own culture and Islamic traditions. Elon Musk wants to safeguard the whiteness and the Christian-ness of the Western society against the brown Muslim invaders who come to the West using the same visa system that he himself used while coming from South Africa.
Charlie Kirk was one such immoral, bigot, and evil of a man who was killed by an evil man one would have a difficult time telling from Charlie. Of course they are now elevating him to stardom and even equating him with Jesus Christ but he was nothing more than a hate preacher with a mic and camera. He passed sacrilegious remarks against Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him). May I have done similar to Jesus? No. As a Muslim, I cannot do that. I am required to respect Jesus. I guess that is the difference between us and them.
