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Very similar in mentality
In February 1998, Osama bin Laden issued an edict. "The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it, in order to liberate the Al Aqsa mosque [Jerusalem] and the Holy Mosque [Mecca]," he explained. "This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God... We call on every Muslim who believes in God and wished to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it."
Those haunting words were played out on September 11, 2001. In response to the horrors that befell thousands that day, US citizens of all beliefs decried Islamic fundamentalism and the terrorism it seems to nurture. A large segment unquestioningly supported President George W. Bush's war in Iraq, believing his assertion that Saddam
Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction posed an equally dire threat. Yet few imagined, despite any concerns about the Bush Administration's agenda, a day when the President would disclose: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East."
On June 27, 2003, with those precise words Bush put his previous and, most certainly, future actions into perspective.
The ramifications of that statement, and the marked deterioration of civil liberties and religious freedom in the US over the past few years, leads to a nagging question: Could the US slip into a fundamentalist mode paralleling those nations we currently deem the world's greatest threat? The events of 9/11 certainly have played into the hands of the Christian right. Citizens and government officials, unnerved by the looming threat of further attack, have permitted, even encouraged, this movement to flourish, further fusing God and Jesus with government, patriotism, and the warding off of Islamic fundamentalist evils.
God's Warrior Twins Christian & Islamic Fundamentalism have a lot in common
In February 1998, Osama bin Laden issued an edict. "The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it, in order to liberate the Al Aqsa mosque [Jerusalem] and the Holy Mosque [Mecca]," he explained. "This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God... We call on every Muslim who believes in God and wished to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it."
Those haunting words were played out on September 11, 2001. In response to the horrors that befell thousands that day, US citizens of all beliefs decried Islamic fundamentalism and the terrorism it seems to nurture. A large segment unquestioningly supported President George W. Bush's war in Iraq, believing his assertion that Saddam
Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction posed an equally dire threat. Yet few imagined, despite any concerns about the Bush Administration's agenda, a day when the President would disclose: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East."
On June 27, 2003, with those precise words Bush put his previous and, most certainly, future actions into perspective.
The ramifications of that statement, and the marked deterioration of civil liberties and religious freedom in the US over the past few years, leads to a nagging question: Could the US slip into a fundamentalist mode paralleling those nations we currently deem the world's greatest threat? The events of 9/11 certainly have played into the hands of the Christian right. Citizens and government officials, unnerved by the looming threat of further attack, have permitted, even encouraged, this movement to flourish, further fusing God and Jesus with government, patriotism, and the warding off of Islamic fundamentalist evils.
God's Warrior Twins Christian & Islamic Fundamentalism have a lot in common