"Confronted with the gravity
and barbarity of terrorism, the best method to follow would be to hold all Muslims
in suspicion until the opposite can be proven."
Troubled Youth: Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab has been charged by the United States with attempting to blow up an aircraft which was enroute from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day.
Yesterday, Allah made sure that
the crime against passengers of an American aircraft arriving from Holland, in
which a terrorist wanted to kill people just because he differs with them ideologically
and religiously - didn't happen. This crime and others will give America good
reason to find several new ways of protecting itself and its people from the barbarity
of terrorism. Security and the preservation of life will trump human rights and
civil liberties.
If I were in the place of an
American decision maker, I would address the threat of airborne terrorism and
passenger safety by arranging special flights for Muslims only and setting up a
weekly schedule of aircraft that belong to Muslim countries, which would be permitted
to land in special areas of American airports. There, passengers would have to
undergo a meticulous search. In this way, the danger of terrorism on flights arriving
from abroad could be largely mitigated.
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But in regard to domestic
flights, security measures must target Muslim passengers, and the emphasis
should be on preventing them from carrying more than one Muslim per flight
unless they are husband and wife or father and son. Of course, for flights arriving
from overseas, there is a probability that terrorists with foreign passports will
sneak aboard on the grounds that they aren’t Muslim. That likelihood could be
dealt with by tightened security measures at international airports with
flights bound for the United States.
Being an Arab Muslim, I admit
that I don’t trust taller Muslims living in Europe and America, particularly
since there are no devices that allow us to discern the intentions, faith and sincerity
of people.
Therefore, confronted with
the gravity and barbarity of terrorism, the best method to follow would be to hold
all Muslims in suspicion until the opposite can be proven. This is part of a
legitimate right to self-defense against terrorist attacks when we don't know
when or where they will originate; and when attacks could come from Muslims born
in Europe and America and who have lived the high life on their bounty, only to
later stab them in the back and betray them!
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The strange thing is that we haven't
heard any condemnations from the Islamic world, be it from clerics or
intellectuals, against that cowardly and criminal act that was timed to occur during
the New Year holidays. Where is the conscience, where are the human values, and
does the justice of Allah accept the killing of people by the disease of
terrorism?
*Khadir Taahar is a regular columnist with Iraq's
Kitabat newspaper
