THE NOTION THAT SOMEONE AS ICONIC AS BIN LADEN WILL FADE FROM THE MUSLIM SCENE IS SIMPLY WISHFUL THINKING...
MANY MUSLIMS WILL FIND OSAMA MORE APPEALING DEAD...AS A MARYTR...THAT HE WAS IN LIFE...
THAT IS JUST THE NATURE OF PROPHETS AND THEIR MOVEMENTS...
CONSIDER... JESUS, BUDDHA, JOSEPH SMITH, AND OTHERS....
THEIR "RELIGIONS" DID NOT REALLY GET STARTED UNTIL AFTER THEIR DEATH OR MARTYRDOM...
THERE IS A HUGE INTERNAL WAR GOING ON IN ISLAM TODAY...THAT REALLY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE WEST...OR EVEN ISRAEL...
THE BEST THING WOULD BE FOR A NEW SECULAR ISLAM TO ARISE THAT CAN CO-EXIST WITH OTHER RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD AND NOT BE IN CONFLICT WITH THEM...OR WITH MODERN THINKING ABOUT SOCIETY, WOMEN, SCIENCE OR THE NATURE OF HUMANITY...
I AM A SECULAR AGNOSTIC...I PROFESS NO FAITH... AND I AM VERY HAPPY WITH THIS WORLD VIEW...AND RATHER PERPLEXED ABOUT ALL OF THIS RELIGIOUS CONFLICT...
BECAUSE FRANKLY I DON'T HAVE A DOG...OR A GOD...IN THIS FIGHT...
PERHAPS THE WAY TO "BEAT OSAMA" IS WITH BOOKS AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES, AND LECTURES BY OUR VERY SMARTEST PEOPLE...AND POP CULTURE AND MOVIES AND MUSIC...
AND NOT SO MUCH WITH BULLETS IN THE HEAD...?
