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| Reason Buried Under The Rubble Mr Reason Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia THE dastardly terrorist attack against the
twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York killed thousands of
innocent civilians without warning. The world is rightly aghast at this latest
act of senseless murder and wanton destruction. The perpetrators of this act of infamy must
be brought to justice. No man must think that he can commit such
an act of wilful destruction and get away with it. But amidst the anguish
and the grief and the cry for retaliation another victim lies buried in
the rubble of the World Trade Centre. No one notices him and he lies ignored and
forgotten. His name is Reason. President Bush says the terrorists attacked
America because they hate the freedom that America stands for. British
Prime Minister Tony Blair says it is an attack against civilisation and
all civilised nations must now support the US. And so this has now become an attack
against freedom and civilisation. A line is being drawn and those that are
“free” and “civilised” must fall behind the United States or
forever be damned as enemies of freedom, as uncivilised. Yes, this is about freedom and civilisation
but not in the way that the West has framed it. History has shown us that
the yearning of the spirit to breathe the air of freedom often leads men
to do desperate things. When a people are brutalised, murdered and
condemned to live in squalor for decades, without dignity, without hope,
something invariably snaps and reason gives way to rage. Desperate men have nothing to lose and are
driven to desperate measures. When the civilised world averts its gaze to
the plight of a desperate people, desperate people turn upon a civilised
world. I am referring to the long and lonely struggle of the Palestinian
people. When will the West come to the realisation
that you cannot brutalise and subjugate an entire people for decades on
end and not expect to reap a whirlwind of death and destruction in return?
In a bizarre and macabre way, the attack on
the World Trade Centre was not an attack against freedom; it was a
desperate cry for it! It was not an attempt to The people who died were surely innocent;
their government was not because it allowed the carnage in Palestine to go
unchecked for so long. We have all become vulnerable. Twenty or so
desperate men brought the most powerful nation on earth to its knees and
the rest of the world with it. Over 5,000 are missing or dead. The US and
the world economy may now slip into recession. The words of Ernest Hemingway come to mind:
“Every man’s death diminishes me for I am a part of all mankind.
Therefore do not send to find for whom the bells toll, it tolls for
thee!” Reason was buried a long time ago in Palestine. Will the attack on the World Trade Centre
now bury reason in the United States as well? By all means go after the perpetrators of
this attack but please also listen to the desperate cry of the Palestine
people and their brothers. America cherishes its freedom; I pray it
will also cherish the freedom of the Palestinian people. In the final analysis, freedom must prevail for all or it will not prevail at all. Somewhere beneath the rubble of the World Trade Centre, Reason lies buried. I pray he will be found before America’s jihad begins. Source: |