Tonight on CNN.com:
Atta's father praises London bombs
Speaking to CNN producer Ayman Mohyeldin Tuesday in his apartment in the upper-middle-class Cairo suburb of Giza, Mohamed el-Amir said he would like to see more attacks like the July 7 bombings of three London subway trains and a bus that killed 52 people, plus the four bombers...
El-Amir said the attacks in the United States and the July 7 attacks in London were the beginning of what would be a 50-year religious war, in which there would be many more fighters like his son...
The man, who gave his age as "at least 70," said he had no sorrow for what happened in London, and said there was a double standard in the way the world viewed the victims in London and victims in the Islamic world.
Has anyone really given any thought to the victims in the Islamic world? Does anyone bother to compare the interviews of terrorism survivors or bereft family members with interviews of Iraqi citizens who have had the same misfortunes bestowed upon them, like in Fallujia? If we are at war with terrorism...why are we still acting like we're being attacked by ruthless savages, when we're running around in Iraq attacking their cities all the time?
We read the thoughts of Mohamed Atta's father as ruthless and evil...but what exactly is the difference between him and the kids in my classes who wanted to "bomb and destroy the terrorists!!!" the day after 9/11...or the other Americans who want to just kill some Iraqis?
We're at war...yes. They are our enemies...yes. But, we need to listen to our enemies. Acknowledge what they are saying. Figure out why they are saying these things. Yeah, we may whole-heartedly disagree with their ideas, and that's totally fine, but totally disregarding them as crazy before even trying to understand is what the real danger is here.
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