On "Al -Qaeda" By Jason Burke

"THIS SHOULD BE A COMPULSORY READING FOR RUMSFELD AND HIS CLIQUE'
                                                                                      Says the - Evening Standard

"DON'T DIE A VIRGIN
TERRORISTS ARE UP THERE
WAITING FOR YOU"

  My old buddy David who presently is basking in Eisenada, Mexico, had posted this catchy sign at a bus stop in an American town somewhere. I am referring to it even as I am writing this. Way to go right David?, let us load a few more ignorance and delusions on to the collective spirit, why not, we have the means.That sign cost someone or the government itself some money to have it well done and how many of these catchy signs can we afford to put up all over our city? 'Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills, and every where! Go tell it on the mountain to let my people, from a Jewish song; yes let us keep telling it as it is so long as we can.
 After having read one third of the book, AlQaeda by Jason Burke I have to raise my hat to the man who put his life against all odds to capture the truth about Islamic Militancy, the whys and hows and the possible means to help heal the crack in the collective human spirit through better understanding. It takes some reading and the patience to stay with the loads of events that covers what it is Islamic Militancy is all about; you have to bring all your own understanding prior to reading the book to reflect when and where you had acted on here-say and media fed information alone. The amount of work Jason Burke must have invested into his work must be short of what is 'Jihad'. If a Muslim he definitely qualifies to the 72 vested virgins;
What I am beginning to understand from reading the book is the brief history of the conflicts in the modern Middle and Eastern Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and all the way to Indonesia; the uprising of Muslim Militancy how it came to be has never been quite clear to me. Burke has helped to narrow down the large screen to a clearer insight into the root of what is presently the Modern Muslim world.
 It is a miracle that Burke has not converted himself to Islam having spent so much time and energy into discovering its inner workings from so many different perspective other than why Muslims are terrorists. If you have a choice of being dominated over by communism  or by Islam which would you choose? History has given you ample time and periods of both these ideologies or religions, their success and their failures; which would stand up against time? Which is more a menace? Perhaps communism itself is no more a threat today than more sinister apparitions out there making things happen beyond my knowledge. cooperation's and conglomerates, Clandestine entities aspiring to dominate the world..yada...yada..! We have become victims of our own self deluded thinking mind and as such we live ultimately in Fear and ignorance and we disguise these with bad tasting humor not awakened to the fact that what we do helps to reinforce what is already set in motion negative or positively; we are fueling the mind with more garbage for it to digest and regurgitate.
The likes of Ossama Bin laden, and Emiliano Zappata, or Che Guevara and many others to HO Chi Min will always be a stigma in our global history for they were the ones who stirred the pot when it was needed and they helped to keep the human evolutionary changes happen; the human mind needs to be fed constantly by new excitements and craves for more and more experiences... "to go boldly where no man has gone before... to seek out new thoughts and ideas, to fill up empty spaces, to keep from getting bored to death. This is living in the mind-dominated space; this is mental hell. How do we step out of this hell hole? self discovery, self healing and self alignment to the whole the universe, the entities around us the sounds and voices, the birds and the flowers, the roaring traffic and the cry of pain from every soul that is suffering at the present moment in time. When you can touch this space within you ,you will be able to change what is into what you wish for it to be; change happens within us whether we are conscious or unconscious about it.

Finished reading, "Al Qaeda" 'The True Story of Radical Islam' by Jason Burke; very well researched and has the depth that is spiritual in revealing what is the truth of  Muslim Millitancy. An eye opener for those who see Islam through the eyes of CNN and Al jazeera or BBC and Dick Cavet. An eye opener for those Muslims who has stood by and assumed while others took the initiative to act. A few years agao in one or two of my entries I said to myself that i was going to answer the quest posted by the former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohd. " What makes a Terrorist?' Is it poverty? Is it hunger? is it being disenchanted by life itself? Is it for a cause that is wll too clear. is it because one is sick and tried of being kicked around by every Tom Dick and Harry from all wlaks of life, simply because! Why would a sane man want to become a human dynamite and blow up others along with himself, belief? Faith? Insanity?: Why?

" All Millitants explain their own personal, local experiences by reference to one greater truth - that islam is under attack....The Millitants believe they are fighting for a last-ditch battle for the survival of their society, culture, religion and way of life. They believe that the Crusades never ended and that they are now fighting  in a desperate war of self- defence...."
"...They understand,as we in the West alos beleive, that self defence can justify using all sorts of tactics that might be frowned on in other circumstances. They believe as we think too, that they are figghting to preserve their lives, socities and culture.."
"Currently millitary power is the default, the weapon of choice. In fact the greatest weapon available on the war war on terrorism, is the courage, decency, humoor and itegrity of the vast proportion of the 1.3 billion Muslims. It is this that is restricting the spread of Al Qaeda and its warped worldview, not the activities of counter terrorists experts or millatary strategists.It is this that, as Ilamic terrorism grows more and more fragmented, we need most. Without it we are lost. There is indeed a battle between the West and men like bin laden. But not a battle for global supremacy. It is a battle for hearts and minds. And it is a battle we, and our allies in the Muslim world are losing.
                                                   Al Qaeda by Jason Burke  (pg. 288, conclusion)