Volume I No. 35
 11-14-02
 The Unremarkable Death of Mir Aimal Kasi
 { Just Another Angry Arab } 
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2002

 Back in 1993 the machine gun assault outside of the gate at the CIA offices 
 in Langley Virginia was big, big news. The murderer - Mir Aimal Kasi -
 raked the cars of innocent Americans with the deadly spray from an AK47.
 Kasi quickly disappeared and was a fugitive from justice for four years,
 until his capture in Pakistan in 1997.

 Kasi's act was frightening in an of itself. So many questions were yet to 
 be answered - or even asked back in 1993. Did Kasi act alone? Were there
 more murderous terrorists in the United States? Was the attack at the CIA 
 a part of a larger conspiracy? One that stretched far beyond Mir Aimal Kasi?

 Now much is known about Mir Aimal Kasi. --- On this the date of his 
 death by lethal injection. He was merely an angry Arab. A man incensed at 
 the way Muslims were treated around the world. In his opinion, mistreated 
 and taken for granted, because of the hostile governmental policies of the 
 United States of America. So on his own apparently, Kasi decided it was 
 time to take up arms, and teach the U.S. government a lesson. And so within 
 the brain of this angry man, a plot was concocted to get some Americans. 
 And what better place than at the very gates of the hated Central Intelligence 
 Agency.

 Forward to 2002. 

 Osama Bin Laden is America's greatest enemy. - At least in a rhetorical sense.
 And Pakistan, the land of Kasi's birth was a major factor in the American
 effort to drive the Taliban out of Afghanistan. Without the assistance and
 cooperation of the Pakistani goverment, the war against the Taliban would
 have been much more difficult. And certainly more costly in American lives.

 One angry Arab against the World's last standing superpower. Kasi's
 effort was futile from the very start. His life is wasted. -- Gone now. He is
 but a footnote in the greater story that is the battle against Osama Bin Laden,
 Al Qaeda, and Fundamentalist Islam. There is a worry of retaliatory attacks 
 in response to Kasi's execution, but those warnings only serve to highlight 
 that Al Qaeda is an inconvenience. { although a major one } A car bomb here. 
 A kidnapping and murder somewhere else. Painful indeed for those on the 
 business end of these attacks, but nevertheless futile in the greater scheme
 of things.

 All the angry Arab men with AK47's cannot change the world. Or defeat the
 United States and its allies. This is a battle of cultures. And has been asked
 so many times before. Where are the moderate Arabs who are the only hope
 for the Middle East? For they are the engine - the force - that must recapture 
 the minds and the imagination of Arab youth. The U.S. - Osama Bin Laden, 
 notwithstanding, is a false dragon. The lack of educational opportunites, 
 personal freedoms, the denial of rights for both men and women to express 
 their opinions freely, and the intolerance of cultural and religious diversity, are 
 the stagnating force that have rendered the Islamic world to secondary status.

 It is not the fault of the West.

 Islam must find a way to modernize and to integrate with the modern world
 more effectively. By default, Indonesia - despite its tolerance for dictators -
 was just such an example. The world's largest Islamic state. A state that was
 not backward looking - but was a brilliant example of what a tolerant, and
 stable Islamic society could become. And now the infection that is fundamentalist 
 Islam has spread there. Many moderates in that Asian archipelago feel
 threatened. Perhaps the Indonesian experiment in a more modern form of 
 Islam is on its death bed.

 How many more hapless murderers like Mir Aimal Kasi will there be? Angry 
 Muslim men full of rage against America. The false dragon. For the real demon 
 is within Islamic society itself. Certainly, neither the entire world - nor even 
 the entire Middle East - will ever be pulled backward into the Dark Age that 
 the Islamic Fundamentalists would have us live in.

 They will suffer their fate alone.
 

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