The death of Osama bin Laden is a key moment in the history of radical Islamist movement he led. But could his death pose more danger than he was alive? Osama bin Laden has often said that he would not be captured alive as what would other jihadist say. They are even more confident to claim that their death would open more opportunities for other young jihadist to follow suit. The first was true but the second will be tested now.
U.S. authorities are clearly proud of the fact that finally, their number one enemy is dead. The question whether if they have totally silenced the al Qaeda movement is yet to be answered in the next episodes where we will find these young Islam fundamentalist grow mature.
Burying Bin Laden at sea has just triggered more questions than answer to many Muslims. They now consider Bin Laden as great martyr which was truly the ultimate goal of every jihadist, which is to die as martyrs. Some however are still in doubt if he was indeed killed during the operation or it was just some psychological tactic the US employed to confuse the enemy.
Whether Bin Laden is dead or still alive, the world should be able to address the root cause of these young unsatisfied Islam to be convinced to join the movement. It appears that there is an overwhelming power behind the movement that drives these people to act irrational to fulfil their calling. They should be made to understand that they should learn to live in harmony with other religion which is totally a dead end situation.
There are some Islam practitioners who abhor terrorism as what some of their brothers do and yet there are those who continue to look forward to getting the rewards in heaven after accomplishing their martyrdom. These are conflicting doctrinal teachings that needs to be addressed appropriately or otherwise the US will continue to live under the shadows of Bin Laden as he was able to successfully indoctrinate a lot of young Islamic followers to follow his footsteps.
The key to world peace is to dig deeper into the foundation the teachings of Islam and reverse the process. It is a fact that there are factions within the religion itself which makes it more difficult to address conflicting issues most especially in areas issues concerning Islamic religion infidels. If only they can start educating these young ones about peace and harmony then world peace can be achieved by probably in the next generation to come, or else we can just expect that the last war will be on religion.
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