Page 104 - Islam Denounces Terrorism

102 Islam Denounces Terrorism

It is a well-known fact that it is next to impossible to obtain
real-time or accurate information about radical terror orga-
nizations from its leaders or members. Terrorists in possession
of such information will either shoot it out with the security
forces, military or police or else have themselves killed or
commit suicide if they are about to be captured. That has
happened time and time again. However, examination of
the profiles of people captured and imprisoned by the U.S.
shows that the majority were put under arrest without resis-
tance. The information extracted from these individuals
were imaginary confessions made to end the torture.

Another point we need to concentrate on is the values
which the U.S. fights to protect, and the fact that torture
should have no place among those values. The U.S. wants
its own people to be free, not afraid of attack, and to build
a country in which its own traditional values are preserved
in peace and tranquillity, and it spends trillions of dollars to
that justified demand and loses thousands of young lives on
the battlefield when necessary. However, it still fails to
achieve a complete result.

As we all know, although the U.S. is governed by a secular
Constitution, it describes itself as a Christian society and it is
much more conservative than Europe. Does not the Bible,
the holy scripture of that conservative community, com-
mand love, compassion, forgiveness and unity? What Chris-
tian could support the idea that a person whose having
committed any crime merits being savagely tortured to
death?

The way for the U.S. to stand up for these fine spiritual val-
ues is to remain true to those values when times get tough.