Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda, within the Muslim world, is a confusing organization. On the one hand they are fighting for Muslim rights. They are calling for Jihad. Most importantly they are doing it in the name of Allah. It just seems wrong to stand against them.

Yet their strength of membership comes from “marginalized youth.” People who have had difficulties assimilating with Western surroundings while trying to retain their culture and heritage. So Al-Qaeda feels right for the best and the brightest, and loneliest?

It would make sense that those joining Al-Qaeda are the ones that are attempting to gain a spirit of belonging with a group. They have no place in this world, so why not something extraordinary to make sure the next one is better? Look at Columbine, and they didn’t even think they were going to heaven! They just needed to feel like they were part of SOMETHING.

Al-Qaeda, and other like organizations, offers something that our own governments could not offer, a sense of security. No matter what happens within the next few years if you do what they say, and fight the way they tell you, you go to heaven.

Perhaps it is now time that we take our security into our own hands. The government is obviously more concerned with other things, like its own security. So we need to take matters into our own hands. Wright advocates for change, for a Great Generation. Yet he warns against Egypt’s biggest enemy.

“Get rid of the cynicism,” he says.

The Muslim world will only be able to combat terrorism, imperialism, and all the other –isms that are thrown at them when they decide its time for a change, and that they will make that change. It’s the old paradox of the little train that could. “I think I can, I think I can”, and he did.

I think we can, I think we will, I just want everyone else to think the same way.