Islam after the incidents of 11 September instead of drifting along with the media uproar created by the political administration through the means of the media deception unit exposed by , as indeed these sixty intellectuals have, unfortunately, drifted.

Not surprisingly, the events of 11 September are the last in a list of “terrorist attacks” which the sixty intellectuals cite as evidence that the just and free America (in their view) is under attack by the enemies of justice and freedom. But the strange thing (in our view and the view of every seeker of truth and justice) is the absence of the other list, or what may be called the elimination from existence of the other pan in the scales of justice. This was not done by the leaders of the Pentagon, but by the hands of intellectuals who want to monopolize the discussion of values, or rather, to dictate values for the world which are –in their opinion- the loftiest values and fairest scales.

The Creator of the world has revealed that He has perfected its creation in justice, and that it is the duty of man to establish human life on justice also. According to this, people who do not measure with a just measure are in collision with the laws of universe, not just with the human preachers of justice:

The Most-Merciful, it is He Who has taught the Qur’an. He created man. He taught him eloquent speech. The sun and the moon upon their courses, and the stars and trees bow down. Heaven He has raised high, and the scales of justice He has set down: that you may not transgress the scales. So establish weight with justice, and do not fall short on the scales. –Qur’an 55:1 - 9

The truth is that the other list is too heavy for any scales no matter how large, since Hiroshima alone would fill it to overflowing, so where will we place the other examples of America’s pure and just war, such as Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War ... ?

Speaking of the Gulf, my conscience forces me to interrupt here in order to whisper to the consciences of the sympathetic mothers among the group such as Ms. Aird. While signing along with these three men and the others, how did you set aside the noblest of feminine emotions and forget the two million Iraqi children devoured by diseases caused by the vicious biological war against Iraq? Is that not enough to make you think seriously before signing onto the justification for American bombing of the children and women of Afghanistan, which used weapons of mass destruction previously unknown to the world, putting thousands of them to death while they lie sick and starving, so isolated in their steep mountains that they never heard of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, or Al-Qaeda?

Perhaps questions such as this are called for:

Why did the atomic bomb target the general hospital of Hiroshima, from there obliterating tens of thousands of people, and deforming tens of thousands of others? Why was the ‘Amariya bomb shelter in Baghdad targeted for a bombing in which 1,500 women and children were obliterated in an unprecedented hell-on-earth? Why did the bombing of Kabul target the Red Cross relief warehouse, turning their food and medicine into ash before the eyes of millions of the miserable poor? If that was an accident, then what does the repetition of the same mistake demonstrate to the world of values? If it was done on purpose, then does it have any place in the world of values?

Next, you ask, “what are we fighting for?”

We accept this question as a starting point for awakening the mind and conscience, and taking account of the soul, but as a prelude intended to defend immoral behavior in opposition to the conscience of the world, the nation, and Muslims, there is no point in theoretical discussion.