Justification

[rowyn]

Everyone has a story they tell themselves. A story that explains it all, that justifies it. Why it was the right thing to do. Why it made sense at the time. Why you are a good person.

"It was just a little white lie." "I didn't want to hurt his feelings." "She wanted it." "They've got so much, they'll never miss it." "He was asking for it." "It wasn't part of the contract." "Insurance will cover it." "I didn't know."

Everyone is the protagonist in their own story.

And I just want to know, what is yours?

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[level-head.livejournal.com]

The jihadist war, and the terrorist organizations involved, rise from the teachings and operations of the Muslim Brotherhood -- an organization founded eighty years ago by (ironically and sadly) an elementary school teacher. His name was Hasan al-Banna.

His writings, and those of followers in his footsteps including Usama bin Ladin, have no end of justification and rationalization for such acts.

They divide the world into the people of Allah (just their own group) and the people of Satan (which includes all non-traditional and non-Sunni Muslims). Killing the people of Satan, to them, is not murder; it is merely purification.

As Sheik Yousef al-Qaradawi (MB leader and head of the European Council on Fatwa and Research) put it recently, "There is no dialogue between them and us other than in one language -- the language of the sword and force."

On BBC TV, he said "Allah Almighty is just; through his infinite wisdom he has given the weak a weapon the strong do not have, and that is their ability to turn their bodies into bombs as Palestinians do."

He has no problem, I think, justifying what we describe as atrocities.

And the MB considers the education of girls to be an atrocity; they've been bombing girls' schools in Pakistan for years (this one was 2008).

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