Arab world needs to radicalize, Usamah was a treasure for Afghanistan and Pakistan. They disrespected him with their failures.
Trolling aside, I disagree. Osama, might have had legitimate and good reasons for his anti-US/West rhetoric (colonialism/meddling at the turn of the 20th century which lasted 2 decades or so in the Arab Middle East, some places a bit longer, in the Maghreb, where it was the case the longest, Algeria was under French rule for almost 140 years starting in 1830), the inhuman sanctions on Iraq after 1991, American imperialism in the region (aided by the local rulers and disunity), growing influence of Western culture that threatened the traditional religious lifestyle for the very religious lot, a sense of injustice, the USSR invasion and subsequent war crimes in USSR, the Palestine situation and injustice, anti-House of Saud and anti-pro West Arab regimes, anti-Arab secularism ideologies (due to religious reasons - preferring the pan-islamic approach hence his decision to go to Afghanistan, had he been inspired by Arab nationalism that would never have occurred) etc.
However as we have seen this approach is creating nothing but misery as the US could not back then nor today be defeated military.
It would be 1000 times more preferably if Arabs and Muslims as a whole tried to retake our previous position as the dominating scientific society in the world (or one of the mat least without a doubt) and doing a scientific inner jihad for the greater benefit of our nations and peoples.
I want to see a Jihad among us engineers, among biologists, doctors, lawyers etc. A jihad to prevent wastefulness, injustice, inclusiveness, to work for Arab cooperation without Arab group, people x or y trying to dominate and subjugate his brother or sister depending on ideology, sect, clan, social status etc., a jihad to save our environment, heritage, nature, to fight corruption etc.
But the world is a jungle this is nothing new.
Sanctions which killed 100.000's of innocent Iraqi civilians are not much talked about in the West if at all (or the world for that matter) because the current world has been/is dominated and shaped by the West while 9/11, a reaction to all this negative meddling (of course a bad action does not excuse another bad counter reaction) that killed 3000 people, is talked about like some WW3.
Iraq before the illegal 2003 invasion (yes, Saddam was incompetent on many fronts and a dictator):
Sad to think that at least 25% of those people on those videos are dead.
BTW OBL was a bit of an idiot and wasted talent. He could have used his engineering degree, family wealth and relative clever head, to help his father's Yemen or mother's Syria or help within KSA even though he agreed with the policies of the regime back then.
From a purely Arab nationalistic notion, Arab involvement in Afghanistan was deeply unnecessary but from a religious perspective it was understandable and indeed praiseworthy. Back then there was no ISIS or such methods and the targets were pure combatants/enemy forces.
Now we have the coronavirus that has paralyzed the entire world.
You delve in tangents as no one ... or at least none I can think off... either way ... I know the larger picture ... you cherish your victories albeit small and out of context... so twisting or bending narrative in your favor is your game... but it is a game! Anyways, I had and perhaps many like minded had started considering everyone who spoke Arabic as an Arab, different they maybe in every other way. But now that understanding, though there for me but for some maybe a bit problematic... who is an Arab? Because as we know Quraish or Banu Kinanah were not ethnic Arabs... neither speakers of Arabic language until they moved and settled in Hejaz. But I don't want this to be academic as yours is mostly rhetorical... a bruised ego even. But Arabs haven't seen their worst yet... Allah SWT knows best.
By sticking to your Arab nationalism you negate the very chief principle of Islam... "kibr" Pride
“And surely, We created you (your father Adam) and then gave you shape (the noble shape of a human being); then We told the angels, ‘Prostrate yourselves to Adam’, and they prostrated themselves, except Iblees (Satan), he refused to be of those who prostrated themselves.
(Allaah) said: ‘What prevented you (O Iblees) that you did not prostrate yourself, when I commanded you?’ Iblees said: ‘I am better than him (Adam), You created me from fire, and him You created from clay’”
[al-A’raaf 7:11-12]
And,
“Verily, the most honourable of you with Allaah is that (believer) who has At-Taqwa [i.e. he is one of the Muttaqoon (the pious)”
[al-Hujuraat 49:13]
I hope it registers.
Enough from me!
I don't consider stating well-known historical facts and ground realities as some imaginary "online victories". Just common sense.
Arabs is anyone that speaks and considers himself an Arab today. He can be of a pure Arabian stock and not. As for who is an Arab and who is not, 99.99% of all people from Morocco in the West to Oman in the East, who go by the name and identity "Arab", are of a Semitic/Afro-Asiatic stock belonging to the same larger Caucasian family and being genetically connected. Similarly almost all being closely related Semitic people hence the easy and quick Arabization process.
As for who is a "pure Arab" (whatever that is knowing human genetics - everyone being mixed and ultimately originally from Africa) that is bound in mysteries, ancient sayings, well-known documents, but what we know for certain is that Arabs have had a presence in most of the Arab world, outside of East of Libya, for at least 2800 years. That and that there was very little distinction between those closely related and neighboring (mostly Semitic peoples but not only) that inhabited the Arab world which modern-day genetics confirm and that every Arab today has Arab ancestry to larger or smaller degree and almost all of us have Semitic origins and origins to our native lands since recorded history while being of a Caucasian stock.
I am not an Arab nationalist. I am an Arab patriot. I don't believe in blind nationalism. For instance I am not an Saudi Arabian nationalist as I find most of the modern-day nations as fake/recent constructs who have had their borders changed 100 times from Europe to Africa to Asia to everywhere else.
What I believe in is a civilizational kinship which transcends modern day borders and such a thing is very much alive in the Arab world due to everything (almost everything that we can think about) which binds us Arabs together. As for Islam, I don't see any contradiction between being a Muslim and an Arab patriot seeing that almost all of the greatest Muslim figures (in particular the early ones) being Arab patriots and wanting the best for their people. Clearly demonstrated in history but Arabs like any other people back then and today, had their faults so those same figures were also critical similar to how I am critical of certain Arab regime policies, behaviors etc. So no, I am anything but a blind retarded nationalist or keyboard warrior like many people on PDF who have never even fought for their nation in a war let alone done anything to better their country. I consider myself a patriot but that is also a word that you need to deserve. I do my small part to foster Arab unity on PDF, elsewhere on the internet and in my personal life by whatever means that I can. In Arab countries and the West/among the diaspora.
If one day Arab politics that transcend borders (I believe this is a question of time) becomes a thing, and I am alive by then (had the luck to be so), I will try to participate and argue my case and why I think that my views are right.
So this imaginary "Arab supremacy" nonsense is not going to work for me.
