the blue djinn of 9/11: a saudi moment of reflection and challenge

i read this at asharq al-awsat, the arab daily produced in london (presumably so it’s harder for authoritarian governments to interfere with) and, although i generally don’t tend to see eye-to-eye with their 0pinion page editor mshari al-zaydi, he makes a thoughtful and challenging set of observations about the prevalence of conspiracy theories circulating in the arab and islamic worlds about 9/11:

All these suggestions and scenarios indicate the extent of the control of wishful thinking over us. This is because the common factor among all these ideas is to put the responsibility on the shoulders of a party other than the Arab and Muslim party, i.e. a party that is not us. I remember that there were some who spoke of the involvement of the Colombian drug cartels in these attacks. What is important is that the involved side is someone other than us, even if this one is a blue jinn.

you can read the rest of his article here. insha’Allah, nothing like this should ever occur again to anyone in the world, whatever their nationality, religion or creed although it clearly appears the likes of al-muhajiroun are still up to their old tricks of lionising mass-murderers as “martyrs”. what a desecration of the Divine Name.