Osama Bin Laden Hero or Terrorist
Why Muslims do not take bin laden as a hero?
Osama Bin Laden is dead. The U.S. government has been on his trail for almost 13 years and after America offered $25 million on his head—dead or alive he simply became the target of the largest manhunt ever taken in the history of mankind. But not everyone celebrated Bin Laden’s death. Not everyone saw him as a terrorist, in fact, some thought of him as a hero. Although Bin Laden may be regarded as a hero, but by killing innocent civilians, hijacking the noble religion and culture of Islam, and pushing the Al-Qaeda's mentally challenged individuals as suicide bombers he has to be considered as a true terrorist.
The debate about Bin Laden is a big and a very controversial one. Some people, like the Afghanistan people, might think that bin laden is a hero for taking revenge for Muslims from America. They might believe that by planning for the 9/11 events, Bin Laden showed America that Muslims can fight back. Also, the fact that he was killed without a trial made a lot of people question whether it was the right thing to do or not. According to Ortiz and Kirschbaum's article from Reuters, Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero went the farthest, becoming the first European leader to say openly that he would have preferred bin Laden stand trial. Last Wednesday Zapatero told Spanish Parliament, "Any democrat would have preferred to see him stand trial." But even if Bin Laden showed that Muslims are not weak and could fight back, he killed unarmed civilians in the process and there is no justification for that. Also he is one of the main reasons for distorting the image of Islam. After the 9/11 events whenever the word Muslim or Arab is mentioned it is usually associated with terrorism. So even though Bin Laden should have gone through a trial instead of being killed immediately, he deserved to die and he would have been sentenced to death anyway.
The first reason why Bin
Osama Bin Laden is dead. The U.S. government has been on his trail for almost 13 years and after America offered $25 million on his head—dead or alive he simply became the target of the largest manhunt ever taken in the history of mankind. But not everyone celebrated Bin Laden’s death. Not everyone saw him as a terrorist, in fact, some thought of him as a hero. Although Bin Laden may be regarded as a hero, but by killing innocent civilians, hijacking the noble religion and culture of Islam, and pushing the Al-Qaeda's mentally challenged individuals as suicide bombers he has to be considered as a true terrorist.
The debate about Bin Laden is a big and a very controversial one. Some people, like the Afghanistan people, might think that bin laden is a hero for taking revenge for Muslims from America. They might believe that by planning for the 9/11 events, Bin Laden showed America that Muslims can fight back. Also, the fact that he was killed without a trial made a lot of people question whether it was the right thing to do or not. According to Ortiz and Kirschbaum's article from Reuters, Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero went the farthest, becoming the first European leader to say openly that he would have preferred bin Laden stand trial. Last Wednesday Zapatero told Spanish Parliament, "Any democrat would have preferred to see him stand trial." But even if Bin Laden showed that Muslims are not weak and could fight back, he killed unarmed civilians in the process and there is no justification for that. Also he is one of the main reasons for distorting the image of Islam. After the 9/11 events whenever the word Muslim or Arab is mentioned it is usually associated with terrorism. So even though Bin Laden should have gone through a trial instead of being killed immediately, he deserved to die and he would have been sentenced to death anyway.
The first reason why Bin