Videos lie

It has become evident that there are those within the Muslim world that are attempting to turn the present war in Iraq into a Fourth Crusade and this term should not be propagated to any further degree by the media. The leaders of al Qaeda have been trying very hard to portray Osama bin Laden as the Salah al-Din figure in this fantasy and have even gone as far as to say his spirit resides in bin Laden.

For someone to imply that a disgusting, murderous individual forced to hide within the confines of various caves out of fear of being killed is in any way the Salah al-Din of the Muslims is absurd. In fact, it should not even have any further credence put to it by our media or the media of the world. Osama is the poorest choice for an example of Salah al-Din and if he had lived during that time would not have been considered worthy enough to tend to the horses.

The world would do very well if the spirit of Salah al-Din did exist today; he was a fair and righteous ruler who commanded the respect of both the Muslims and the Christians during the crusades as well as allowing the inhabitants of Jerusalem to leave upon capturing it. He and England’s Richard the Lion heart had what some have called a friendship and respect between them. Now we have individuals who are propagating the fourth crusade issue referring to Bush as today’s Lion Heart and bin Laden as the Salah al-Din and they should be committed to the nearest institution till they come to their senses.

The Taliban and al-Qaeda have openly declared a jihad against America and the term jihad means holy war, that is the one and only form of text in which this term can be used. It is by no means a fourth crusade, nor is it a holy war as far as America is concerned.  

Now they are releasing videos in a back-to-back scenario in their weak attempt to create a misinformation structure among the world. We are supposed to believe anything and everything they are saying because, well after all, they released a video.

They need to recall that we invented that in the first place, the idea of misinformation and they may try as they might, but sorry, we have you in hiding and running for safety, I would say that means you are full of it.