Friday I sat down in front the TV and watched a movie named unthinkable. The movie itself was interesting enough to keep me awake until it’s end but the plot is what I wish to talk about in my article.
In the movie, an American Muslim Terrorist planted nuclear bombs in 3 different locations or cities if you will across the USA which will destroy those cities if his demands are not met by then.
After trying humanitarian investigation methods the US army and government call upon a “special” investigator with methods’ how can I say it, a bit different then what we are accustomed to in the west. The new investigator is depicted as a sadist in the beginning cutting fingers, tearing out fingernails etc… and everything a western person would define as cruel and sadistic.
BUT, the plot thickens when a few hours are left to the deadline and everybody – including a bleeding heart FBI female agent ask that investigator to “do his thing” and get the information that will save millions. The investigator asks that FBI agent to specify what exactly should he do, as if seeking for approval from her to justify what he is doing, but she cant say the specific words. Eventually the terrorist’s wife is killed in front of him, and he still doesn’t talk, and then his kids are entered into the torture chamber with him (although nothing is done to harm them) and the terrorist specifies where the bombs are located.
Now, there is actually a moral question here and a big one, and that’s what I liked about the movie, how long will one be willing to go to save millions’ and don’t answer right up, for example: Will you be able to hurt children if you were put in that situation? If you knew that by killing or maiming 2,3,5 kids in order to save 10 million people – would you do it?
For us, people of the western world it is a tough question, but for Muslim countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon etc… the answer is pretty obvious – yes they will. Recently they sentenced a women in Iran to be killed by stoning for cheating her husband, so think what they would do if someone threatened to detonate a bomb in the middle of Tehran…
The moral question keeps rising, but the main idea evades us, we treat our fellow men with dignety and respect, we respect life , ours and other people’s, Terrorists don’t.
The latest example is the Masgue next to ground zero, there are so many places on this blue marble we call earth to build Masgues, why does it have to be ground zero?
Let me ask the question in a different way, can we build a synagogue or a church next to the Masjid al-Haram? I wonder what will be the fate of the one even suggesting that idea…
If Israel for example will fire rockets on Palestinian civilians on [urpose like tha Hamas fires on Israeli Civilians what will happen then?
We are allowing our democracy and moral to be abused by Muslims radicals and Muslims in general. They go and do their deeds out of “innocence” and the west is always the conqueror and oppressor. This is why the world is headed to the biggest cultural clash in history, Islam is spreading fast and the consequences are catastrophic. Soom, there will be a Masgue in every American street, and the land of the free may return to be the wild west – yet again.