The Jackalicious Files

Most of my college finals are up and I finally had time to go to my shop and finish refurbishing the steering wheel to my Volkswagen Beetle. An hour or two had passed when my wife walked in to inform me that Osama Bin Ladin was officially dead - the President speaking via satellite appeared calm and candid while announcing the feat our military completed without the help from Pakistan, or any other nation for that matter. What is a bigger surprise is that the man wasn't in some remote cave in the wilderness or hiding in a shack in some remote town. No, Osama/Usama was in a million dollar home in a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan. It is certain that some high level officials in Pakistan knew of his abode.

Before it made it to the news a friend of mine fighting in Afghanistan informed me online that it was a Navy Seal team who carried out the mission as ordered by President, Barack Obama. I was absolutely elated to hear that the mastermind who spent a good decade of his life in hiding, was forever snuffed out of existence, never to plan another attack on innocent civilians. That excitement was short lived after I began to think of the consequences of this. I'm sure in the coming weeks we'll see small terrorist attacks here and there and more than likely, on U.S. soil.

It goes without question that radical religion, no matter the faith, is a danger to everyone. Whether it is some unknown cult of a larger faith, Christian or Islam, the radicalization stems from some idea that what was once agreed upon, just isn't good enough. Radical Islam has come about because a few felt that the faith was becoming too western. Women were given equal status to men, clothing began to become to western looking and god forbid, young were being educated in the sciences and given new ideas on life.

Osama is dead, but what people really need to remember is that he was a follower of a much bigger problem, and it's not going away any time soon.

"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac." ~ George Orwell, 1984