Not Acceptable

I want to scream. Scream until my lungs burst. Scream until the world hears me. Until the world listens to me. Scream until I know that I can't scream anymore.

At the risk of sounding like a terrorist, I want to tell everyone that the way Osama bin laden was murdered was vicious and inhumane. I want everyone to know that I, as a Muslim, probably hate him more than any other group of people. He took my peaceful, loving religion and made it a violent, angry, hateful cult. In one day, he turned the world against us. So, needless to say, I wanted him dead. But everyone needs to know that he was shot between the eyes when he was unarmed and just walking outside his house. I want everyone to know that this definitely fell under cruel and unusual punishment. I want everyone to know that he was not posing an "imminent threat" which according to the American law is the only acceptable reason for killing someone as a means of self defense. I want everyone to know that Pakistan didn't even know that there were American troops in Pakistan ready to kill Osama bin laden. People need to know that though America prides itself on being the greatest fucking democracy around, it performed a very un-democratic act that day. If Iraq, a country we claimed didn't have a working democratic government at the time, could've given Saddam Hussein a fair trial, why couldn't the greatest democratic system figure out a way to give Osama bin laden a trial. Why were civilized Americans savagely dancing and celebrating the cold-blooded murder of this horrible man. Why did we stoop so low. Why can't our exceptionalistic minds understand how un-exceptionalist we actually are. This social construction is so engrained that no one even recognizes its existence.

And that makes me sad.

If Pakistan, or any other country, had come into America, without America knowing, and killed a criminal like that, that country would definitely be thought of as an uncivilized nation. And would have been reprimanded for its illegalities.

But all everyone will hear is that a terrorist from UCSD with a towel on her head is defending Osama bin laden. And that makes me want to scream.