Martyrs in Paradise
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Noor hated America more than anything in the planet at that moment. She vowed that she would destroy anything American. Anything it stands for. Anything, if possible, everything. Revenge has taken all of her mind. Life was meaningless a while ago and suddenly, she had just found another meaning for it. A reason for her to live. That would also be the reason for her to die. Noor have thought of why people commit suicide before. Vengeance by suicide. She had thought of suicide as a rejection of God’s gift of life. ‘And suicide is an unforgivable sin, because the person doing so is rejecting the precious gift of life from God. And rejecting God’s gift is insulting God, the Creator. And rejecting the Holy Spirit by destroying its temple in us, our body, which was given by God. But God have promised paradise for those who would die for Him, His love and His gift. But killing innocent people is also a sin against God. But to kill those who have tried to kill you and yours may be excusable, for it could be self-defense and also self-preservation. For they may try to do it again. And trying to save your own life, the gift from God is also trying to save and protect God’s gift of life. Should I die for the gift that God gave me? Dying for my life,’ Noor’s mind begun to follow her left over logic. As a true believer of her faith, she had grown up learning that fighting and dying for one’s life, love and God would be rewarded and assured a place in paradise. Though it may not be very clear on women. They were the martyrs that desired to die for a cause, a reason and a goal with the ultimate dedication. They said there is an assured place in paradise for martyrs, man or woman, it doesn’t matter. Gender doesn’t matter. And she had the options. The options of staying alive and mourn all her life with so great a mental anguish and emotional grief. Or to be a martyr and join all her beloved family in paradise. She now found a reason for her personal holy war. She had a reason to die on her own freewill. And she believed that the Almighty God would forgive her on judgment day. For she would be dying for her life, her love and God. She believed she would become a martyr by doing so. She was then ready, on her way, headed for martyrdom. “Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.” Mohandas Ghandi(1869-1948), India's "Father of the Nation"[BQ] Noor was then infirmed and interned by the American rehabilitation workers in a civilian hospital doubling as haven or asylum for those victims that were temporarily mentally disabled by the war. The authorities were concerned about the trauma experienced by those exposed to too much violence and horrors of the war. She would later be transferred to an outpatient facility. Noor was a well-educated woman. She grew up decently, well provided and well behaved. Her parents have showered all their children with love. She knew how to think logically and reasonably. She was an elementary school teacher. She loved children. But a reservation arose from her misfortune and sorrow. She started hating American children. Too much hatred that she could not explain how she would deal with them when she meets them. Though in her subconscious mind she must be able to deal with them cautiously, still. She must know how to act in the right way and the correct manner. She still must compose herself and hide her ever increasing hatred and anger. From then on she must learn how hide her real self. How to hide her real feelings and hatred for them. And she has to prepare herself for that. A new life was coming up in the horizon. There’s too much uncertainty. And she has to be prepared and ready for this new life. There was too much uncertainty. And she had to to be prepared and ready for that new life. There was much work to do to face that new life, she needed to adopt a different kind of self control and discipline. She knew she had to act decently and well composed to get her normal image back again and work out her plan. She thought of making herself strong again and much more able. Recover from the enormous stress that she went through, then formulate her plans and push on with it. She needed some good rest and relaxation first to be strong again, to regain her energy, though her state of mind had totally changed because of the horrific incidents in her life. And as soon as she’d be stronger then she would be ready. She was always trying to calm herself down, to the point of psyching herself to the once jargon she heard from a street beggar that “No one gets out of this world alive.” She would always remind herself that her family just went ahead to paradise. And that they are waiting for her there. And there she would rejoin them. They would all be together again and it would be in a much better place. A peaceful place. A place where there’s no sorrow, no fear, no work, no hunger, no sickness, no hatred and no more death but only complete happiness. And aside from all that, no “infidels” “We don’t deserve what is happening to us. We haven’t done anything to make America attack us again.” Layla Hassan, then 39-year-old Iraqi mother and student. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=pZGfj-uwVhE)
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The quiet moments of global terrorism are over. They were silently on the move and highly motivated against the USA, first and foremost. To the radical extremist fascists’ international terrorists’ network, the USA was the easiest to infiltrate amongst the world’s super powers. Their ultimate target was the entertainment capital of the world, the city of sin and pleasure for the western free world. Assisted by human traffickers and smugglers, this time, thei suicidal martyr is a Woman of Mass Destruction (WMD). Westernized and American educated, desired by almost every man, a woman well adorned as well as scorned, the self appointed terrorist, the self declared jihadist, the self-anointed martyr is now ready to make her move. It all began in an island archipelago in the Pacific, where three young men who started out as childhood friends were separated by fate. One became the most wanted notorious non Christian rebel leader in that region, another became a hardened military combat zone officer and the third became… an American. Noor was a casualty turned weapon against the “Infidels”. Her mission before she perishes was to inflict as much damage and pain to portions of the society that caused her miseries. To make their statement that the war against terrorism is not over, and will not be over, and will not be won by the “Infidels”. Noor was the network’s ultimate weapon against the USA as the start of reviving the plan to totally disabling the US Mainland was initiated. She has been very well prepared for a self declared war compounded by ideological pressures from her own kind covering under the protection of religion. “Learning is not compulsory…. Neither is survival.” W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993)
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Born in the Philippines 10 years after World War II, Peter would hear nothing but stories of the war as a boy. And 22 more years before moving permanently to the USA, he had mingled and participated in that country’s different tribes, factions and politics. He had experienced "sit ins" on communist inspired activisms and protests while in school, and became a very active member, moving up to the position of Grand Archon, of a national collegiate fraternity, which is currently growing internationally and involved in civic activities and national humanitarian causes. His contemporaries, from different tribes, beliefs and faiths has evolved themselves to religious clerics, military personnel, professionals, civil servants, business people, private citizens and some went as far as anti government radical activists and rebels from different theological or political factions. In the early nineteen nineties, Peter tried to acquire a career with U.S. federal agencies and other local U.S. law enforcement communities, and one of the essays he wrote on applying with a national security agency in 1991 was entitled: "The Threat of Terror; Terrorism in Our Backyard", in which he foresaw the events that destroyed the stability of his old country of origin trying to get its possible way into the USA. He had seen and had been exposed to the hatred of some elements with the American way of life. And he also observed that some of them ends up, and tries to get themselves in the USA, to get their piece of American and Western style of freedom and liberty, after feeling oppressed, abused if not neglected in their own countries. Or plainly to escape prosecution or persecution. Peter reminded his parents before that if he had stayed in his old country, he would have made it to the rank of general. “Or dead!”, would be his mother’s reply.