Arab response to bin Laden’s death muted

[TomCADem]

Source: Washington Post

BEIRUT — A decade ago, the Middle East might have responded to the killing of Osama bin Laden with fury at the United States. But with the region convulsed by mostly peaceful popular revolutions, the response to his death has been muted, another signal that the old Arab order is being swept away.

For this new generation, the young Tunisian who set himself on fire and ignited a revolution is a bigger hero than bin Laden, whose vision of martyrdom and jihad has been replaced by more prosaic aspirations such as free elections, good governance and an end to corruption.

“You will see protests for freedom and democracy, yes. But for Osama bin Laden? Definitely not,” said Mustafa Alani, director of the Security and Terrorism Studies Program at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai.

In the Arab world, he said, al-Qaeda was “already dying.”


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/war-zones/arab-response-to-bin-ladens-death-muted/2011/05/02/AF69WLcF_story.html?hpid=z3

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Odd that so many news organizations are surprised that Muslims do not universally support the terrorist actions of Bin Ladin.

[RainDog]

1. But people have noted this for a while now

however, with teabaggers and Palin and others screaming about how we should be afraid of everything, this kind of information gets lost in the circuses.

We need better news outlets - or at least ones that don't exist to merely engage in propaganda.

[TheWraith]

2. Muted because they would prefer to forget about him, no doubt.

Headline: "White people's reaction to Hitler's death muted."

[EFerrari]

4. Apples and staple guns.

These people had nothing to do with Bin Laden.

[99th_Monkey]

3. So many layers of irony, and still counting. ~nt

[slackmaster]

5. bin Laden's actions led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Muslims

Of course they don't universally support him.