Re: Zarqawi - Muslim view
I am glad that he is alive no more. He was a menace who brought trouble and misery to the people of Iraq and its future. Even if his main target was United States, his ways weren't the way to achieve the goal, a better future for Iraq. He killed numerous innocent people and really made no headway in his so called freedom of Iraq--------we really don't know what he wanted to accomplish to begin with.
I agree with the posters that he was another propaganda man for Bush administration. I believe that American media has made a living on 'evil doers'. They want a face and name to hate and Zarqawi fit the bill when discussing Iraqi insurgency. First it was Osama, then came Saddam and his sons....I remember American media comparing him to Adolf Hitler and how his removal will be similar to Nazi's defeat in WWII.
I am more concerened about Iraqi insurgency and on-going violence. I don't think his death will bring any halt to it. It will, however, help the insurgency as there is no face to go with it. His picture and details of death are just for American viewers who, unlike an average Iraqi, do not see and observe death and destruction first hand. So, its really silly to say that those foreign fighters and terrorits will be any bit troubled.
In the end, Zarqawi will go down under the names of Osama and Zawahiri, 'The internationally known terrorists'. I don't know where they would end up in our history, heros or zeros but they really haven't done anything for our Muslim Ummah. Zarqawi was more concerned with bombs than schools or building hospitals. If we accuse Bush and his administration for not having a plan for Iraq, Zarqawi and others didn't help in that cause either.