FREE ESSAY ON IS THE MIDDLE JUST TO DIFFERENT;CAN'T WE JUST GET ALONG?

IS THE MIDDLE JUST TO DIFFERENT;CAN'T WE JUST GET ALONG?

Glen Gemeniano
COM100
12-1-98
Persuasive rebuttal speech
I am refuting my previous speech where I tried to persuade you that the United States
didn't need to take military action aganst Iraq, because by doing so we would be imposing
our value system upon them. I felt I needed to refute my previous speech, because It is
important to understand the whole situation before drawing a conclusion.In _______'s
speech he introduced the issue of terrorism.In his speech he argued that the Iraqi crisis
wasn't about the United States trying to impose it's values upon the Middle Eastern
People but rather a situation that endangered our national security. I agree with
________that the problem in the Middle East is terrorism, but it's not their actions that
are the root of their problem but rather their system of belief. To understand how they
believe you must first understand the situation in which they are in.
source(cnn interactive)
Ok imagine yourself growing up in a world where there has been constant war for
centuries, because of conflicting religious beliefs. People pray often and go to temple
daily. You would probably grow up to be very religious and strong in your faith. 
In Iraq and in Iran this is the setting. Iran and Iraq are Muslim countries.
source(World Assembly of Muslim Youth Web site)
The let's take for example the Muslim religion which calls for it's people to pray
regularly, fast, give charity, and to convert others to the religion of Islam.Some of
fundamentalists do the highest form of worship and that is Jihad. Jihad meansstruggle or
others put it holy war as written about in the Koran is the Jihad which is the converting
of non-believers to the religion of Islam. By doing this they seek to obtain God's
blessing of paradise. Islamic terrorist are Islamic fundamentalist who are also very
devout in their beliefs. 
When Islamic fundamentalist took over Iran during the Iranian revolution it was it was
not contested by any other nation because it was seen as a fulfillment of the prophecy
written in the Koran which said The state the adopts the ideology of Islam bears the
responsibility of carrying to new lands. 
source(abcnews.com)
One of the Islamic fundamentalist who fought on the front lines of the Iranian revolution
was the billionaire Osama Bin Ladin. He is the most wanted man in the world having been
suspected in connection with the bombings of the world trade center and the U.S.
embassies in Sudan + Lybia. This man has a great deal of influence amongst many muslims
here in America as well as in the middle east. He issued a fatwa a holy order for muslim
people to kill all americans during his interview with Oliver Miller of ABCNEWS somewhere
in Afganistan.
evidence
When he did this he endangered our way of life by calling upon all the people of islam to
target us. Whether or not they are an fundamentalist who strictly adheres to the
teachings of the Koran or a muslim who has inspired by the Iranian revolution that you
join the fundamentalist movement which is to bomb major American metropolitan places.
Because you don't know if your muslim neighbor for years might one day come knocking at
your door with rifle in hand coming to kill you, That example might be a little
exaggerated but what if he were one of those muslims who actually took his words
seriously. Although most arabians living in the United States aren't fundamentalist, but
an average American would not be able distinguish one.
The next one country will possibly be Iraq, because it's defenses are only at 8% of what
it was during the Gulf War, because UNSCOM destroyed most of them during the last 7 years
and it wouldn't be hard to gather support form the muslims within Iraq who are fed up
with Saddam's insults. It's the ideal time to take-over Iraq, because it is weak and
vulnerable. They are vulnerable because the people of Iraq are poor and hungry. They
would not think twice about revolting against Saddam. Saddam is ruling Iraq for his own
selfish reasons.
(source London Gazeteer)
An interview with Abbas Al Janabi ,the Iraqi defector who was the former secretary of
UDAY Hussein who is Saddam's son who is also the head of department of General Welfare.
 Uday is the sole beneficary of the U.N.Sanctions, and he is also the biggest oil
smuggler in Iraq
Uday indirectly owns about fifty vessels that are used for smuggling oil through the
Gulf, using Iranian frontmen. He pays approximately one hundred dollars for each ton
exported. In addition, Uday uses a fleet of trucks to smuggle oil to Turkey, coordinating
his activities with certain Kurds. 
It shows that Saddam is letting many millions of Iraqi's die for his own greed.
Because Sddam is benefiting from the sanctions he would not let Islamic Saddam would not
let Islamic fundamentalist take-over Iraq voluntarily. 
In my previous speech I said that the Iraq and Iran had the 2nd and 3rd largest oil
supply respectively. If a future Iranian invasion of Iraq were to happen and Iran won
then it would control the world's largest oil supply and be able to to jack-up prices
causing economies to tumble. Many countries hold oil concession sin Iran ie. Russia,
France,United States, Britain.
Iran could easily takeover Iraq because Iraqi people would not support a leader who
mistrated them for the last 7 years. Most people in Iraq are muslims already so they
would invite the fundamentalist movement in Iraq.
It would cause such terrorist leader's such as Osama Bin Ladi to have more power, because
it influence many muslims to become involved in the fundmentalist movement. The
exaggeratted statement I gave earlier about your muslim neighbor shooting you will become
much more of a possibility.
From a few fundamentalist grew millions. They rule the countries of Afganistan and Iran.
The muslim fundamentalist threat is very dangerous, because many middle eastern people
are being converted to the religion that has changed from a religion of peace into one of
war. Other Islamic fundmentalist argue that they don't force other people to the
religion. In the Koran it states Had God not checked one set of people by means of
another, the earth would indeed have been full of mischief; but God is full of bounty to
all the worlds (2:251). 
We can't attack Iran because most of Europe's oil comes from Iran and would be outraged
if the United States were to take such action. We can't take-over Iran but only protect
the rest of the middle eastern countries from further Islamic invasion.
Most of you would agree that by causing our economy to tumble and the destruction of many
American buildings would be seen as nothing less than as affecting our way of life. The
American consitution defines an individual's rights only extends to where somone else's
begins. Islamic terrorist bombing of World Trade Center and Pan American Flight 103 are
violation of our rights, because they are killing us.A take-over of Iraq would cause
paranoia of Arabian desent in the United States as portrayed in the movie seige.
This how one author described his view of the Islamic fundamental movement in Iran.
Another theme of the new fundamentalism has been an attempt to get Islamic history back
on the right tack and to make the umma [Muslim community] effective and strong once
again. The Iranian revolution was not just an atavistic return to the past, but an
attempt to impose decent values in Iran again. -- p. 265 
If their religion our value system rationalize such acts as bombing the World Trade
Center and U.S. embassies then something is wrong with their beliefs.