Obama or Osama - Muslims will remain where they are today
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Submitted by kamekish (India), Nov 18, 2008 at 11:50

Muslim predicts that world will end because most of them see no hope in this world to get a better future in their medieval thinking, emotional sentiments, conservative life styles and frustrating politics. It is useless to talk about ‘the tall black man'. From my point of view, these are all hypothetical imagination which has negligible life.

If any Muslim thinks, Obama or Osama can cure their hell, they are absolutely wrong.

Like Obama, changes have always come to this world in pieces in different times. People predict the emergence of new environment from their own limited wisdom. I find most of them irrelevant except few who maintained their integrity of thinking. Especially with Muslim ideologies, secular mentality and communistic approach, thinking about growth and development is a mirage. And I can assure all those who do thinking based on these old ideologies that it has no place in this fast changing environment.

Nelson Mandela took charge of South Africa as President in 1991 and subsequently Kofi Ananan took the charge of Secretary General of United Nations in 1997. It appeared that things will change overnight but nothing happened. No astronomical changes take place in society. The social changes have its own incubation period and it moves accordingly. Obama may just act as ingredients but certainly I have my own doubt if he could be more effective than George W Bush who from my point of view was the most successful and courageous leaders of the world in the recent human history because of solid backgrounds.

Up to some extent, I agree with the line Daniel has written in his blog and I quote, "Some commentators argue that Obama cannot make a real difference." I feel that Obama is a small fry in the wholeness of this game of democracy. The world is changing and the impact of Obama has certainly changed the face and confidence of governance. USA has won another battle of democracy along with wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Obama is the face of that win.

USA has proved its superiority and I do not mind to give credit to young and old Bush for this great display of democracy in the world. The people, leaders and nations will remember these changes for the years to come. Like Mr Daniel has analyzed, other researchers will keep doing research on the emergence and subsequent actions of Obama for the next 100 years to find the exact reason.

Obama win is euphoria for entire world and it will take some time to settle. But certainly he is going to show a different game to this world to prove his change concepts.

Other will get benifited with Obama, but Muslims will remain where they are today because of their own inertia.

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