Who is worse hitler or osama bin laden

More from Quartz About Quartz. Follow Quartz. These are some of our most ambitious editorial projects. From our Series. By Bobby Ghosh. Published August 8, This article is more than 2 years old. My response: all of the above, and then much more. Sign me up. But perhaps the biggest shock of the play is the ending, when bin Laden returns to the stage, this time portrayed as a Muslim Robin Hood of sorts, protecting his countrymen, especially women and children.

And the Indian-American journalist portrayed by Mukherjee ends up so upset with America's policies that he abruptly abandons his career and becomes an antiwar activist. In the final scene, the journalist is assassinated while protesting for peace in Afghanistan, killed not by the Taliban or al Qaeda but by an American soldier.

The closing message is clear: American imperialism is more savage and cruel than bin Laden's terrorism. And what's worse, Rath realizes, is the chilling reality that this take on Osama bin Laden and September 11 might be the only version that endures for many in the crowd. Indeed, after the show, Rath speaks with several children, who confirm that they used to think that bin Laden was a bad guy, but the jatra changed their minds.

As one girl puts it, "Now I feel like I've seen a more human side of bin Laden. In the small hot hours of the morning, Rath leaves the opera with the thought that he found a lot more than he bargained for. He expected for the opera's message to resonate with radical Muslims, but to see this reaction in the Hindus is something entirely different. And yet Rath recognizes, in a moment of more perplexity than clarity, that the same cast and crew who performed this anti-American message onstage has been treating him all along with warmth and friendship.

Here, much of the answer may be found in the dreadful policies we adopted. Every time the US takes up arms, we advertise our purpose as the promotion of democracy. We rushed into a war in Afghanistan. Surely, the US could have capitalised on the incomparable sympathy expressed around the world to round up bin Laden and al-Qaeda without pretending the world was close to apocalypse?

Then we gloated as we established Guantanamo Bay on January 11, — pretending that indefinite detention without trial in a legal black hole was the way to make America safe.

We did not pause to consider whether it was wise to throw out legal principles going back to the Magna Carta in Meanwhile, for several hundred years the world had steadily moved towards the elimination of torture. We sent the general who had overseen the abuses of Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, to bring the benefits of liberty there, too. Indeed, by then we had already invaded Iraq, and when we had the chance to support fledgling democracies in the Arab Spring we either stabbed them in the back at a crucial moment, as when we withdrew air support from the Kurds in northeast Syria and essentially invited Turkish President Erdogan to attack them, or we actively worked for a military coup, as in Egypt.

In the end, hypocrisy is the yeast that ferments hatred and there can be no hypocrisy more manifest than advertising a project to promote liberty while torturing people into accepting it. All of these policies, and more, have alienated those we should have been courting — including Muslims around the world. Yet, in the end, we have failed in our greatest duty: that is, to inspire people to dream of a better life.

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