As al-Qaeda threatens global reprisals for the death of its leader, Osama bin Laden, the Philippine government, itself battling an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist organization south of its border, is warning the nation to be on alert for potential terror attacks. And as Filipino Muslims sympathetic to bin Laden started staging protest rallies in Manila, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda, has issued an appeal worth emulating everywhere:
“It’s a war against terrorism and a warrior of terrorism is no respecter of persons. Bin Laden should pay for his misdeeds,” presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda told reporters in a briefing. “I appeal to our Muslim brothers and sisters to look at the consequences of bin Laden’s actions and not at his being a Muslim,” he said. “This terrorism affects our country as well and the entire globe. . . They should not base their judgment on his being a Muslim. Bin Laden had inflicted terrible suffering on the world.”
Hear! Hear!
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