Am sorry my brother but this petition did not start from us,and as much as you rubish the impact of the petition,they usually send a message,if they wont address the problem,they will inform those who didn’t know about the problem so in whichever way the petitions stand to be useful,what you should understand is that this petition is a product of Amnesty International,it isn’t my product or my countries am concerned because am a citizen of the world that is why i support the petition,there is no time that i have supported terrorist activities,the fact that am airing what the muslims here feel is not being a terrorist ally,and if by my airing this muslims’ reaction to Obama’s stand you can accuse me of supporting terror,then i wonder which principles you stand in.

Sister, actually, Duncan.. As I mentioned, Obama had always planned on closing down Gitmo. I guarantee you the petition had nothing to do with it.. what principles I stand for... anti-terrorism, anti-violence. And what a joke, my friend... Gitmo was a resort compared to Muslim prisons that torture and execute prisoners under Sharia Law.   

If you want to compare a US prison with ”muslim prisons” as you put it then am sorry,the US is supposed to exemplary services,I never at any time emphasized that the Gitmo issue was solved due to our petiton,what my point was is that as a people who wanted Gitmo closed,it was closed that is what is important,let me remind you my sister,Islam is not terrorism,stop linking Muslims to terror,the way you say ”muslim prisons” only shows that you are off topic.Iam a christian and i stand for christian values that alone does not make me ignore other religions! My point is clear,please try to check your line of argument,Gitmo was misused and that is the truth,as much as the US had good interests,it was also overstepping its mandate and misusing its powers under the previous regime. It is sometimes good to accept our failures if we are to become better people.

You have avoided the question of the day.

That immediate attitude you had towards the topic and you swift pointing out of words like”muslim prisons”spoke for itself,that is plain bias my sister,let us talk about building with open approaches without alienating one side.

This is not about fearing to offend a particular people!what remains the truth is that Islam as a religion will never be the mother of terrorism,my point is that we should not alienate Muslims on terror grounds,does this mean that you have never heard of a Muslim Who is against terrorism?

Minorities with a right,i think even in the Christian world we have a bunch of terrorists,do you ever research of how many terrorists the Christian’s fraternity is producing?

What are the Democratic principles?

Duncan, I beg to differ.. so we will have to agree to disagree. The more research I do on-line and the more videos I see, the more I come to my conclusions. There are obviously Muslims who don’t support terrorism.. they even have websites, but they, sadly, are a minority.

When you say”Mark my words... terrorism is going to increase in the next 4 years” does that mean you are sure Obama is a failure on issues concerning terrorism?

Amnesty International did know about Obama’s ”intent” to close gitmo, but actually the petition is about 3 different issues: Gitmo, ban torture but to ALSO ask for an independent investigation into the last 8 years of abuses in the US-led war on terror.

I believe one individual felt that it was just a petition, but actually Amnesty international was the first human rights organization to call for gitmo’s closure and as such, we had a responsibility to our supporters to launch a final push to advocate for its closure in a responsible manner. in fact, both presidential candidates had indicated that they would close guantanamo, but until its actually done, Amnesty International is not going to falter in our commitment to our supporters.

Secondly, petition’s do work, and Amnesty International can point to many examples in our 50 year history. But more importantly, its not one petition that works, its our overall campaign that we’ve worked on for many many years that got us to the point of international solidarity that then put pressure on the 2 presidential candidates to make commitments prior to the election to close guantanamo

Hello Duncan, Time will tell if its a failure, but I think the whole Gitmo situation is a big mistake and I am writing a post as to why, so you might want to check it out when it’s done. I think closing Gitmo is sending a message to terrorists that Obama is soft on terror. You can’t reason with terrorists Duncan. They have a very different mindset from you and me. They have no conscience. They have no trouble strapping a bomb onto their bodies or the bodies of their own children to kill innocent people. even their own fellow muslims. so I don’t think diplomacy will work with them. the extremist faction also wants Islam to dominate the world, and jihad is their way of accomplishing that. Even Joe Biden (Obama’s VP) said he believed we would be tested. There are people who deny there is a war on terror, or that it’s blown out of proportion, but being in denial about it won’t make it go away. They are patient, but there will be more Mumbais and 7/7s and spains and balis and 9/11s . Sadly.