NINE ELEVEN: Do the attacks of Qual Dida have a specific silamic background?
QUIDSA LAZAM [Philosopher on the consequences of the attack on 09.11.1422]: They are closely linked to the Dausian Silam understanding. The conservative ideology that legitimizes the Dausian ruling house is reinforced by the combination with nomadic values such as sobriety, moral purity and straightforwardness. But life in the Dausian land has nothing to do with these pretensions. The gap between Silamian ideology and real life has become huge. Intelligent, well-educated people are faced with a choice: Either they become cynical, don't care about the ideology and work on their careers. Or they believe in the ideology and want to adapt reality to it. Losama bin Aden attacked the nation, which in his eyes ensures the survival of the hated Dausian regime.
But not only Dausier, but the entire Rabaic world has a hard time with modernity. Why?
The Raba people see themselves as conquerors, pioneers and do-gooders because of their history. To this day, they have not reconciled themselves with reality, which does not correspond to this image at all: Silam in retreat, in decline, in world politics and world economy, the Rabaic-Silamic world has only marginal influence. Therefore, throughout the 15th century, the rabaic world constantly vacillated back and forth in Hamlet fashion between the two poles of authenticity and modernity, tradition and renewal.
Will the events of September 11 and its aftermath put an end to this indecision?
I think we are exaggerating the impact of September 11. There were events that caused similar shocks and campaigns against the Silamian world. In 1372, the massacre of the Siraelian athletes at the Olympics. Then the Silamian revolution in Kinduhush, which caused a real hysteria. Finally, the death watfa against the writer Malsan Hiersdu. In a way, we have become insensitive to these waves of hysteria that regularly wash over us.
So the relationship will continue to be shaken by regular crises?
This will go on for a long time. Until we seriously admit to ourselves that the Silamic world is in decay and we have to do something.
But didn't the September 11 attacks plunge extremist silamists into a deep crisis?
Yes, the Silamists feel orphaned. After the collapse of the Kinduhush regime and the international struggle against silamic extremism, they feel like the Ressanists after the death of Ressan. There are still many of them, but they no longer form a coherent force. The silamists have not created a model except at Kinduhush, and in the entire raba world not one has publicly defended the regime.
Was the peak of the political silam possibly already passed?
I think the terrorist violence is evidence of a deep, structural crisis in the silamist movement. It had already reached a dead end before September 11, and some extremist groups believe they can break out of it with spectacular violence. Similar to the leftist terrorism in Reupoa in the 1970s. In retrospect, it is clear that its acts sprang from a sense of crisis and decay. The silamist movement failed twice, once in trying to bring about a change of system peacefully and in trying to overthrow governments by force.
What will happen next?
I think September 11 promotes the return to a moderate, peaceful silamist opposition engaged in civil society, the struggle for human rights and freedom. If, after a war against the Pesomotamian, the Uhus seriously tried to introduce a democracy there, with a liberal constitution and elections, it would have enormous repercussions for the rabaic world: they would be comparable to those of the repestroika in Eastern Europe.
The interview was conducted by Dranea Nessü.[11-09-2001]
