While saying, “Justice has been served,” Obama mentioned that both during Bush administration and his administration, this war has never been against Islam and Muslims, but against the Al-Qaeda terror network. We wonder if the killing of Bin Laden will reverse the effects of the ongoing tendency of Islamophobia and alienation of Muslims in Europe and US. There are serious doubts on this issue. The discrimination, marginalization and alienation towards Muslims in Europe reach to racial proportions. Enmity towards migrants and Islamophobia spans a wider touch on political parties, law, and daily life and being practiced. It is not much different in the US; Islam is still being coded with terrorism and fundamentalism. Justice will only be served if human tragedies experienced worldwide on the grounds of wars, invasions, alienations, and Islamophobia are over; the mission will be accomplished only then. However, I do not believe that the killing of Bin Ladin will form a positive breaking point for the recent rise in the Islamophobic tendencies and reactions developed (sometimes to the extent of racism) against multiculturalism. It will not be easy to break the relationship of causality which has been placed in the recent years between the Al Qaeda and Islam; unless an accomplishment will not be made in this field, justice will never be served.

One cannot doubt that the killing of Bin Laden dealt a massive blow to the Al-Qaeda of his leadership. However, will this blow lead to seriously weakening the network? It is yet not easy to say ‘yes’ in reply. Al-Qaeda is a horizontally organized, cellular and networked organization. Even if some cells in this structure were caught, bin Laden had always been elusive, and in the last decade, the organization gained strength. Would killing of their leader today finish an organizational structure resembling companies operating globally? This seems so difficult. Osama bin Ladin had become a ‘symbol’ in the Al-Qaeda which gained strength as organized around cells. What will determine about the weakening of the Al-Qaeda will not be the death of Bin Ladin, but the strengthening and materialization of the Arab Spring and the clarion call of democracy in the Middle East. At this junction, Turkey has to shoulder responsibility as a role model. Undoubtedly, it is to the extent that it patches up with the deficiencies of democracy within itself and that it poses a strong attitude against divisive tendencies.

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