- 20 Oct 2004, 19:19
#80
The West's Dirty War against Islam
We are in the middle of a titanic struggle between the racist,
violent, imperialist West and Islam. The West's crusade against Islam
is all encompassing, with many strands to it, but is ultimately a war
of ideology. Sometimes, this becomes obvious in the actions,
behaviour and comments of Western establishment's as is explained
below.
This war of ideology (a continuation of an age old conflict between
Islam and Christendom) was plotted and commenced not after 911 as some
naively believe, but after the demise of the Soviet Union and the
death of the ideology of communism. The West's Political ideology,
which they describe as capitalism (its interesting that people can
describe the pursuit of wealth as their way of life) was seen to have
become the only universal ideology and way of organising human affairs
and politics. Except that right at the heart of the world's greatest
reserves of natural resources and, religious (Palestine for Christians
and Jews) and geo- political centres a new movement was taking shape.
This was a revivalist Islamic movement that sought to replace the
West's puppet regimes in the region with a political order based on
Islam.
The West's viewed this development with alarm. They thought that they
had put Islam out of action for good with the final dismantling of
what was left of a decaying Uthmani Empire known as "Khilafah". But
Islam as a source of political power was on the rise again throughout
the 1980's and 1990's. Such a revival would end the West's unlicensed
plunder of Muslim wealth through its puppets regimes. And its
illegitimate offspring Israel felt particularly threatened.
The West now perceived a threat to its pursuit; or rather plunder of
the wealth of others, the very lifeline that feeds the myth of the
superiority of the Western political system. If Islamic political
orders were established and successful, as they might well be, it
would end the West's claim to the universality and the superiority of
their polity.
So they began plotting the demise of Islam itself. Except that there
was a problem. Islam was not a threat to the West as communism was.
There was no equivalent military might and nuclear weapons. There was
not even a movement of academics and intellectuals or activists
committed to an alternative Islamic Political Order. Sure there were
Muslim Missionaries, mainly trained in the American Islam that came
out of Saudi Occupied Arabia. But these were not the types that one
could class as a political challenge, in fact they were not even at
the political / intellectual level of Christian priests (most of those
now parading themselves as representatives of Muslims, and recognised
as such by Western Governments, are the products of this brand of
American Islam, and have grave difficulty in understanding Western
politics and policy). There was and is no intention on the part of
Muslims to impose their way of life or politics on others, and even
less to do this by force, unlike the West, which has its military
forces, occupying Muslim lands and imposing through violence their
politics on Muslims. There is simply the desire for freedom of Muslim
lands from occupation and puppet regimes and the right to Islamic
self-determination.
So began the manufacture of "The Green Peril", an Islamic Threat that
would have to be hyped up into a gigantic enemy on the scale of the
Communist or fascist threat to Europe. The key to the manufacture of
this threat was lies and black propaganda, just as we saw against the
Soviet Union and communism. Of course the lies had to be greater and
bigger, the propaganda better and more sophisticated, to convince
sceptical Western public opinions and audiences. The role of the
media was crucial, as was the role of think tanks, university
departments, academics and "terrorism experts" and "specialists" and
government policy makers. Just as under communism the CIA funded such
cultural and intellectual activity, so too somewhere along the line
the intelligence agencies of the three key architects of the Crusade,
Israel, Britain and the United States have been, and are, intimately
involved.
So now local American sponsored thugs like Saddam (compared to the
real Western international criminals and gangsters who backed him)
were re-branded as equivalent to Hitler. This was deliberate, so that
an invalid and military decapitated state was presented to the public
as an equivalent to the military might of the Third Reich. The height
of this nonsense was the notion that Saddam, like the Soviet Union,
could hit Britain with any type of weapons within 45 minutes. How the
media or the British public or politicians could even contemplate such
nonsense as reality is beyond rational comprehension.
Rogue States (Muslim States) instead of Communist Sates were now a
threat to the West. They, like the states that promoted the ideology
of communism were now the source of all evil, redefined as the "Axis
of Evil". They had to be taken out. The difference here was the
Communist States had strong military machines, so the West was not
courageous enough to take them on militarily. Nor could they do so for
risk of another European instigated World War. The Rogue Sates, on
the other hand are weak militarily, and their inhabitants are non-
white Europeans and Muslims who can be slaughtered mercilessly without
much fuss from Europeans. The manufacture of fear is another key
ingredient in this War on Islam. Western peoples have to be so
frightened of the threat and consequences of "Islamic Terror" that
they will support mass-murder of Muslims in "Rogue Sates".
This process of acclimatizing world opinion to the threat of
"international terrorism" also occurred through a stream of Hollywood
movies, where uncannily even the events of 911 have been rehearsed, as
well as the post 911 internment of Muslims in cages (in such movies as
the Siege).
The media, crusading politicians, and think tanks have worked hand in
glove to manufacture this Soviet style threat. Note the language that
they, including Bush and Blair, use. It is straight out of the anti-
communist handbook:-Third World War, Dirty Bombs, Axis of Evil, a
threat equivalent to the Second World War, Islamic Ideology like
Communism is described as totalitarian, the West's crusade is a war
for freedom against tyranny. They use the human rights and freedom
argument as they did against the Soviet Union, but conveniently
disregard the greater human rights abuses that they and their "Muslim"
poodles engage in. Israel's record on human rights is never on
judgement, or that of the Russians in Chechnya, or the US in Iraq. The
West was under threat from the communist threat to "our way of life",
now note how many times since 911 the argument that these "terrorists"
do not have a cause or political goals "they are out to destroy our
way of life" is used. The West was also under threat from nuclear
weapons at the hands of Communists; now the threat comes from
Islamists armed with WMD and Dirty Bombs.
The arrests of some 700 Muslims in the UK has only produced fabulous
James Bond style Hollywood plots, fed to and deliberately published by
the media to reinforce the myth and manufacture fear. The most recent
being a young Muslim IT professional who was supposedly trying to
"take out" a US navy ship. They have even found a Hollywood style
villain in Abu Hamza the perfect Dr. Evil, with tentacles spreading
throughout Europe and America. Other Sheikhs have also been identified
that fit the Hollywood villain bill. Yet, so far no evidence has been
produced of any Al–Qaeda organisation or activity in the UK. Despite
all the stories and arrests more non-Muslims have been convicted of
terrorism, than Muslims. But the aim was not necessarily to convict,
but to create myths and fear, which then can be used to wage more wars
and introduce more laws to counter a virtually non-existent "Islamic
threat" and to defeat Islam itself.
Today's policies are similar to the cold war days, except multiplied
tenfold. Monitoring of Muslims at Universities, bans and closures of
Muslim organisations, letters to mosques, surveillance, and witch-
hunts. Even, a Home Office booklet sent to every home in the UK
warning of the dangers of "Islamist" terrorist strikes. The last time
this was done was during the Cold War in 1980 when every home was also
sent a booklet about the threat of a nuclear strike by the Soviet
Union. Now we are into the realm not of myth but pure fantasy. There
is it appears this almighty Islamic enemy equivalent in military might
to the Soviet Union (in reality there is not even the equivalent of an
IRA military structure). The United Nations too falls in line. An
institution whose remit is to deal with matters between national
states now regularly passes resolutions against a mythical nation
called "International Islamic Terrorism", that threatens the world,
and thus international disputes, civil wars and disputes between
indigenous peoples are conveniently glossed over under the label "war
on terror".
Central to this new cold war has been the media, and in particular the
BBC, which prides itself on being a public service broadcaster of
great impartiality and balance but often behaves as little more than a
British Propaganda Corporation. Since 911 it has helped to shape the
new cold war myth in its numerous debates and reports from security
and terrorism "experts". It has given free and unchallenged coverage
to those policymakers, politicians and think tanks of what can only be
described as warmongers (Richard Perle, David Frum, Elliot Cohen etc.)
. It has rarely counterbalanced their views on how to deal with the
Islamic world, with those who support an alternative strategy. Or even
as a minimum with Muslims who understand this agenda and can
articulate another view. It has gone farther and produced a string of
documentaries/drama's about this new threat. Earlier this year there
was a series called the "Third World War" exposing an international
network of Islamic terrorism which is now seen as the third World War.
Then there was a drama about the intelligence services and suicide
bombers in Birmingham. The BCC Drama "Dirty War" on Sunday 26
September was pure propaganda. The drama was about a fictional plot
to use a dirty bomb in the UK by Muslims. It was designed to create
fear. Broadcast at peak time, subtitles appeared on screen to inform
viewers that the news had been delayed by 30 minutes because of this
programme, something that usually happens when a real event takes
place. Then, based on this fictional drama, as if to convince the
public the threat was genuine and almost as if the event had happened,
after the news there was a special programme, with a studio audience
and expert guests to discuss if Britain was prepared for such an
attack. The Muslim Council of Britain guest on the panel supported
the BBC drama thus showing his total lack of ability to understand the
BBC agenda and represent Muslims.
We are in the middle the West's "Dirtiest War" against Islam. We can
expect more media propaganda and spectacular lies. When Joseph
Goebbels was appointed Hitlers Minister for Popular Enlightenment and
became one of the great propaganda exponents he said: "if you tell
people a big lie they are more likely to believe it than if you tell
them a little lie". Today, Western politicians and the media have
surpassed the efforts of both Hitler and the Soviet Union in black
propaganda. The West's aim is now to defeat Islam, as they tried to
defeat Communism.
However the arrogant West is in for a surprise. Despite all their
efforts and policies to defeat the Soviet Union, their experts could
not even predict the demise of the Soviet Union. It was a Muslim that
predicted its demise. The Soviet Union and Communism were defeated in
Afghanistan, where the Mujahideen destroyed the myth of the
invincibility of the Red Army. The US and its political system, by
invading Iraq at the heart of the Muslim world has entered its own
graveyard, just like the Soviet Union did in Afghanistan. They can
tell as many lies as they wish to their public, just as the Soviet
Union did, but ultimately all their lies will be unravelled, including
the greatest lie of them all –the myth of US invincibility and the
superiority of its values and political order.
Jahangir Mohammed is Director of the Centre for Muslim Affairs and
author of "The Final Crusade Against Islam" published soon after 911.
We are in the middle of a titanic struggle between the racist,
violent, imperialist West and Islam. The West's crusade against Islam
is all encompassing, with many strands to it, but is ultimately a war
of ideology. Sometimes, this becomes obvious in the actions,
behaviour and comments of Western establishment's as is explained
below.
This war of ideology (a continuation of an age old conflict between
Islam and Christendom) was plotted and commenced not after 911 as some
naively believe, but after the demise of the Soviet Union and the
death of the ideology of communism. The West's Political ideology,
which they describe as capitalism (its interesting that people can
describe the pursuit of wealth as their way of life) was seen to have
become the only universal ideology and way of organising human affairs
and politics. Except that right at the heart of the world's greatest
reserves of natural resources and, religious (Palestine for Christians
and Jews) and geo- political centres a new movement was taking shape.
This was a revivalist Islamic movement that sought to replace the
West's puppet regimes in the region with a political order based on
Islam.
The West's viewed this development with alarm. They thought that they
had put Islam out of action for good with the final dismantling of
what was left of a decaying Uthmani Empire known as "Khilafah". But
Islam as a source of political power was on the rise again throughout
the 1980's and 1990's. Such a revival would end the West's unlicensed
plunder of Muslim wealth through its puppets regimes. And its
illegitimate offspring Israel felt particularly threatened.
The West now perceived a threat to its pursuit; or rather plunder of
the wealth of others, the very lifeline that feeds the myth of the
superiority of the Western political system. If Islamic political
orders were established and successful, as they might well be, it
would end the West's claim to the universality and the superiority of
their polity.
So they began plotting the demise of Islam itself. Except that there
was a problem. Islam was not a threat to the West as communism was.
There was no equivalent military might and nuclear weapons. There was
not even a movement of academics and intellectuals or activists
committed to an alternative Islamic Political Order. Sure there were
Muslim Missionaries, mainly trained in the American Islam that came
out of Saudi Occupied Arabia. But these were not the types that one
could class as a political challenge, in fact they were not even at
the political / intellectual level of Christian priests (most of those
now parading themselves as representatives of Muslims, and recognised
as such by Western Governments, are the products of this brand of
American Islam, and have grave difficulty in understanding Western
politics and policy). There was and is no intention on the part of
Muslims to impose their way of life or politics on others, and even
less to do this by force, unlike the West, which has its military
forces, occupying Muslim lands and imposing through violence their
politics on Muslims. There is simply the desire for freedom of Muslim
lands from occupation and puppet regimes and the right to Islamic
self-determination.
So began the manufacture of "The Green Peril", an Islamic Threat that
would have to be hyped up into a gigantic enemy on the scale of the
Communist or fascist threat to Europe. The key to the manufacture of
this threat was lies and black propaganda, just as we saw against the
Soviet Union and communism. Of course the lies had to be greater and
bigger, the propaganda better and more sophisticated, to convince
sceptical Western public opinions and audiences. The role of the
media was crucial, as was the role of think tanks, university
departments, academics and "terrorism experts" and "specialists" and
government policy makers. Just as under communism the CIA funded such
cultural and intellectual activity, so too somewhere along the line
the intelligence agencies of the three key architects of the Crusade,
Israel, Britain and the United States have been, and are, intimately
involved.
So now local American sponsored thugs like Saddam (compared to the
real Western international criminals and gangsters who backed him)
were re-branded as equivalent to Hitler. This was deliberate, so that
an invalid and military decapitated state was presented to the public
as an equivalent to the military might of the Third Reich. The height
of this nonsense was the notion that Saddam, like the Soviet Union,
could hit Britain with any type of weapons within 45 minutes. How the
media or the British public or politicians could even contemplate such
nonsense as reality is beyond rational comprehension.
Rogue States (Muslim States) instead of Communist Sates were now a
threat to the West. They, like the states that promoted the ideology
of communism were now the source of all evil, redefined as the "Axis
of Evil". They had to be taken out. The difference here was the
Communist States had strong military machines, so the West was not
courageous enough to take them on militarily. Nor could they do so for
risk of another European instigated World War. The Rogue Sates, on
the other hand are weak militarily, and their inhabitants are non-
white Europeans and Muslims who can be slaughtered mercilessly without
much fuss from Europeans. The manufacture of fear is another key
ingredient in this War on Islam. Western peoples have to be so
frightened of the threat and consequences of "Islamic Terror" that
they will support mass-murder of Muslims in "Rogue Sates".
This process of acclimatizing world opinion to the threat of
"international terrorism" also occurred through a stream of Hollywood
movies, where uncannily even the events of 911 have been rehearsed, as
well as the post 911 internment of Muslims in cages (in such movies as
the Siege).
The media, crusading politicians, and think tanks have worked hand in
glove to manufacture this Soviet style threat. Note the language that
they, including Bush and Blair, use. It is straight out of the anti-
communist handbook:-Third World War, Dirty Bombs, Axis of Evil, a
threat equivalent to the Second World War, Islamic Ideology like
Communism is described as totalitarian, the West's crusade is a war
for freedom against tyranny. They use the human rights and freedom
argument as they did against the Soviet Union, but conveniently
disregard the greater human rights abuses that they and their "Muslim"
poodles engage in. Israel's record on human rights is never on
judgement, or that of the Russians in Chechnya, or the US in Iraq. The
West was under threat from the communist threat to "our way of life",
now note how many times since 911 the argument that these "terrorists"
do not have a cause or political goals "they are out to destroy our
way of life" is used. The West was also under threat from nuclear
weapons at the hands of Communists; now the threat comes from
Islamists armed with WMD and Dirty Bombs.
The arrests of some 700 Muslims in the UK has only produced fabulous
James Bond style Hollywood plots, fed to and deliberately published by
the media to reinforce the myth and manufacture fear. The most recent
being a young Muslim IT professional who was supposedly trying to
"take out" a US navy ship. They have even found a Hollywood style
villain in Abu Hamza the perfect Dr. Evil, with tentacles spreading
throughout Europe and America. Other Sheikhs have also been identified
that fit the Hollywood villain bill. Yet, so far no evidence has been
produced of any Al–Qaeda organisation or activity in the UK. Despite
all the stories and arrests more non-Muslims have been convicted of
terrorism, than Muslims. But the aim was not necessarily to convict,
but to create myths and fear, which then can be used to wage more wars
and introduce more laws to counter a virtually non-existent "Islamic
threat" and to defeat Islam itself.
Today's policies are similar to the cold war days, except multiplied
tenfold. Monitoring of Muslims at Universities, bans and closures of
Muslim organisations, letters to mosques, surveillance, and witch-
hunts. Even, a Home Office booklet sent to every home in the UK
warning of the dangers of "Islamist" terrorist strikes. The last time
this was done was during the Cold War in 1980 when every home was also
sent a booklet about the threat of a nuclear strike by the Soviet
Union. Now we are into the realm not of myth but pure fantasy. There
is it appears this almighty Islamic enemy equivalent in military might
to the Soviet Union (in reality there is not even the equivalent of an
IRA military structure). The United Nations too falls in line. An
institution whose remit is to deal with matters between national
states now regularly passes resolutions against a mythical nation
called "International Islamic Terrorism", that threatens the world,
and thus international disputes, civil wars and disputes between
indigenous peoples are conveniently glossed over under the label "war
on terror".
Central to this new cold war has been the media, and in particular the
BBC, which prides itself on being a public service broadcaster of
great impartiality and balance but often behaves as little more than a
British Propaganda Corporation. Since 911 it has helped to shape the
new cold war myth in its numerous debates and reports from security
and terrorism "experts". It has given free and unchallenged coverage
to those policymakers, politicians and think tanks of what can only be
described as warmongers (Richard Perle, David Frum, Elliot Cohen etc.)
. It has rarely counterbalanced their views on how to deal with the
Islamic world, with those who support an alternative strategy. Or even
as a minimum with Muslims who understand this agenda and can
articulate another view. It has gone farther and produced a string of
documentaries/drama's about this new threat. Earlier this year there
was a series called the "Third World War" exposing an international
network of Islamic terrorism which is now seen as the third World War.
Then there was a drama about the intelligence services and suicide
bombers in Birmingham. The BCC Drama "Dirty War" on Sunday 26
September was pure propaganda. The drama was about a fictional plot
to use a dirty bomb in the UK by Muslims. It was designed to create
fear. Broadcast at peak time, subtitles appeared on screen to inform
viewers that the news had been delayed by 30 minutes because of this
programme, something that usually happens when a real event takes
place. Then, based on this fictional drama, as if to convince the
public the threat was genuine and almost as if the event had happened,
after the news there was a special programme, with a studio audience
and expert guests to discuss if Britain was prepared for such an
attack. The Muslim Council of Britain guest on the panel supported
the BBC drama thus showing his total lack of ability to understand the
BBC agenda and represent Muslims.
We are in the middle the West's "Dirtiest War" against Islam. We can
expect more media propaganda and spectacular lies. When Joseph
Goebbels was appointed Hitlers Minister for Popular Enlightenment and
became one of the great propaganda exponents he said: "if you tell
people a big lie they are more likely to believe it than if you tell
them a little lie". Today, Western politicians and the media have
surpassed the efforts of both Hitler and the Soviet Union in black
propaganda. The West's aim is now to defeat Islam, as they tried to
defeat Communism.
However the arrogant West is in for a surprise. Despite all their
efforts and policies to defeat the Soviet Union, their experts could
not even predict the demise of the Soviet Union. It was a Muslim that
predicted its demise. The Soviet Union and Communism were defeated in
Afghanistan, where the Mujahideen destroyed the myth of the
invincibility of the Red Army. The US and its political system, by
invading Iraq at the heart of the Muslim world has entered its own
graveyard, just like the Soviet Union did in Afghanistan. They can
tell as many lies as they wish to their public, just as the Soviet
Union did, but ultimately all their lies will be unravelled, including
the greatest lie of them all –the myth of US invincibility and the
superiority of its values and political order.
Jahangir Mohammed is Director of the Centre for Muslim Affairs and
author of "The Final Crusade Against Islam" published soon after 911.
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