Terror is often a weapon of those who lack other weapons, who believe their voices are not heard and whose desires go unrealized. It is a brutal and often counterproductive weapon to be sure, but a weapon of the weak nonetheless. To insist that terror stop prior to serious political engagement – as, for example, the Israelis often ask of the Palestinians – is to request the weaker party disarm in the face of the strong, when it is precisely the taking up of arms that drew attention and perhaps support to its cause.
For three decades 1970s - 1990s, The Palestinians' plea to the UN Security Council against Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity; the illegal deportation of Palestinian civilians, especially activists and protesters into Israeli prisons, the annexation of Palestinian territories via mass execution of total Palestinian townships, including hospitals, schools and demolition of factories, businesses and markets and illegal expansion of Israeli settlement on Palestinian territories, was met with utter callosity and disdain. After exhausting all legal avenues the Palestinians availed a resistance movement to secure their human rights and defend their country against an increasing occupation. The Palestinians want peace but the US allows the Israelis repress, persecute, plunder and murder Palestinians. Americans need only imagine how they would react if their country were subject to informal control from abroad – no doubt much as they reacted in 1776.
Despite being the most democratic and educated people on earth, the Palestinian people are unable to pursue a happy and peaceful live at home. Its not just Palestine, the entire Arab and the Muslim world is suffering a complex and an intense despotism and injustice.
Osama bin Laden date the beginning of hostilities differently from either the Americans or the Europeans. In a videotaped statement released on October 7, 2001, he declared that for over eighty years Islam had been tasting humiliation and contempt its sons killed, its blood shed, its holy places attacked. Eighty years has little resonance in the West , but it’s a references to the breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the ceding of the territories of the of caliphate to the control of the Western mandates and thereafter , in many cases, to regimes friendly to the West.
Middle Eastern countries are carved out by the US, the British, and the French in the interest of oil and global domination. So with the assistance of periphery leaders in the Muslim world and secret police they maintain an international hegemony. Take for example Iran, to reverse the nationalization of Iranian oil, the US derailed a republican and nationalist experiment in Iran by helping to overthrew the Mosaddeq government in a CIA-supported coup. The US then armed and supported the increasingly brutal rule of the shah of Iran as its policeman in the Persian Gulf. The Karzi government in Afghanistan is no different. Puppet President Karzi was hand picked by the United States and given a foreign bodyguard supplied by the US private military firm Dyncorp. US periphery regimes exist in all majority Muslim countries. Rulers from Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Egypt Iran, Bahrain, Yemen and Pakistan are all crowned by the US.
Muslims everywhere are unable to pursue an independent and free life because of US hostility to Islamic values. US believes that Islam will impede its reign over the world and so it wants to, with the help of the EU, control Muslim societies and politics at home and abroad.
Why is the US, and the rest of the world, so scared of Islam? From the 8th century, Islam produced the best of technology. architecture, classical scholarship, mathematics, chemistry, medicine, agriculture, philosophy, political, science, travel and literature. In fact, the West emerged as a civilization by interacting and assimilating crucially important Muslim sciences and inventions till the 1800s. Even today, Islam can help the US overcome its spiritual famine and moral degeneration. Most importantly Islam is a peaceful religion, medieval Islam allowed the Bamiyan Buddhas to survive at a time when the Christian world was burning people of all colours and religions on the stake. The Ottoman Empire and the Muslim kingdom of Spain were exemplars of toleration of diverse cultures and religions. Islam and US can coexist together. More US politicians and lobby groups should sit and think together about Islam, reading the Qur'an and cooperating with Muslims.
Sources: Globalization and War on Terror
Dedring, Jergen. The United Nations Security Council in the 1990s: Resurgence and Renewal. State University of New York Press, pg 35-59
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