The Manufacturing of Muslim Terrorists
December 1st, 2009Introduction:
One of the twentieth century worst fears that haunts people from big cities to small towns, walking down the streets or taking a bus, traveling by airplanes or by ships, doing their work or resting in a hotel, visiting a new country or volunteering to help the poor in another country is the fear of a terrorist attack by young Muslim men.
These terrorist attacks have indiscriminately killed and injured thousands of innocent people around the world in Arab and non Arab countries. The attacks have become extremely violent and cruel in a way that threatened the world national security and provoked governments around the world to take hard security measures on traveling and even to invade and occupy other countries in a hopeless attempt to prevent these attacks before they happen. Nevertheless, the attacks continue to happen in astonishing unexpected ways. The last of which was the attack at Texas Army Base in the US by Malik Nadal Hasan, 39, a military mental health Muslim doctor who killed 12 American fellow soldiers with two guns. The examples of terrorist attacks conducted by young Muslim men are many, maybe the most famous and bloodiest of which is the attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center where three thousand people were killed. According to the investigations, 19 young Arab Muslim men belong to Al-Qaeda Terrorist Organization were believed to have planned and conducted the attack.
Those very incidents should make us, instead of cursing and hating Islam and Muslims ask why would those Muslim Arab young men kill themselves and kill others in such barbarous way even though Islam prohibited the killing of one’s self and others specially the innocent civilians. They must have strong motivation to do this and there must be people that plan, recruit and fund terrorism.
The motivation in my opinion can be categorized into three elements. The first element is the US foreign policy in the Arab and Islamic world. The Second is the tyrant ruling regimes in the Arab world, their failure to provide a good welfare life to their citizenry and the West support for these regimes. The third element is the Israeli occupation of Palestine and its daily atrocities against the Palestinians.
The people who by means of deception and mind-playing recruit young Muslim men and give them orders to commit crimes against guiltless people are seeking power. The question is if those fundamental Islamists came to power, how would the situation be in the Arab world? So far we have two examples of governments run by Muslim fundamentalists, the first is in Iran and the second is in Gaza Strip. In both cases the people of Iran and Gaza Strip are suffering from very poor economies. In both cases the government is practicing oppression and repression against the people for the sake of staying in power and the people are not satisfied in both Iran and Gaza Strip. The people in the rest of the Arab and Islamic world are not satisfied with the performance of the secular ruling regimes either and there is no alternative so far to these two evils. So what shall the people in the Arab and Islamic world do?
Maybe if we eliminate the above mentioned three elements of motivation. The problem of terrorism will have no reason to exist and the Arab and Muslim peoples will live happily ever after. But is this possible? Let us now examine with more details the three elements of motivation and see if they can be eliminated!
A- The US foreign policy in the Arab and Islamic world after the USSR collapse.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, a group of far-right neoconservatives thinkers from the republican American party decided that America become a hegemony that no other country can stand to be its rival.
Among the neoconservatives that draw the broad lines of the US post cold war foreign policy was Paul Wolfowitz. As he was serving as an under secretary of defense for policy in the George H.W.Bush administration Wolfowits was assigned the task to draft a strategy for the US national security. The plan was radical in its essence and it still influences the US foreign policy in the world. It was called “Defense Planning Guidance” or the “Wolfowitz doctrine”
The Principles of the doctrine
1- The number one objective of U.S. post-Cold War political and military strategy should be preventing the emergence of a rival superpower.
Excerpt “Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power. These regions include Western Europe, East Asia, the territory of the former Soviet Union, and Southwest Asia.”
2- U.S. primacy
The doctrine establishes the U.S as the sole leader of the new world order.
Excerpt “The U.S. must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests. We must maintain the mechanism for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.”
3- If necessary, the United States must be prepared to take unilateral action.
Excerpt “the sense that the world order is ultimately backed by the U.S.” and that “the United States should be postured to act independently when collective action cannot be orchestrated”
4- The US and its western allies must ensure access and dominance over the Middle East and South Asia oil.
The doctrine clarified the strategic value of the Middle East and Southwest Asia. Excerpt “In the Middle East and Southwest Asia, our overall objective is to remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region’s oil.”
Paul wolfowitz is a leading neoconservative in the American Republican Party and he believed that the US must reconsider its commitments towards the international agreements, the international law and the interntional institutions like the UN and must act unilaterally to become a hegemony. This kind of thinking is a typical example of the realist trend in world politics. John Mearsheimer, a prominent realist and international relations theorist said that the state ultimate goal is to be a hegemon.
When Bill clinton came to power and Walfowitz was out of office. He associated along with other neoconservatives in the Project for the New American Century
( PNAC) which prodcued a 90 page report entiteld Rebuilding America’s Defenses
Principles and aims of the project:
The founders of the project complained about the steep decline in US spending on defense specially during the Clinton’s adminsitrations. In page 72 The Rebuilding America’s Defenses report states” If defense spending remains at current levels, U.S. forces will soon be too old or too small.”
It was very hard to get the American congress to increase the defense budget to a skyrocketing levels unless there was a catastroph like a new pearl harbor. In page 51 of the report this was clearly stated ” Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor.”
The report also advocated the redeployment of U.S. troops in permanent bases in strategic locations throughout the world where they can be ready to act to protect U.S. interests abroad.
When George.W. Bush came to power in 2001 he appointed in his adminstration the most neoconservative figures in the Repblican Party like Dick Cheney as Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld as Secrertay Of Defense and Paul Walfowits as Deputy Secretary of Defense who gave life to the “Walfowitz doctrine” and put into practice benefitting from the September 11 attacks which served as the required catastroph to get the American congress magnify the defense budget. According to the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, the US militray spending incerased from 298.4 billion dollars in 1999 to 400 billion dollars in 2000 because the Bush’s administrations decided to stage a war on “terror” and as the war continued the defense budget continued to bulge. In 2008 the defense budget was 700 billions dollars according to the same center and this was of course at the expense of heath, social services and public education in America.
The September 11 attacks were used by Bush’s administration as a pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.
How did this happen?
It was natutal that every body in America feels angry, terrified and revengeful after the disasterous attacks on the World Trade Center and those feelings were quickly directed to the Muslim world because the investigations assumed that the perpetrators were Muslims. The feeling of fear and revenge was used to get the US public to support the war on Afghanistan and Iraq or the so called “war on terror”. The incitment of fear among the US people was the top priority of the US media and officials. The people were pushed to believe that the terrorist attacks can happen to them any time any where and that Muslims are their worst enemies. Levels of risk of potential terrorist attacks were given colors, blue, yellow, orange and red. Fear was widely spread and it provided the people’ support to bring to action the neoconservatives preput agenda. “A world domination ”
In one of his post 9/11 attacks statements. President George. W.Bush said: ” we must transfer the battle to the enemy’s ground and confront the threats before they come out”
The US led its allies to invade Afghanistan where it said the Muslim terrorists are maid and nurtured by Taliban Regime and Al-Qaeda organization. Tons of explosives were dropped by the US and its allies warplanes on the poor villages of Afghanistan and thousands of Muslim civilians were killed. Then a ground offensive was launched by the US and British troops to attack the terrorist strongholds of Taliban and Al Qaeda. Even though the US and the British troops are militarily superior, they couldn’t register a triumph over the armed groups of Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghnistan and attacks against the American and the British occupation forces continued to kill scores of them in a non-stop war of depletion.
Despite the failure in Afghanistan. The neoconservatives’ plan stated in the Wolfowitz doctrine had to be continued. Paul Wolfowitz believed that it was a mistake by the US when it didn’t topple Sadam Regime in its war on Iraq in the early 90s and this mistake was to be rectified under the Bush administration. Even though there was no evidence that Iraq or its citizens were involved in the Attacks of 9/11 or any other terrorist attacks against western targets. The united states despite the opposition of the security council and most of the UN member states unilaterally staged a war on Iraq in 2003 and this was of course in complaince with the Walfowitz’s doctrine that preached the US dominance over the oil resources and in a blatant violation to the UN charter, articles 39, 41, 42 and 51. The pretext that the US used to justify its war on Iraq before the UN and the world is that the Iraqi regime possesses Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and even on the way to possess nuclear weapons!
Before the second war on it, Iraq suffered international sanctions of a chocking economic siege for more than 12 years ahead of its invasion of Kuwait, could hardly provide food or clean water for its people, had its infrastructure completely destroyed in the world colaition war on it, couldn’t import or export any thing without the permision of the countries that imposed the siege on it, the US is a prominent one of them of course, in some cases it couldn’t even import children milk powder because it it contains phosphate and it is possible to be used in making bombs!. 500 thousand Iraqi children died as a direct result of the siege. All that didn’t matter and the United States went on waging the war on Iraq and the suffering of the Iraqi people doubled tragically as a result of the war. A report published in January 28, 2008, by ORB (Opinion Research Business) revealed that 1,033,000 were killed since the US-led invasion of Iraq. Millions of Iraqis lost their homes and became refugees in neighboring countries. All aspects of life in Iraq debilitated after the war and there was no trace of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq according to the investigations conducted after Sadam’s regime collapse! When the Arab people witness the US savageness and mercilessness in dealing with a neighboring Arab country, of course they develop feelings of hate, anger and spite against it and against the countries that support its positions or cooperate with it. Those feelings develop later into extreme actions packed with the same savagness and mercilessness that the US showed in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What were the real reasons the US wanted to invade Iraq?
B- The secular tyrant ruling regimes in the Arab world and their failure to provide a good welfare life to their citizenry and the West support to these regimes fueled Muslim Fundamentalism and Terrorism.
Islam is the solution. This is the slogan that the Islamic movements trumpet referring to the deteriorating economic and social situation in the Islamic and Arab world, the overwhelming feeling of defeat that the Arab secular regimes sustained in their wars against Israel and to the secular ruling Arab elites who estranged Islam from daily life and replaced with western patterns of life alien to Arab people’s culture and traditions. Those pro-west elites also refuse to take strong stands against Israel despite its occupation of Palestine and its daily aggressions against the Palestinians because this would displease the pro-Israel western countries specially the US furthering by this their peoples’ feeling of anger and frustration. In addition, they don’t allow industrializing the Arab countries under their rule except for a few industries because the raw materials have to be sold to the Western countries for cheap prices, and the revenues, most of them, must go to the regimes’ incumbents leaving the majority of their peoples live in acute poverty. Even the agricultural sector in the Arab world is controlled by the west. Some Arab countries can not grow their most needed crops because the corrupt ruling elites are under pressure to continue to import the agricultural commodities from Europe and the US specially wheat and other grain crops even though the Arab countries have the land and the human resources to grow the crops they need and be self-sufficient. And even though this kind of policy comes at the expense of the Arab farmers who had to leave their land and look for other kinds of work to support themselves since the local market is filled with European and American grown crops. In a situation like this, and because of the absence of an alternative to the Arab despotic regimes. A lot found salvation in religion.
65 million Arabs live in severe poverty according to The United Nation Development Program report for 2009. The high rate of poverty and unemployment among the vast majority of the Arab young men besides their feeling of frustration and anger towards the ruling regimes that practise all forms of oppression and repression against the citizens in the Arab world made them utterly vulnerable to the call made by the Islamic fanatic leaders to join their ranks. The Islamic movement made use of the debilitating economic situation in the Arab countries and established a giant network of charity and educational societies that provide provisions to the poor and education to their children to win the peoples’ hearts and minds. The horrendous numbers of unemployed young men found refuge in the Islamic groups from the tormenting destitution and the unknown future that is void of any sense of security or hope.
The Fundamental Islamic movements could recruit large numbers of those young people, fueled them with feelings of hate and anger against any thing that is not part of them, carefully selected Islamic texts that prove their righteousness as opposed to the wrongness of their opposites and taught them to these recruits out of their context. If any of the recruits ventured to debate or question the actions and thoughts of the movement or the group, it will be considered an act of evil and disloyalty and deadly punishment is the deserved answer. Along with the punishment, there are also physical rewards for loyalty and obedience. Usually those Islamic fundamental groups have no financial problems; money is channeled to them abundantly from unknown sources. This money is lavished upon the recruits and their Imams. So joining one of these Islamic groups turns in so many cases as a way of earning a living beside being a way of releasing frustration and anger.
Hasan Al- Banna
One of the most prominent and widely spread Islamic movements in the Arab and Islamic world is the Muslim Brotherhood Movement founded by Hasan Al- Banna in 1929. Hasan Al-Banna could by social activity attract hundreds of members in Egypt from the middle and trodden lower classes. Even though Hasan Al-Banna adopted a pacifist approach in extending his message and thought about Islam and in bringing more recruits to his movement. His vision on the rule of Jihad for the ummah (Muslim community) was extreme and violent he said, “Jihad in its literal significance means to put forth one’s maximal effort in word and deed; in the Sacred Law it is the slaying of the unbelievers, and related connotations such as beating them, plundering their wealth, destroying their shrines, and smashing their idols.” and “it is obligatory on us to begin fighting with them after transmitting the invitation to embrace Islam, even if they do not fight against us.”.
Sayyid Qutb
Another Islamic thinker that has greatly influneced the Muslim brotherhood movement was sayyid Qutb who was executed by Jamal Abdul Nasser’s government in 1966. He visited the united states of America in 1948 for higher studies and there he grew an anti western attitude as he was extremely critical of many things in the United States: its materialism, individual freedoms, economic system, racism, brutal boxing matches, poor haircuts, triviality, restrictions on divorce, enthusiasm for sports, animal-like mixing of the sexes (which went on even in churches) and lack of support for the Palestinian struggle.
In his book Ma’alim fi-l-Tariq book ( milestones) he argued that anything non-Islamic was evil and corrupt, while following Sharia as a complete system extending into all aspects of life, would bring every kind of benefit to humanity. To him the then secular ruling regime was non-islamic and therefore must be eliminated and replaced with an Islamic one. To do this he preached offensive jihad. That’s why he was imprisoned and sentenced to death.
The Muslim brotherhood subdivides into violent groups
The Muslim brotherhood movement continued to grow and expand through the Islamic world until it became the largest Islamic movements in the Islmic world with huge financial resources. Its members are numbered in thousands and its ideology is traveling everywhere and new members are remotely recruited every day by means of technology consitituting new Islamic sub-groups that adopt violent offensive methods as its strategy like Islamic Jihad, Al-Jama’a Al-Islamiyya( Islamic group) and Al-Qaeda.
Ayman Al-Zawahri, a former member in the Muslim Brotherhood, the number two wanted terrorist by the US administration after Osama Bin Laden and the real brain of Al-Qaeda. In a televised interview published by Al- Sahab Media Al Zawahri said. ” There is no difference in Shari’a between a soldier and a civilian. The shari’a divides people into combatant and non-combatants. And the combatant is any one who helps in the fight with his body or wealth or opinion. According to this criterion, the people of the west are combatants because they chose their leaders who draw the policies which murder our children, occupy our countries and plunder our treasures”
Earlier in 1998 Ayman Al-Zawahri issued a joined fatwa with Osama Bin Laden under the title ” World Islamic Front Against Jews And Crusaders” The Fatwa says: In accord with the words of Almighty, fight the pagans all together like they fight you all together and fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression and there prevails justice and faith in Allah”
Distorted mentality and the lust after power distorted Islam’s true image
With this distorted mentality and understanding of Islam, those Muslim extremists like Ayman Al-Zawahri and his alike distorted the true fine image of Islam which by command prohibited the very things they do against the civilians. God said in the holy Quran: ” Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for Allah loves not transgressors” ( Surah2.190). He also said ” And help each other in righteousness and piety, and help not one another in sin and transgression and remain fearing Allah” (Surah 5.2) This is an order from God for Muslims not to commit any hostile act even as they are fighting on the battle land by this God refers to the civilians who are not soldiers or aggressors. Prophet Mohammed peace be upon him gave further explanation and said to his fellows as they were going to fight in one of the battles ” Do not kill women or children or an aged, infirm person. Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees. Do not destroy an inhabited place. Do not slaughter sheep or camels except for food. Do not burn bees and do not scatter them.”. The sayings of Prophet Mohammed and the words of God in the holy Quran made it as clear as day light that neither the civilians nor any of their belongings can be targeted even at times of war, how if there was no war!. So Islam and the good Muslims are guiltless of the accusations which were cast upon them following the 9/11 attacks. Those who committed this awful crime have been misguided and misinformed about Islam by people who seek not to spread justice and faith in Allah as they claim but they are seeking power and the west recognition to replace the ruling regimes in the Arab world. They think if they could terrify the people of the west, the west will finally have to bend to them and recognize them to be the replacement power.
Ayman Al-Zawahri plotted along with his companions in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization to overthrow the government of President Anwar Al-Sadat in 1981, but the plot was prematurely discovered and frustrated. In the 90s the armed members of the Muslim brotherhood involved in a wave of attacks against the Egyptian police forces, ministers and pro government writers in another attempt to overthrow the Egyptian government but the coup failed again and the Egyptian government cracked down on the Muslim brotherhood members. The Islamic movements have failed to overthrow the Arab regimes in many Arab countries like Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia by means of the army, security and intelligence agencies. So their radical members had to operate from outside and threaten the security of the western countries that support the Arab regimes.
C- The third element is the Israeli occupation of Palestine and its daily atrocities against the Palestinians
Osama Bin laden, the number one wanted Muslim terrorist by the American administration in almost all of his video or voice messages made mention of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the American troops existence in Saudi Arabia which he also called occupation and he demanded liberation of Palestine and Saudi Arabia from both occupations. ” The reason for our conflict with you is your support for your Israeli allies who are occupying our land of Palestine, it was this position of yours along with other injustices that drove us to carry out the events of 9/11″ Osama bin laden said addressing the American people in a televised message broadcasted by Al-Jazeera news agency this year a few days after the anniversary of the bloody events of 9/11. It is this position of him towards the Israeli occupation of Palestine that helped him gain popularity among the Arab masses besides his abandonment of the luxurious life that he could’ve lived utilizing the fortune his father left for him.
The Palestinian cause is a very sensitive issue for all Arab masses because they some how feel guilty when they think of Palestine and what the Palestinian people go through because they stand helpless whenever Israel commit crimes against the Palestinian people. The only thing they can do is to take out to streets in large numbers to express their support for the Palestinian and their anger towards Israel and the Arab regimes that stand silent on the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians. To support the Palestinian in these demonstrations hasn’t been enough for a lot of fevered young Muslims so they join the Islamic fundamental groups that pledge to fight America, the number one supporter of Israel. The US support for Israel is well known and has been repeatedly assured by its officials’ statements. The last of which was Barak Obama’s announcement at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington DC:” As a president, I will never compromise when it comes to the security of Israel. Those who threaten Israel, threaten us. I will bring to the white house an unshakable commitment to Israel’s security.” The US support is assusred by the US political, econmic and military support for Israel as the US has vetoed all the UN resolutions critical of Israel and it allocates a sum of 3 billion US dollars to Israel in military and financial aids every year.
This American support unwavering support for Israel has incited feelings of hate and resentment among Muslims and Arabs against the US. The Islamic fundamental movements and groups’ declared animosity towards the US and Israel is one of the reasons more young men are joining them. They wish to be trained on wielding the weapons, learn the tactics of fighting and the manufacturing of bombs. They wish to be sent to Palestine and fight the Israeli soldiers who occupy Palestine and murder the Palestinians because to defend your fellow Muslim is a duty demanded by Islam and to abstain from this duty is an inexcusable sin. This is what the Islamic fundamentalists are taught and promised.
The Islaeli occupation of Palestine was also the reason why Islamic movements in Palestine like Hamas and Islamic Jihad floursihed as they pledge to libarte Palestine from the occupation by means of armed struggle.
Conclusion
It is important to mention at the end that terrorism has no identity in the sense that all religions and faiths including Islam call for peace and forgiveness and denounce the use of violence unless there is a pressing necessity like the defense of one’s homeland, honor or possessions. The phenomenon of terrorism has been practised by both states and groups for the sake of power. The examples of states which pointed its guns, warplanes and rockets against people huddling peacefully in their homes are many, Israel, Iraq and the US are fine examples. And the examples of the groups which in the name of religion terrorized and murdered with cold blood innocent civilians are many, like The Israeli settlers, Hamas and Al-Qaeda. The exploitation of religion for political purposes is not new, it happened before upon the crusades which the Catholic Church called for. The same story is repeated now but with new faces. George W Bush called his war on terror a crusade and the Muslim terrorists cry out the name of Allah as they are carrying out their crimes. Jesus and Prophet Mohammed are guiltless of any crime committed in the name of the religions they gave to mankind for peace, justice and forgiveness to prevail. Fortunately, those who manipulate and twist religion to serve their own interests are a minority and are disdained and hated by the majority. And people around the world from all religions, races and cultures must stand together to fight the evil phenomenon of terrorism and eliminate the reasons that have made it. The extremists must have no place among us and I think the best way to fight them is by doing these five things.
1. To enlighten the people about the Muslim extremists and their evil.
2. To improve the people’s living conditions so they don’t fall easy victims to the extreme groups.
3. To extend bonds of friendship and fraternity among the peoples of the world to get to know each other and to stop fearing each other.
4. To establish peace and solve the conflicts in the disputed areas specially Palestine.
5. To democratize the Arab ruling regimes from within by finding clean-handed moderate qualified personages to replace the current corrupt ruling elites by means of disinterested and democratic elections.
By: Ramzi Hassouna
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Excellent article, Ramzy!! Very interesting analysis… You are right, it wouldn’t be so complicated, IF… *sigh*
This is excellent article ramzy ,it is so interesting and right.With my best wishes and good luck.
An excellent article and very very interesting must be red by all .
ibran article must be red by all.
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Aren’t Muslims the most targeted group by radical Muslim terrorists? When IED were blowing up US Humvees in Iraq, car bombs were also exploding at pre-dominantly Shiite (or Sunni depending on who set it up) shuks in Iraq. Or the bomb that blew up in a Pakistani shopping center mostly filled with women and children.
What about Assad’s Syria? Isn’t he secular too? Or Saddam Hussein?
I agree with you on perhaps one thing. The US should stop supporting the authoritarian regimes of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan.
Excellent Analysis Mr. Baroud !!!
1. The terrorists are not the Muslims, the Terrorists are those who who occupy our land and plunder our resources and all what the muslims do is retaliation for the zionist and American aggression.
2. The terrorist attacks done against the different muslim sects in the markets and the streets are done by the CIA an the Mussad agents to give a bad idea about the true muslim freedom-fighters who dont do such attacks at all but they fight the devil.
3. You will never be able to democratize the arab regimes unless you first clean the area from the zionists and the Americans who support these puppets of collaborators.
4. No respect for the weak and the west will look you down as long as you are begging for peace… peace can never be given but only taken and by force, the weak cant make peace, anyway.
Sami, the bedouin.
Ramzy, I enjoyed your article very much but you must not leave any room for ambiguity when you talk about Israeli occupation. I believe that you support a 2-state solution and do not, like Mr. Ahmedinajad, wish that Israel is “erased from history” but when he, bin laden or the PLO pre-1967 talk of liberation they mean the entire region of historic Palestine. Many people deliberately exploit this ambiguity in order to cloud and confuse the already very complex problem that exists in the region. That’s why it’s so important to choose your words carefully!
Sami,
The state of Israel has recognized the existence and put in jail many Jewish terrorists attempting to murder or have murdered Palestinians. But I don’t see why you are blindingly defending Muslims that have hurt other Muslims.
I saw a report on Al Jazeera English earlier this year about a group of Palestinians refugees kicked out of their homes in Iraq by Shiite militants and left stranded on the Syria-Iraq border. Instead of trying to help them by defending them from Iraqi secretarian violence, you are blaming the ol’ CIA and Mossad. Why face issues plaguing those you wish to protect when you can just blame everything on the West?
You are following the old path of nationalism, with a hint of fascism and anti-minority sentiments. Actually, I suggest you read about fascism and compare it with your comment.
Mr. Ramzi
am intrested in ur article , i like it , have analysis in depth
no body can understand case as palestinian live the current circumstances in palestinians territories
no body can understand our detailed life obstecales
we considered palestinians as ” stateless ” entire refugees and others outside countries does not have any civil rights espepcially in arab countries .
keep following up ur study.
greetings from Gaza Palestinian territories.
This is a fascinating and well-researched article. Here in the U.S.A. it’s hard to find such a cogent analysis. We have had to deal with the “They hate our freedoms” silliness from the right wing for far too long.
Sami wrote: “1. The terrorists are not the Muslims, the Terrorists are those who who occupy our land and plunder our resources and all what the muslims do is retaliation for the zionist and American aggression.
2. The terrorist attacks done against the different muslim sects in the markets and the streets are done by the CIA an the Mussad agents to give a bad idea about the true muslim freedom-fighters who dont do such attacks at all but they fight the devil.”
I’ve agreed with much of what you’ve written before on this site, but this seems wrong to me. Most of the terror attacks going off in Iraq and Pakistan, where they seem to be most common are set off by different groups of terrorists against other Muslims. It is totally against U.S. interests to further destabilize Iraq and Pakistan, so why would the CIA try to do that?
Jon,
didnt you hear that the Mossad is roaming the whole of Iraq now? Havent you heard that the Israel military officer are training the mercenary of Blackwater in Afghanistan? Didnt you hear of the American strategy of “creative anarchy” ??? What is that other than devastating the region with bloodshed? What is that other than terrorism ???
It’s reasonable to assume that any high-skill intelligence agency like Mossad operates wherever their government says to do so. I didn’t know about the Israeli training of Blackwater mercenaries but I believe it.
Killing civilians is terrorism, and the U.S. has done plenty of that, but it is not behind every instance of terrorism in the mideast in my mind.
Oh yeah, the good old america bashing again…
But I totally agree with your last 5 points:
1. To enlighten the people about the Muslim extremists and their evil.
- But, why isn’t it done yet? No TV/Newspapers? What happens in schools,universities and mosques?
2. To improve the people’s living conditions so they don’t fall easy victims to the extreme groups.
- Why is the Gaza-Strip and the Westbank not a mediterranean Singapore, despite all the billions of Euros the palestinians got over the years?
We even fund your garbage trucks.
3. To extend bonds of friendship and fraternity among the peoples of the world to get to know each other and to stop fearing each other.
- Why do palestinian school textbocks still sow hatred?
4. To establish peace and solve the conflicts in the disputed areas specially Palestine.
- Why is there no compromise? Just maximum claims?
5. To democratize the Arab ruling regimes from within by finding clean-handed moderate qualified personages to replace the current corrupt ruling elites by means of disinterested and democratic elections
- The Eastern Block did it, so you could study an example…
Good Luck
Daily atrocities against Palestinians?
Please provide detailed objective proof (e.g. non-Arab sources,and no Western sources based on Arab stringers) of 60 atrocities over the last 60 days, or failing that, even 10, or even 1 …
Ploni Almoni …. The siege on one million and half people in Gaza and that has been going on since more than 3 years .. isnt that a daily atrocities….. The imprisonment of 11 thousand Palestinians in the Israeli jails and the agony and ill treetement they receive inside there .. isnt that a daily atrocity…. The separation wall in the west bank that is swallowing Palestinian-owned lands with every curve it makes and preventing the Palestinian farmers from reaching to their own lands that happened to be on the other side of the wall … isnt that a daily atrocity….. do you want more? Atrocities doesnt always have to be a murder which the Israeli forces have pleasurably done to the Palestinians civilians in so many occasions and in large numbers.. the last war on Gaza bear witness to that !! maybe u didnt hear about that too !
I doubt u know the meaning of the word atrocity … Here is the dictionary definition of the word .. I looked it up for you ” An appalling or atrocious act, situation, or object, especially an act of unusual or illegal cruelty inflicted by an armed force on civilians or prisoners” is nt that very applicable to what the Israeli forces do to the Palestinian civilians …
I think you dont want to hear the whole truth … and u favor to watch and see the truth that u like to see and watch whatever ur news sources are … go on with that .. I am sure .. They please your racist and full of hate nature.
I need not explain further to you … .. some people like being blind !