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Jul 14 2005
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“And this is part of the point of yesterday's bombings: to divide British Muslims from British non-Muslims (let us not mention the name Christians), to encourage the very kind of racism that Tony Blair claims to resent,” concluded Fisk. Image

Media is the oxygen for promoting militant’s caused by creating panic and attracting attention, so the timing of G8 summit of world’s richest nations was chosen well in advance. Whenever US officials make visits, like President Bill Clinton’s visit to India in 1999, terrorists carry out attacks. So London bombings succeeded in turning the spotlight away from the media coverage of G8 summit held to increase aid and make African poverty history, in defiance of historic wisdom and reality. Except for some of the naïve do good music icons and fans; it is clear that the looting of African resources continues unabashed. G8 policies on trade and agriculture, and of their multinationals, the IMF, World Bank now to be charged with removing poverty are the real cause of the continent’s grinding poverty as UN and many other reports have established.

The real cause of continuing blasts in the Western world lies in the occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine and state supported terrorism against the people of theses countries .If these are covered sporadically and arouse little anger in the everyday lives of most westerners “it does not mean the anger and bitterness they arouse in the Muslim world and its diasporas is insignificant. As long as western politicians wage their wars and their colleagues in the Muslim world watch in silence, young people will be attracted to the groups who carry out random acts of revenge,” said Tariq Ali after the London bombings.

Then it boils down to this; the word "civilization" seems to hold the key to unraveling the complicated web of possible post-attack reaction by the West. Condeleeza Rice termed the attack a "war against the ideals" of Western civilization. Blair termed it "an attack on civilized people" and insisted with confidence that "our values will long outlast theirs". The bells of the “clash of civilizations” predicted by Samuel Huntington and as interpreted by the West seem to be ringing loudly in this discourse. For followers of non-Abrahamic religions, it is a never-ending internecine mortal battle for their Gods.

Western media has paid almost no attention to the non- governmental International Tribunal meetings in Istanbul, which produced the most searing evidence to date of the greatest political scandal of modern times: the attack on a defenseless people of Iraq by America and Britain. The tribunal is a serious international public inquiry into the invasion and occupation i.e., "to examine a vast spectrum of evidence [about the war] that has been deliberately marginalized and suppressed - its legality, the role of international institutions and major corporations in the occupation; the role of the media, the impact of weapons such as depleted-uranium munitions, napalm and cluster bombs, the use and legitimating of torture . . . This tribunal is an attempt to correct the record: to document the history of the war not from the point of view of the victors but of the temporarily vanquished."

The war against terrorism took from the very beginning a distinctly racist coloration, anti-Muslim and anti-Arab. US collusion in the subsequent brutal Israeli aggression - all in the name of race and ethnicity - has only served to reinforce this. The new US willingness and threat to intervene in the developing world wherever and whenever it sees fit and setting aside all international laws, treaties and conventions has made the world lawless .So why complain.

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In my piece, “The decline of the American century” (Asia Times of September 11, 2002), I had said.” Never have so few annoyed so many. On Iraq and most other international issues, only British Prime Minister Tony Blair (reflecting a 19th-century "bomb the natives" mentality) supports Bush. Most British citizens do not support the policy. For acting as lackeys, the British get a disproportionate number of jobs in the UN and other multilateral organizations to act as a stalking horse for the US.
”The UK has a big Muslim population, which sends volunteers and huge sums of money to support terrorism in the South Asian subcontinent and elsewhere. Many are al-Qaida members involved in the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan and other terror-related and hijacking activities. Other European countries such as Germany and France have big Muslim populations of many millions from Turkey and North Africa, mostly on the margins of the society and fertile ground for recruitment. Besides Chechnya and other places in the Caucasus, Russia has a large Muslim population. There is a well-spread-out and long-term danger all over the Christian world.”

USA -Dangers from within;

As for USA I had said;”The knee-jerk US reaction and quick-fix measures after the September 11 attacks have changed the very basics of US society, its function, transparency and freedoms. Thousands of its loyal citizens and students of Middle East origin and others are being scrutinized, harassed and imprisoned without charge, sometimes for no reason except for their origins. It has alienated loyal citizens of Middle East and South Asian descent, many in key positions.
”There is talk of military tribunals, something with which the US has a despicable record. During World War II, thousands of US citizens from Japan and Germany were interned. Continuation of similar policies in the 21st century might transform the US from being a melting pot of nations to a "meltdown" of its cohesion, unity and polity. Image

”The United States is an idea barely more than 200 years old that white Anglo-Saxon Protestants dominate. There are still questions about what happened to its first Catholic president John F Kennedy and some of his family members. The US is a fragile nation, never tested fully at home. Its internal security and unity are fragile. It has yet to recover from its Vietnam trauma.

”African-American Walter Mosley, Bill Clinton's favorite novelist, recently said: "Most black people in America were not surprised by September 11. I haven't met one black person who was surprised. Like everyone else, they were shocked by the magnitude of it, and appalled by the deaths, but they weren't surprised by the hate and anger that produced it. Black Americans are very aware of the attitude of America towards people who are different, people whose beliefs are different, people of a different color. We live with that attitude every single day. We know how hated America is."
The danger to the US "way of life and stability" could come from within, from black American Muslims who now number 3 million to 5 million. Black Americans are now joining the armed forces in large numbers after the compulsory military draft was abolished.



 
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