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Jul 14 2005
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The movement of natives to Metropolitan colonial countries especially their capitals was a natural phenomenon during the colonial era. Those who could attain financial, educational and cultural levels of their colonial rulers were tolerated and even accepted with some inter racial marriages. But after the peace following the Second World War when the industrial economies of the former colonial nations expanded , more and more natives were encouraged to come over to do jobs lower down the chain like cleaning streets and heavy work in building and construction industry. A similar equation is being established between West Europe and newly liberated East European countries. However, the latter has high education level especially in medical and technical fields, which frightens the highly overpaid and coddled west European citizens. As Germany was deprived of colonies after the first world war, it imported hard-working Turks mostly from poorer central and eastern Turkey, of whom 25% are Kurdish. They brought along their differences and problems. In Germany‘s case there are at least no colonial memories to poison inter –racial relations. In France, most of the Muslims are from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia and former French colonies in West Africa. They have also brought their religious and ethnic differences to Europe. There are nearly one and half million Muslims of South Asian origin in UK .When there are enough immigrants from Pak occupied Kashmir in some constituencies it even affects labor Government policies on South Asia . Image

The relationship between colonial Christian rulers and their Muslim subjects , Arab or South Asian and the antagonism they created have deep foundations from the days of Millennia old Christian Crusades against Islam and exploitation during the 19th and 20th centuries .These memories , embedded in Muslim conscience have now been sharpened by the neo- colonial and imperial policies of USA. Of course USA can be cavalier for the time being as it does not have large poor Muslim populations from the Arab world and South Asia? However, if not handled carefully, it is all a matter of time before USA could face up what Europe is facing now, from its black Afro-Asian community, specially its Muslim component. It was only natural that France and Germany opposed the U.S.-led war on Islam and Iraq. It may be recalled that George Bush’s first clarion call after 11 September attacks was for a Crusade and Infinite Justice.

USA and its leader;

Does US regime fulfill the true definition of a democracy i.e. a government of the people, by the people and for the people. It now caters to a narrow but powerful collection of military-industrial and energy corporate interests. After the decimation of red Indians, brutal exploitation and treatment of Afro-Americans, being geographically isolated and blessed with the immense resources, USA developed into a powerful economic republic .But now it seems to have gone astray , totally, especially during the last few decades. The system is now no longer producing political leaders .The nominees of corporate interests occupy almost all top administration posts , including that of the President and the Vice President , which is but natural in an electoral system, which demands hundreds of millions of dollars to win a presidential race. Unlike Europe, it has not faced even local terrorism like the Irish and Red brigades of Italy and Germany on its soil. September 11 was a searing Baptism by Islamic terrorism.

Tom Engelhard, a reputed historian and journalist who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com commented that at the G8 meeting , George Bush offered "heartfelt condolences to the people of London, people who lost lives" and spoke of defending Americans against heightened dangers and extolled the strength of resolve of the other G8 leaders by comparing it to his own ."I was most impressed by the resolve of all the leaders in the room. Their resolve is as strong as my resolve." He ‘presented for the umpteenth time his Manichean vision of a world of good and evil in which he and his administration are unhesitatingly the representatives of all goodness.” Image

“As reality grows ever darker, our president never ventures far from his scripted version of a fictional world that is nowhere to be seen.’ Like he and his deputy had launched a vigorous, completely ludicrous defense of his Guantanamo prison complex-- making [it like ] one of those Caribbean tourist ads - that the prisoners there were lucky to be housed and fed so admirably in the balmy "tropics".” Very few prison systems around the world have seen such scrutiny as this one. “The press, of course, was welcome to go down to Guantanamo.

To Jane Mayer of the New Yorker magazine , who went there , “it struck as a giant dystopian experiment in mind manipulation.” According to Senior Bush's White House physician, a former doctor in the Army Medical Corps, “Today, however, it seems as though our government and the military have slipped into Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The widespread reports of torture and ill treatment - frequently based on military and government documents - defy the claim that this abusive behavior is limited to a few noncommissioned officers at Abu Gharib or isolated incidents at Guantanamo Bay. When it comes to torture, the military's traditional leadership and discipline have been severely compromised up and down the chain of command. Why? I fear it is because the military has bowed to errant civilian leadership. “

According to psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton who wrote the insightful Superpower Syndrome, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration "responded apocalyptically to an apocalyptic challenge"; of how, facing Islamists fanaticism, it offered its own version of a fundamentalist "world war without end"; of how it perversely partnered up with al-Qaida in a strange global dance of animosity.[Lord Shiva’s tandav dance of destruction] Once again, the London bombs may bolster Bush's waning support domestically, just as his acts globally reinforce the evidently growing support for various al-Qaida-linked or identified groups.”



 
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