Why No Why

Friday, 17 December 2010 00:00

WHY NO WHY? http://print.dailymirror.lk/opinion1/30161.html By Hameed Abdul Karim Global terror experts’ contention that the Wikileaks exposures might jeopardize US’ counter terrorism operations raises a paramount question. What is the need for counter terrorism operations in the first place? If the US stops its global hegemony plans as detailed in its Plan for the New American Century (PNAC), then there would be no need for such measures. Osama bin Laden fought the Russians and in that fight the Americans and the entire Western world supported the Mujahedeen of which he was one of the leaders. Ronald Reagan called them brave freedom fighters and mocked the Russians when they called them terrorists. Today the Mujahedeen (notice how the word Mujahedeen has been dropped out of the discourse after Americas invasion and occupation) are called by other names because they are fighting the American occupation of Afghanistan and so the legitimacy of freedom fighters is now taken away from them. Instead they are ‘terrorists’ better still ‘Islamic terrorists’. See the hypocrisy? Or are we going to go into another bout of harangue with nice juicy words and catch phrases like democracy, freedom, the rule of law, justice.  In passing let me also mention Algeria, where a free election gave the opposition FIS an overwhelming victory. The US and the EU cartel went after the pro-West ruling elite there and made sure they cancel the election. In fact, when America speaks about such idealistic issues like democracy you can be sure millions of Non-white folks will have to die as is borne out in Iraq and Afghanistan and as was seen in Vietnam, Korea, Nicaragua, Chile and so many countries. The fact of the matter is that America has attacked no less than seventy (70) countries in the last hundred years. All this supposedly to ‘spread human rights and the rule of law’!  Nicaragua took the Super Power to the World Court and subsequent to the evidence the Nicaraguans provided, the World Court declared the US a ‘terrorist state’ for the illegal mining of Nicaragua’s waters.   A look at the manner in which Barack Obama made his latest jaunt to Afghanistan is an eye opener for non-Western countries. He went into a conquered nation, like Julius Caesar of yore; a nation he believes belongs to America by title deed. There was no need for diplomatic approval.  He gave a pep talk to his ‘boys’ to up their flagging spirits in the hopeless situation they find themselves in. A situation where they have to kill or are being killed. That’s the concept of Globalization we will have to live with under the New World Order if we remain at each other throats. Pakistan and India must mull over this and the Wikileaks exposures about them and do their most to mend their fences or the US will use both these countries to destroy each other as Julian Assange’s exposures confirm.  The sooner India and Pakistan realize the US is leading them up the garden path the better it would be for the entire region. After all an overwhelming majority of the populations of these two nuclear powers live under the poverty line in horrible conditions. The largest number of malnourished children can be found in India.  India and Pakistan must take a cue from South American nations. Barring one or two, the rest of them have got together for the betterment of their people. To reach that state of mind we have to first analyze the West’s corporate media and their allied agents in other parts of the world. In the days of colonialism our lands were occupied. The imperialist globe guzzlers know that a mind under occupation can easily be manipulated to fit in nicely with their agenda. Be that as it may, when India fought for her independence from Britain, the wonderful Indian leaders of that time called it a struggle (in Arabic-Jihad) but the British imperialists called it an ‘uprising’ or a ‘rebellion’ or a ‘revolt’. And the word for France, Russian and American struggles for freedom was called ‘revolution’………………….

 

Here is the unedited version of the response…..

WHY NO WHY?

Hameed Abdul Karim

Prof Rohan Guneratnes’s contention that the Wikileaks exposures might jeopardize US’ counter terrorism operations raises a paramount question (Daily Mirror Friday 3 November 2010).  What is the need for counter terrorism operations in the first place? If the US stops its global hegemony plans as detailed in its Plan for the New American Century (PNAC), then there would be no need for such measures. But a fall out of that will be that ‘experts on terrorism’ might lose out big time.  In short they’ll be joining queues for handouts for the jobless.

Another question self proclaimed intellectuals should ask is why there is so much resistance or ‘terrorism’, if you like. Why is there no why? For example, why don’t they ask WHY there is terrorism? The fact is the question will never be posed because the answers will open a can of worms that will certainly implicate and expose the US and its satellite states in Europe. Not that they have any shame.  

Look at this way. We had Osama bin Laden fighting the Russians and in that fight the Americans and the entire Western world supported the Mujahedeen of which he was one of the leaders. Ronald Reagan called them brave freedom fighters and mocked the Russians when they called them terrorists. Today the Mujahedeen (notice how the word Mujahedeen has been dropped out of the discourse after America’s invasion and occupation) are called by other names because they are fighting the American occupation of Afghanistan and so the legitimacy of freedom fighters is now taken away from them. Instead they are ‘terrorists’ better still ‘Islamic terrorists’.  See the hypocrisy? Plain and simple, what? Or are we going to go into another bout of harangue with nice juicy words and catch phrases like democracy, freedom, the rule of law, justice blah….blah… These are the fancy words and expressions the PR companies (as touted by Prof Rohan Guneratne), hired by the Western powers- especially the US, employ to dupe ‘natives’ into believing the crapaganda the Western and allied media in the ‘developing world’ dish out as daily diets. Eventually it boils down to nothing but verbal diarrhea. Just look at the lives that have been lost in Iraq and Afghanistan for ‘democracy’. And then look at how Hosni Mubarak, America’s CEO in Egypt, thwarted the democratic elections there and you’ll get my drift.  In passing let me also mention Algeria, where a free election gave the opposition FIS an overwhelming victory. The US and the EU cartel went after the pro-West ruling elite there and made sure they cancel the election. More recently they punished Hamas for winning a free and fair democratic election in Occupied Palestine and continue to do so up until now. Hamas are ‘terrorists’ and woe be to you if you say anything in their defense In fact, when America speaks about such idealistic issues like democracy you can be sure millions of Non-white folks will have to die as is borne out in Iraq and Afghanistan and as was seen in Vietnam, Korea, Nicaragua, Chile and oh so many countries. The fact of the matter is that America has attacked no less than seventy (70) countries in the last hundred years. All this supposedly to spread human rights and the rule of law and we nitwits are required to believe that crap.

Nicaragua took the Super Power to the World Court and subsequent to the evidence the Nicaraguans provided, the World Court declared the US a ‘terrorist state’ for the illegal mining of Nicaragua’s waters.  

A look at the manner in which Barack Obama made his latest jaunt to Afghanistan is an eye opener for non-Western countries. He went into a conquered nation, like Julius Caesar of yore; a nation he believes belongs to America by title deed. There was no need for diplomatic approval.

He gave a pep talk to his ‘boys’ to up their flagging spirits in the hopeless situation they find themselves in. A situation where they have to kill or are being killed just so that the big boys back home can make their bug bucks. Obama took his flight back home without even having the courtesy to say hello to his Tonto, Hamid Karzai. Hi! Yo! Obama away! 

That’s the concept of Globalization we will have to live with under the New World Order if we remain at each other throats. Pakistan and India must mull over this and the Wikileaks exposures about them and do their darndest to mend their fences or the US will use both these countries to destroy each other as Julian Assange’s exposures confirm.  Remember, a few years ago Jean Kirkpatrick, then US ambassador to the UN, had drawn a ‘white paper’ on how to ‘balkanise’  India if Indira Gandhi didn’t stop asking for coco-cola’s formula and open her market for American products.

The sooner India and Pakistan realise the US is leading them up the garden path the better it would be for the entire region. After all an overwhelming majority of the populations of these two nuclear powers live under the poverty line in horrible conditions. The largest number of malnourished children can be found in India.  India and Pakistan (and hopefully the Arab nations) must take a cue from South American nations. Barring one or two, the rest of them have got together for the betterment of their people. Americans were fond of boasting South America was their backyard where they grew their bananas. Moreover, they insultingly called them ‘banana republics’. Well, no longer. Brazil, for example is developing at a respectable rate and one of its companies is the fourth largest in the world. 

When Prof Rohan Guneratne speaks of ‘ideological extremism’ which is an euphemism for what ‘they’ call ‘Islamic terrorism’ doesn’t he realise that, except for Tibet, all the countries that are ‘terrorising the world’ are Muslim and in fact all those Muslim nations are under occupation either by Israel, Russia, China or India? Couldn’t we look at the issue from another angle? Couldn’t we say their ‘terrorism’ is in response to state terrorism? Or can’t we call it the ‘terrorism of the terrorised’? If (might I say when) we begin to think on those lines then, perhaps, we might see global conflicts in balanced perspectives.

To reach that state of mind we have to first analyse the West’s corporate media and their allied agents in other parts of the world. In the days of colonialism our lands were occupied. With the advent of the West’s ‘patriotic media’ our minds have come under occupation which in my view is very effective and more dangerous.  The imperialist globe guzzlers know that a mind under occupation can easily be manipulated to fit in nicely with their agenda. To achieve these objectives they have ‘experts’ like Prof Rohan Guneratne who was once caught out by Australia’s Attorney General Daryl Williams for uttering a falsehood when he claimed that an Al-Qaeda operative had made many reconnaissance trips to Australia.  Williams dismissed his claim as utter rubbish. So much for our hero’s expertise! Evidently, his over enthusiasm to please the West got the better of him.

Prof Rohan Guneratne believes nations must not be allowed to live by their respective ideologies and that they must go secular. I have a typical ‘hard-talk’ question for him. If Muslim nations, or nations of other faiths, want to live their lives according to the rules of their respective ideologies, why should it bother us or professors? I have heard that such a thing is called democracy. Or am I hearing wrong? 

Talking of ‘ideological extremism’ of the Muslim kind, let’s turn our attention to the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’. Israel’s Prime Minister wants the US and the rest of the world to recognise his country as an exclusive Jewish state, where the original inhabitants will be officially classified as second class citizens. In other words, what Israel wants is a legal apartheid state with the blessing of the champions of secularism, the US and the EU cartel. Let me see Prof Rohan Guneratne speak out against this ‘ethnocracy’ with the same exaggerated concern with which he beats Muslim countries. I bet you he won’t. If he does he’ll be out of a job before you can say Benyamin Netanyahu!

Be that as it may, when India fought for her independence from Britain, the wonderful Indian leaders of that time called it a struggle (in Arabic-Jihad) but the British imperialists called it an ‘uprising’ or a ‘rebellion’ or a ‘revolt’. And the word for France, Russian and American struggles for freedom was called ‘revolution’. Today such struggles are called ‘terrorism’, especially when Muslims fight for their independence from foreign yoke.

In the Middle-East we have the word ‘conflict’ or ‘violence’ to describe Israel’s despicable occupation of Palestinian land. Talk of George Orwell’s newspeak! And what’s more if we are not on our guard the West’s corporate media and their agents worldwide might persuade us to believe that ‘Freedom is Slavery’! 

The ‘War on Terror’ is a fake. There is no such thing. What it really is, is massacring poor and wretched people to loot and plunder their natural resources.  Let me repeat America’s slaughter of millions of non-White people in Afghanistan and Iraq and Palestine is to grab their resources in line with the PNAC.

Once we begin to see and say things the way they are, maybe we might see true and genuine peace, at least for our children and theirs. For starters let us stand up to the truth and say Chechnya is under Russian occupation, Palestine is under Israeli occupation, Kashmir is under Indian occupation (and not under Indian ‘administration’) and East Turkmenistan is under Chinese occupation. East Turkmenistan? Ever heard of such a place? No of course not. It’s now called Xinxiang Province. Another Orwellian twist!   

Journalists all over the world, if they are true to their professions and are actually the ears and eyes of the people, must throw their collective weight behind Julian Assange and all those at Wikileaks instead of becoming prey to the vile of America’s imperial design, spread and supported by pandering professors. Or else they will go down in history as ‘presstitutes’. 

Not only should we support Julian Assange but also great people like George Galloway, Arundathi Roy, Norman Finklestein, Marwan Barghouti, Robert Fisk, John Pilger and a host of others who have put their  lives on line so that we are kept informed of the wicked games the imperialist play on us. They are the heroes. They are OUR heroes! Believe that, and not the crap that minions of the imperialists say.