ENEMY HUNT, THE PERENNIAL QUEST OF THE WEST

Appeared in ‘Ceylon Today’ Sunday 25 December 2011

Enemy Hunt, the Perennial Quest of the West

Hameed Abdul Karim

The western powers have always needed enemies to force their agenda down the throats of different nations at various times in history. With the end of colonialism, however, the U.S. spurred by its imperial mindset, has taken over the role of ‘civilising’ the former colonies with the full backing of France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK which now are, for all intents and purposes, US satellite states.

ISLAMOPHOBIA; A WAY TO MUSLIM HOLOCAUST

Appeared in The Sunday Times International Sunday April 10, 2011

Islamophobia: A Way to Muslim Holocaust

By Hameed Abdul Karim

‘85% of American Muslim community leaders are an enemy living amongst us’

-U.S Representative Peter King (R-NY)

A video making the rounds on the internet claims that Muslims and Islam will take over Europe in the near future. Muslims, it said, would outnumber the non-Muslims and Sharia will replace western liberal values. The narrator, in a sepulchral voice, announced that it was too late to turn the clock back because the birth rates of Muslims far exceeded those of the natives.

A STORY FROM THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD

Appeared in the Sunday Times 4 February 2015

A Story from the life of the Prophet Muhammad

Hameed Abdul Karim

There is a story a very touching one among many in the life of the Messenger Muhammad (peace be on him) that can move people to tears.

It goes like this.

THE 'MYSTERY' COUNTRY IN THE 9-11 REPORT

The 'Mystery' Country in the 9-11 Report

Hameed Abdul Karim

The official story is that Muslim ‘terrorists’ did 9-11. Maybe. But were they acting alone?  And is there a secret surrounding the findings that investigated the biggest attack that America faced on that fateful day? Yes, there is.

ISLAMPOPHOBIA AND THE SRI LANKAN MEDIA

Islamophobia And The Sri Lankan Media

October 14, 2014 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,Opinion | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

By Hameed Abdul Karim -

Hameed Abdul Karim

In recent times there have been a string of articles in the Sri Lanka print media ranging from claims that terrorist groups like Al Qaeda are firmly entrenched in Sri Lanka to ISIL cells straining at the leash just to wreak havoc in the country at the drop of the hat. All they need is an order from their ‘caliph’. That’s the impression that has been created in the minds of ‘news’ consumers.

In a TV interview, not long ago, a BBS demagogue said he had seen Al Qaeda cadres training in the east of Sri Lanka with his ‘own eyes’.  The military rejected this ‘eye witness account’ out of hand.

So what’s this all about?

Is Israel Our Friend?

October 1, 2014 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,Opinion | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

By Hameed Abdul Karim -

Hameed Abdul Karim

In the recent past there seems to be a rush by sections of the media and top government officials to embrace Israel as a bosom pal.

An article in the once prestigious Daily Mirror claimed the Sinhalese were related to the Jews through the ten headed King Ravana who lived 5000 years ago. It was not the absurdity of the logic of the writer that was in debate, but the fact that the said paper decided to publish the said article that raised eyebrows. Somewhere in the corridors of power in Tel Aviv there will  be top officials laughing their heads off at the thought of being related to ‘monkeys’ as the Sinhalese were described by Mossad officials according to Victor Ostrovosky in his book ‘By Way of Deception’.

IS IT GAME OVER

Ceylon Today

Monday 15 September 2014

Is It Game Over?

Hameed Abdul Karim

‘It is true the brutal beheadings of two journalists were acts of savagery’

When the now renamed Islamic State exploded on the world scene there was shock and revulsion all over the Middle East and the Gulf state. Shock at the lightening speed with which they conquered large swathes of land in Iraq and Syria. Revulsion at the indescribable atrocities the fighters committed in achieving this objective.

Did God Promise Palestine To The Jews?

August 25, 2014 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,Opinion | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

By Hameed Abdul Karim -

Hameed Abdul Karim

Note by writer. This article was in response to one that appeared in The Island (Sri Lanka) but the paper did NOT publish thus depriving me the 'Right of Reply'. This is in gross violation of media ethics. However, the Colombo Telegraph came to my rescue by publishing it in their popular website. My thanks to Colombo Telegraph. Hameed

Dr. V.J.M. De Silva in his article titled ‘The Israeli Palestinian Conflict Some Random Thoughts’ (The Island, 12 August, 2014) quotes the Bible in support of Israel. The one that Dr. Silva cites is often quoted by Jewish and Christian Zionists or Evangelical Christians to support the colonial conquest of Palestine by European Jews.  This so called promise to the Prophet Abraham (peace be on him) is found in the book of Genesis.

COMPARE ISRAEL WITH THE LTTE

This was in response to an editorial in the Sunday Times (SL) on August 2, 2014. 

Compare Israel With The LTTE

August 5, 2014 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,Opinion | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

By Hameed Abdul Karim -

Hameed Abdul Karim

I was more than disappointed when I read your editorial in the Sunday Times (August 2, 2014) where you directly compare the Hamas with the now vanquished LTTE suggesting that Hamas too is a terrorist organisation as Israel and its backers in west, the so-called ‘international community’, want the whole world to believe.

It is open season on Muslims in Sri Lanka as in the whole world, so I will be treading on dangerous grounds when I say Hamas is not a terrorist organisation. I know also that useful idiots like ‘caliph’ Baghdadi of Islamic State notoriety contribute immensely to the sound bites of ‘Islamic terrorism’ that are ever present in the echo chambers of the world media.

Free and fair election

ISRAEL IS THE VILLAIN OF THE PEACE

COLOMBO TELEGRAPH

Israel Is The Villain Of The Peace

July 23, 2014 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,MORE OPINION,Opinion | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

By Hameed Abdul Karim -

Hameed Abdul Karim

For Mr. Angelo Jansen and his ilk, (Ceylon Today Thursday 17 July, 2014) like the Israeli spin doctor Mark Regev and all Israeli worshipers, it seems like history of the Palestinians’ tragedy began last week when Hamas fired rockets into Israel in retaliation to Israeli atrocities in Occupied Palestine.

So for those of us who do not know, the Palestinian catastrophe began when about a hundred years ago Zionist Jews supported by white supremacists in Europe and America, who now call themselves the ‘international community, brought European Ashkenazi Jews to Palestine. At first the Palestinians Arabs, both Muslims and Christians, welcomed their ‘cousins’ with open arms in sympathy because they were fleeing the enormous and horrible  butchery committed on them (the Jews) by white European Christians.

HOW THE WEST'S MEDIA TWISTED THE TALIBAN VIDEO

Ceylon Today

Tuesday 10 June 2014

How the West’s Media Twisted the Taliban Video

Hameed Abdul Karim

There was something strange, something amiss you might say, about Taliban’s video showing the release of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. And that was the superimposition of the words ‘Don’ Come Back to Afghanistan Again’ which appeared once while Sgt. Bergdahl was seated in the back of the pickup truck and then again when the Blackhawk gunship is in the air bringing to mind the words ‘Hi Yo Silver Away!’ the Lone Ranger utters as he gallops away into sunset after accomplishing his many missions for the good of mankind.

MODI - A MAGIC WAND?

Ceylon Today

Thursday 22 May, 2014

Modi – A Magic Wand?

Hameed Abdul Karim

I was with an Indian HR guy a few days ago and quite naturally the topic of Narendra Modi’s massive victory crept into the conversation. This Indian Bhai was quite ecstatic in his praise for Modi. ‘Already the stock market has hit a new record high’ he gloated and I thought to myself ‘Right: the capitalists are already raking in the shekels while the poor are wondering whether they will get the toilets Modi promised them’. But courtesy prevented me from giving expression to my thoughts.

LIVING A LIE: RAPE AND THE BURNING OF MUSLIM SHOPS

Living A Lie: Rape And The Burning Muslim Shops

May 14, 2014 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,MORE OPINION,Opinion | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

By Hameed Abdul Karim -

Hameed Abdul Karim

The other day I came across an article that appeared in The Island titled ‘Buddha Sasana Ministry Invasion is a Rehearsal for Regime Change’ and was horrified to find the writer had casually justified the arson attack on a shop in Aluthgama owned by Muslims by claiming that this had happened because a young Sinhala Buddhist boy had been raped by the owner inside the shop.

OF HOLOCAUST MEMORY MERCHANTS AND SELECTED HISTORY

Tuesday 11 February, 2014

Of Holocaust Memory Merchants and Selected History

Hameed Abdul Karim

‘We are the victims of the victims’ Edward Said

Kumari’s article titled ‘Holocaust memorial and other memorials’ (Ceylon Today Sat. 1 February, 2014)  poignantly reminds us all of how cruel Christian Europe was to the Jews  during World Word 11 and how the Nazis under Adolf Hitler committed one of the worst crimes against humanity ever recorded in history.

ISRAEL PERSECUTES CHRISTIANS IN PALESTINE

Wednesday 27 November, 2013

Israel Persecutes Christians in Palestine

Hameed Abdul Karim

“We  as  Palestinians  had  not  been  responsible  for  the  suffering  of  the  Jews  in  Europe,  yet  we  were  the  ones  who  were  chased  out  of  our  land  and  made  to  suffer  so  the  world  could  soothe  its  conscience  and  pretend  to  repair  the  evil  done  against  the  Jews.”   

-         Archbishop Elias Chacour

THE HIZMET MOVEMENT

Thursday 14 November, 2013 

The Hizmet Movement

Hameed Abdul Karim

‘Be so sympathetic and tolerant that your bosom becomes as wide as the ocean. Be inspired with faith and love your fellow human being. Let there be no troubled souls to whom you do not offer a helping hand and about whom you remain unconcerned’

-          Fethullah Gulen

THE MIDDLE EAST: TWO STATE TRAP

Thursday 22nd May, 2008

The Middle East: two state trap

by Hameed Abdul Karim

This might sound strange. But ever since 'peace' talks began between the Palestinians and the Israelis, the Jewish state has built more settlements on land stolen from the Palestinians and has continued its campaign to kill as many Palestinians as it can. Annapolis is a recent reminder that proves the point. Even before the Palestinian peace negotiators could creep back into their refugee camps, the Zionist state of Israel announced it was going to build three hundred more units in occupied Palestine. With this announcement Israel's real intentions - or its ulterior motives - in peace dealing lay bare for the whole world to see.