| forahmad@hotmail.com 2005-07-11, 4:25 am |
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Jim Yanik wrote:
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> No,if you read Memri.org, or other sources,you might know about how mosques
> teach radical Wahabbi Islam and spread hate of non-Islamics.
According to some reports, "MEMRI is an invention of Colonel Yigal
Carmon, who spent 22 years in Israeli intelligence and later served as
counter-terrorism adviser to former Israeli premiers Yitzak Shamir and
Yitzak Rabin.)" Their job is to dig up dirt in Arab countries, so the
picture you get is very distorted. It would be the same as me
travelling all over the US filming crazies and fanatics, recording
quotes from talk-radio, and then portraying them as typically American.
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> How those Arabic countries use anti-West hatred to distract their people
> from internal issues
The "hatred" of the West began when the British broke up the Ottoman
Empire and promised to 'liberate' Arabs from the Turkish rule; instead,
Arabs became subjects of the British and French colonial rule. Puppet
rulers were set up by Western Powers to derive maximum economic and
political benefits. Not only that, the British encouraged or allowed
Jewish emigration to Palestine, which resulted in Palestinian Muslims
and Christians loosing lands on which they have lived for thousands of
years. Hence, if another 'Anglo-Saxon' world power (for lack of a
better term) is now promising to liberate them and give them democracy,
they are suspicious. They want democracy but not at the hands of
Americans.
The terrorists see "Muslims" not only as a religious group but also as
a cultural group (a conglomeration of Arab/Asian nations which together
are part of the Muslim 'ummah). They are fighting for 'their'
people--Arabs and Asians who identify themselves as Muslims--not
religion per se. And that is why some of them are not even practicing
Muslims; they can drink alcohol, eat port, indulge in fornication
(things strictly forbidden in Islam), and still go out and fight like
hell--anything to get American/British/Israeli armies and their allies
get out of their countries. The United States and Britain want to
remain global powers, having armies and political influence, all over
the world; the terrorists want it end it from their region of the
world.
Now, obviously, the strategy that terrorists have chosen is wrong.
Instead of killing innocent civilians, they need to organize themselves
politically, overthrow their tyrannical regimes, and then simply vote
to ask the US and Britain to move their forces out. That's the proper
way. Having said that, the US and Great Britain need to realize that in
this day and age hegemony by one or two nations is unsustainable--the
age of empire building is over, even if justified by having so-called
allies--and it's time to build international institutions that can
provide world security and solve world problems.
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