Who Should be Blamed for “Muslim Terrorism”?
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A hundred years ago, it would have been unimaginable to have a pair of Muslim men enter a cafe or a public transportation vehicle, and then blow themselves up, killing dozens. Or to massacre the staff of a satirical magazine in Paris! Things like that were simply not done.
When you read the memoirs of Edward Said, or talk to old men and women in East Jerusalem, it becomes clear that the great part of Palestinian society used to be absolutely secular and moderate. It cared about life, culture, and even fashion, more than about religious dogmas.
The same could be said about many other Muslim societies, including those of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt and Indonesia. Old photos speak for themselves. That is why it is so important to study old images again and again, carefully.
Islam is not only a religion; it is also an enormous culture, one of the greatest on Earth, which has enriched our humanity with some of the paramount scientific and architectural achievements, and with countless discoveries in the field of medicine. Muslims have written stunning poetry, and composed beautiful music. But above all, they developed some of the earliest social structures in the world, including enormous public hospitals and the first universities on earth, like The University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco.
The idea of ‘social’ was natural to many Muslim politicians, and had the West not brutally interfered, by overthrowing left-wing governments and putting on the throne fascist allies of London, Washington and Paris; almost all Muslim countries, including Iran, Egypt and Indonesia, would now most likely be socialist, under a group of very moderate and mostly secular leaders.
In the past, countless Muslim leaders stood up against the Western control of the world, and enormous figures like the Indonesian President, Ahmet Sukarno, were close to Communist Parties and ideologies. Sukarno even forged a global anti-imperialist movement, the Non-Allied movement, which was clearly defined during the Bandung Conference in Indonesia, in 1955.
That was in striking contrast to the conservative, elites-oriented Christianity, which mostly felt at home with the fascist rulers and colonialists, with the kings, traders and big business oligarchs.
For the Empire, the existence and popularity of progressive, Marxist, Muslim rulers governing the Middle East or resource-rich Indonesia, was something clearly unacceptable. If they were to use the natural wealth to improve the lives of their people, what was to be left for the Empire and its corporations? It had to be stopped by all means. Islam had to be divided, and infiltrated with radicals and anti-Communist cadres, and by those who couldn’t care less about the welfare of their people.
Almost all radical movements in today’s Islam, anywhere in the world, are tied to Wahhabism, an ultra-conservative, reactionary sect of Islam, which is in control of the political life of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other staunch allies of the West in the Gulf.
To quote Dr. Abdullah Mohammad Sindi:
“It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant…”
The West gave full support to the Wahhabis in the 1980s. They were employed, financed and armed, after the Soviet Union was dragged into Afghanistan and into a bitter war that lasted from 1979 to 1989. As a result of this war, the Soviet Union collapsed, exhausted both economically and psychologically.
The Mujahedeen, who were fighting the Soviets as well as the left-leaning government in Kabul, were encouraged and financed by the West and its allies. They came from all corners of the Muslim world, to fight a ‘Holy War’ against Communist infidels.
According to the US Department of State archives:
“Contingents of so-called Afghan Arabs and foreign fighters who wished to wage jihad against the atheist communists. Notable among them was a young Saudi named Osama bin Laden, whose Arab group eventually evolved into al-Qaeda.”
Muslim radical groups created and injected into various Muslim countries by the West included al-Qaeda, but also, more recently, ISIS (also known as ISIL). ISIS is an extremist army that was born in the ‘refugee camps’ on the Syrian/Turkish and Syrian/Jordanian borders, and which was financed by NATO and the West to fight the Syrian (secular) government of Bashar al-Assad.
Such radical implants have been serving several purposes. The West uses them as proxies in the wars it is fighting against its enemies – the countries that are still standing in the way to the Empire’s complete domination of the world. Then, somewhere down the road, after these extremist armies ‘get totally out of control’ (and they always will), they could serve as scarecrows and as justification for the ‘The War On Terror’, or, like after ISIS took Mosul, as an excuse for the re-engagement of Western troops in Iraq.
Stories about the radical Muslim groups have constantly been paraded on the front pages of newspapers and magazines, or shown on television monitors, reminding readers ‘how dangerous the world really is’, ‘how important Western engagement in it is’, and consequently, how important surveillance is, how indispensable security measures are, as well as tremendous ‘defense’ budgets and wars against countless rogue states.
From a peaceful and creative civilization, that used to lean towards socialism, the Muslim nations and Islam itself, found itself to be suddenly derailed, tricked, outmaneuvered, infiltrated by foreign religious and ideological implants, and transformed by the Western ideologues and propagandists into one ‘tremendous threat’; into the pinnacle and symbol of terrorism and intolerance.
The situation has been thoroughly grotesque, but nobody is really laughing – too many people have died as a result; too much has been destroyed!
Indonesia is one of the most striking historical examples of how such mechanisms of the destruction of progressive Muslim values, really functions:
In the 1950s and early 1960s, the US, Australia and the West in general, were increasingly ‘concerned’ about the progressive anti-imperialist and internationalist stand of President Sukarno, and about the increasing popularity of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). But they were even more anxious about the enlightened, socialist and moderate Indonesian brand of Islam, which was clearly allying itself with Communist ideals.
Christian anti-Communist ideologues and ‘planners’, including the notorious Jesuit Joop Beek, infiltrated Indonesia. They set up clandestine organizations there, from ideological to paramilitary ones, helping the West to plan the coup that in and after 1965 took between 1 and 3 million human lives.
Shaped in the West, the extremely effective anti-Communist and anti-intellectual propaganda spread by Joop Beek and his cohorts also helped to brainwash many members of large Muslim organizations, propelling them into joining the killing of Leftists, immediately after the coup. Little did they know that Islam, not only Communism, was chosen as the main target of the pro-Western, Christian ‘fifth column’ inside Indonesia, or more precisely, the target was the left-leaning, liberal Islam.
After the 1965 coup, the Western-sponsored fascist dictator, General Suharto, used Joop Beek as his main advisor. He also relied on Beek’s ‘students’, ideologically. Economically, the regime related itself with mainly Christian business tycoons, including Liem Bian Kie.
In the most populous Muslim nation on earth, Indonesia, Muslims were sidelined, their ‘unreliable’ political parties banned during the dictatorship, and both the politics (covertly) and economy (overtly) fell under the strict control of Christian, pro-Western minority. To this day, this minority has its complex and venomous net of anti-Communist warriors, closely-knit business cartels and mafias, media and ‘educational outlets’ including private religious schools, as well as corrupt religious preachers (many played a role in the 1965 massacres), and other collaborators with both the local and global regime.
Indonesian Islam has been reduced to a silent majority, mostly poor and without any significant influence. It only makes international headlines when its frustrated white-robed militants go trashing bars, or when its extremists, many related to the Mujahedeen and the Soviet-Afghan War, go blowing up nightclubs, hotels or restaurants in Bali and Jakarta.
Or do they even do that, really?
Former President of Indonesia and progressive Muslim cleric, Abdurrahman Wahid (forced out of office by the elites), once told me:
“I know who blew up the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta. It was not an attack by the Islamists; it was done by the Indonesian secret services, in order to justify their existence and budget, and to please the West.”
“I would argue that western imperialism has not so much forged an alliance with radical factions, as created them”, I was told, in London, by my friend, and leading progressive Muslim intellectual, Ziauddin Sardar.
And Mr. Sardar continued:
“We need to realize that colonialism did much more than simply damage Muslim nations and cultures. It played a major part in the suppression and eventual disappearance of knowledge and learning, thought and creativity, from Muslim cultures. Colonial encounter began by appropriating the knowledge and learning of Islam, which became the basis of the ‘European Renaissance’ and ‘the Enlightenment’ and ended by eradicating this knowledge and learning from both Muslim societies and from history itself. It did that both by physical elimination – destroying and closing down institutions of learning, banning certain types of indigenous knowledge, killing off local thinkers and scholars – and by rewriting History as the history of western civilization into which all minor histories of other civilization are subsumed.”
From the hopes of those post-WWII years, to the total gloom of the present days – what a long and terrible journey is has been!
The Muslim world is now injured, humiliated and confused, almost always on the defensive.
It is misunderstood by the outsiders, and often even by its own people who are frequently forced to rely on Western and Christian views of the world.
What used to make the culture of Islam so attractive – tolerance, learning, concern for the wellbeing of the people – has been amputated from the Muslim realm, destroyed from abroad. What was left was only religion.
Now most of the Muslim countries are ruled by despots, by the military or corrupt cliques. All of them closely linked with the West and its global regime and interests.
As they did in several great nations and Empires of South and Central America, as well as Africa, Western invaders and colonizers managed to totally annihilate great Muslim cultures.
What forcefully replaced them were greed, corruption and brutality.
It appears that everything that is based on different, non-Christian foundations is being reduced to dust by the Empire. Only the biggest and toughest cultures are still surviving.
Anytime a Muslim country tries to go back to its essence, to march its own, socialist or socially-oriented way – be it Iran, Egypt, Indonesia, or much more recently Iraq, Libya or Syria – it gets savagely tortured and destroyed.
The will of its people is unceremoniously broken, and democratically expressed choices overthrown.
For decades, Palestine has been denied freedom, as well as its basic human rights. Both Israel and the Empire spit at its right to self-determination. Palestinian people are locked in a ghetto, humiliated, and murdered. Religion is all that some of them have left.
The ‘Arab Spring’ was derailed and terminated almost everywhere, from Egypt to Bahrain, and the old regimes and military are back in power.
Like African people, Muslims are paying terrible price for being born in countries rich in natural resources. But they are also brutalized for having, together with China, the greatest civilization in history, one that outshone all the cultures of the West.
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Christianity looted and brutalized the world. Islam, with its great Sultans such as Saladin, stood against invaders, defending the great cities of Aleppo and Damascus, Cairo and Jerusalem. But overall, it was more interested in building a great civilization, than in pillaging and wars.
Now hardly anyone in the West knows about Saladin or about the great scientific, artistic or social achievements of the Muslim world. But everybody is ‘well informed’ about ISIS. Of course they know ISIS only as an ‘Islamic extremist group’, not as one of the main Western tools used to destabilize the Middle East.
As ‘France is mourning’ the deaths of the journalists at the offices of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo (undeniably a terrible crime!), all over Europe it is again Islam which is being depicted as brutal and militant, not the West with its post-Crusade, Christian fundamentalist doctrines that keeps overthrowing and slaughtering all moderate, secular and progressive governments and systems in the Muslim world, leaving Muslim people at the mercy of deranged fanatics.
In the last five decades, around 10 million Muslims have been murdered because their countries did not serve the Empire, or did not serve it full-heartedly, or just were in the way. The victims were Indonesians, Iraqis, Algerians, Afghanis, Pakistanis, Iranians, Yemenis, Syrians, Lebanese, Egyptians, and the citizens of Mali, Somalia, Bahrain and many other countries.
The West identified the most horrible monsters, threw billions of dollars at them, armed them, gave them advanced military training, and then let them loose.
The countries that are breeding terrorism, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are some of the closest allies of the West, and have never been punished for exporting horror all over the Muslim world.
Great social Muslim movements like Hezbollah, which is presently engaged in mortal combat against the ISIS, but which also used to galvanize Lebanon during its fight against the Israeli invasion, are on the “terrorist lists” compiled by the West. It explains a lot, if anybody is willing to pay attention.
Seen from the Middle East, it appears that the West, just as during the crusades, is aiming at the absolute destruction of Muslim countries and the Muslim culture.
As for the Muslim religion, the Empire only accepts the sheepish brands – those that accept extreme capitalism and the dominant global position of the West. The only other tolerable type of Islam is that which is manufactured by the West itself, and by its allies in the Gulf – designated to fight against progress and social justice; the one that is devouring its own people.
Andre Vltchek is a novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. The result is his latest book: “Fighting Against Western Imperialism”. ‘Pluto’ published his discussion with Noam Chomsky: On Western Terrorism. His critically acclaimed political novel Point of No Return is re-edited and available. Oceania is his book on Western imperialism in the South Pacific. His provocative book about post-Suharto Indonesia and the market-fundamentalist model is called “Indonesia – The Archipelago of Fear”. His feature documentary, “Rwanda Gambit” is about Rwandan history and the plunder of DR Congo. After living for many years in Latin America and Oceania, Vltchek presently resides and works in East Asia and Africa. He can be reached through his website or his Twitter.
Copyright © Andre Vltchek, CounterPunch, 2015
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The same could be said about many other Muslim societies, including those of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt and Indonesia. Old photos speak for themselves. That is why it is so important to study old images again and again, carefully.
Islam is not only a religion; it is also an enormous culture, one of the greatest on Earth, which has enriched our humanity with some of the paramount scientific and architectural achievements, and with countless discoveries in the field of medicine. Muslims have written stunning poetry, and composed beautiful music. But above all, they developed some of the earliest social structures in the world, including enormous public hospitals and the first universities on earth, like The University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco.
The idea of ‘social’ was natural to many Muslim politicians, and had the West not brutally interfered, by overthrowing left-wing governments and putting on the throne fascist allies of London, Washington and Paris; almost all Muslim countries, including Iran, Egypt and Indonesia, would now most likely be socialist, under a group of very moderate and mostly secular leaders.
In the past, countless Muslim leaders stood up against the Western control of the world, and enormous figures like the Indonesian President, Ahmet Sukarno, were close to Communist Parties and ideologies. Sukarno even forged a global anti-imperialist movement, the Non-Allied movement, which was clearly defined during the Bandung Conference in Indonesia, in 1955.
That was in striking contrast to the conservative, elites-oriented Christianity, which mostly felt at home with the fascist rulers and colonialists, with the kings, traders and big business oligarchs.
For the Empire, the existence and popularity of progressive, Marxist, Muslim rulers governing the Middle East or resource-rich Indonesia, was something clearly unacceptable. If they were to use the natural wealth to improve the lives of their people, what was to be left for the Empire and its corporations? It had to be stopped by all means. Islam had to be divided, and infiltrated with radicals and anti-Communist cadres, and by those who couldn’t care less about the welfare of their people.
Almost all radical movements in today’s Islam, anywhere in the world, are tied to Wahhabism, an ultra-conservative, reactionary sect of Islam, which is in control of the political life of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other staunch allies of the West in the Gulf.
To quote Dr. Abdullah Mohammad Sindi:
“It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant…”
The West gave full support to the Wahhabis in the 1980s. They were employed, financed and armed, after the Soviet Union was dragged into Afghanistan and into a bitter war that lasted from 1979 to 1989. As a result of this war, the Soviet Union collapsed, exhausted both economically and psychologically.
The Mujahedeen, who were fighting the Soviets as well as the left-leaning government in Kabul, were encouraged and financed by the West and its allies. They came from all corners of the Muslim world, to fight a ‘Holy War’ against Communist infidels.
According to the US Department of State archives:
“Contingents of so-called Afghan Arabs and foreign fighters who wished to wage jihad against the atheist communists. Notable among them was a young Saudi named Osama bin Laden, whose Arab group eventually evolved into al-Qaeda.”
Muslim radical groups created and injected into various Muslim countries by the West included al-Qaeda, but also, more recently, ISIS (also known as ISIL). ISIS is an extremist army that was born in the ‘refugee camps’ on the Syrian/Turkish and Syrian/Jordanian borders, and which was financed by NATO and the West to fight the Syrian (secular) government of Bashar al-Assad.
Such radical implants have been serving several purposes. The West uses them as proxies in the wars it is fighting against its enemies – the countries that are still standing in the way to the Empire’s complete domination of the world. Then, somewhere down the road, after these extremist armies ‘get totally out of control’ (and they always will), they could serve as scarecrows and as justification for the ‘The War On Terror’, or, like after ISIS took Mosul, as an excuse for the re-engagement of Western troops in Iraq.
Stories about the radical Muslim groups have constantly been paraded on the front pages of newspapers and magazines, or shown on television monitors, reminding readers ‘how dangerous the world really is’, ‘how important Western engagement in it is’, and consequently, how important surveillance is, how indispensable security measures are, as well as tremendous ‘defense’ budgets and wars against countless rogue states.
From a peaceful and creative civilization, that used to lean towards socialism, the Muslim nations and Islam itself, found itself to be suddenly derailed, tricked, outmaneuvered, infiltrated by foreign religious and ideological implants, and transformed by the Western ideologues and propagandists into one ‘tremendous threat’; into the pinnacle and symbol of terrorism and intolerance.
The situation has been thoroughly grotesque, but nobody is really laughing – too many people have died as a result; too much has been destroyed!
Indonesia is one of the most striking historical examples of how such mechanisms of the destruction of progressive Muslim values, really functions:
In the 1950s and early 1960s, the US, Australia and the West in general, were increasingly ‘concerned’ about the progressive anti-imperialist and internationalist stand of President Sukarno, and about the increasing popularity of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). But they were even more anxious about the enlightened, socialist and moderate Indonesian brand of Islam, which was clearly allying itself with Communist ideals.
Christian anti-Communist ideologues and ‘planners’, including the notorious Jesuit Joop Beek, infiltrated Indonesia. They set up clandestine organizations there, from ideological to paramilitary ones, helping the West to plan the coup that in and after 1965 took between 1 and 3 million human lives.
Shaped in the West, the extremely effective anti-Communist and anti-intellectual propaganda spread by Joop Beek and his cohorts also helped to brainwash many members of large Muslim organizations, propelling them into joining the killing of Leftists, immediately after the coup. Little did they know that Islam, not only Communism, was chosen as the main target of the pro-Western, Christian ‘fifth column’ inside Indonesia, or more precisely, the target was the left-leaning, liberal Islam.
After the 1965 coup, the Western-sponsored fascist dictator, General Suharto, used Joop Beek as his main advisor. He also relied on Beek’s ‘students’, ideologically. Economically, the regime related itself with mainly Christian business tycoons, including Liem Bian Kie.
In the most populous Muslim nation on earth, Indonesia, Muslims were sidelined, their ‘unreliable’ political parties banned during the dictatorship, and both the politics (covertly) and economy (overtly) fell under the strict control of Christian, pro-Western minority. To this day, this minority has its complex and venomous net of anti-Communist warriors, closely-knit business cartels and mafias, media and ‘educational outlets’ including private religious schools, as well as corrupt religious preachers (many played a role in the 1965 massacres), and other collaborators with both the local and global regime.
Indonesian Islam has been reduced to a silent majority, mostly poor and without any significant influence. It only makes international headlines when its frustrated white-robed militants go trashing bars, or when its extremists, many related to the Mujahedeen and the Soviet-Afghan War, go blowing up nightclubs, hotels or restaurants in Bali and Jakarta.
Or do they even do that, really?
Former President of Indonesia and progressive Muslim cleric, Abdurrahman Wahid (forced out of office by the elites), once told me:
“I know who blew up the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta. It was not an attack by the Islamists; it was done by the Indonesian secret services, in order to justify their existence and budget, and to please the West.”
“I would argue that western imperialism has not so much forged an alliance with radical factions, as created them”, I was told, in London, by my friend, and leading progressive Muslim intellectual, Ziauddin Sardar.
And Mr. Sardar continued:
“We need to realize that colonialism did much more than simply damage Muslim nations and cultures. It played a major part in the suppression and eventual disappearance of knowledge and learning, thought and creativity, from Muslim cultures. Colonial encounter began by appropriating the knowledge and learning of Islam, which became the basis of the ‘European Renaissance’ and ‘the Enlightenment’ and ended by eradicating this knowledge and learning from both Muslim societies and from history itself. It did that both by physical elimination – destroying and closing down institutions of learning, banning certain types of indigenous knowledge, killing off local thinkers and scholars – and by rewriting History as the history of western civilization into which all minor histories of other civilization are subsumed.”
From the hopes of those post-WWII years, to the total gloom of the present days – what a long and terrible journey is has been!
The Muslim world is now injured, humiliated and confused, almost always on the defensive.
It is misunderstood by the outsiders, and often even by its own people who are frequently forced to rely on Western and Christian views of the world.
What used to make the culture of Islam so attractive – tolerance, learning, concern for the wellbeing of the people – has been amputated from the Muslim realm, destroyed from abroad. What was left was only religion.
Now most of the Muslim countries are ruled by despots, by the military or corrupt cliques. All of them closely linked with the West and its global regime and interests.
As they did in several great nations and Empires of South and Central America, as well as Africa, Western invaders and colonizers managed to totally annihilate great Muslim cultures.
What forcefully replaced them were greed, corruption and brutality.
It appears that everything that is based on different, non-Christian foundations is being reduced to dust by the Empire. Only the biggest and toughest cultures are still surviving.
Anytime a Muslim country tries to go back to its essence, to march its own, socialist or socially-oriented way – be it Iran, Egypt, Indonesia, or much more recently Iraq, Libya or Syria – it gets savagely tortured and destroyed.
The will of its people is unceremoniously broken, and democratically expressed choices overthrown.
For decades, Palestine has been denied freedom, as well as its basic human rights. Both Israel and the Empire spit at its right to self-determination. Palestinian people are locked in a ghetto, humiliated, and murdered. Religion is all that some of them have left.
The ‘Arab Spring’ was derailed and terminated almost everywhere, from Egypt to Bahrain, and the old regimes and military are back in power.
Like African people, Muslims are paying terrible price for being born in countries rich in natural resources. But they are also brutalized for having, together with China, the greatest civilization in history, one that outshone all the cultures of the West.
***
Christianity looted and brutalized the world. Islam, with its great Sultans such as Saladin, stood against invaders, defending the great cities of Aleppo and Damascus, Cairo and Jerusalem. But overall, it was more interested in building a great civilization, than in pillaging and wars.
Now hardly anyone in the West knows about Saladin or about the great scientific, artistic or social achievements of the Muslim world. But everybody is ‘well informed’ about ISIS. Of course they know ISIS only as an ‘Islamic extremist group’, not as one of the main Western tools used to destabilize the Middle East.
As ‘France is mourning’ the deaths of the journalists at the offices of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo (undeniably a terrible crime!), all over Europe it is again Islam which is being depicted as brutal and militant, not the West with its post-Crusade, Christian fundamentalist doctrines that keeps overthrowing and slaughtering all moderate, secular and progressive governments and systems in the Muslim world, leaving Muslim people at the mercy of deranged fanatics.
In the last five decades, around 10 million Muslims have been murdered because their countries did not serve the Empire, or did not serve it full-heartedly, or just were in the way. The victims were Indonesians, Iraqis, Algerians, Afghanis, Pakistanis, Iranians, Yemenis, Syrians, Lebanese, Egyptians, and the citizens of Mali, Somalia, Bahrain and many other countries.
The West identified the most horrible monsters, threw billions of dollars at them, armed them, gave them advanced military training, and then let them loose.
The countries that are breeding terrorism, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are some of the closest allies of the West, and have never been punished for exporting horror all over the Muslim world.
Great social Muslim movements like Hezbollah, which is presently engaged in mortal combat against the ISIS, but which also used to galvanize Lebanon during its fight against the Israeli invasion, are on the “terrorist lists” compiled by the West. It explains a lot, if anybody is willing to pay attention.
Seen from the Middle East, it appears that the West, just as during the crusades, is aiming at the absolute destruction of Muslim countries and the Muslim culture.
As for the Muslim religion, the Empire only accepts the sheepish brands – those that accept extreme capitalism and the dominant global position of the West. The only other tolerable type of Islam is that which is manufactured by the West itself, and by its allies in the Gulf – designated to fight against progress and social justice; the one that is devouring its own people.
Andre Vltchek is a novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. The result is his latest book: “Fighting Against Western Imperialism”. ‘Pluto’ published his discussion with Noam Chomsky: On Western Terrorism. His critically acclaimed political novel Point of No Return is re-edited and available. Oceania is his book on Western imperialism in the South Pacific. His provocative book about post-Suharto Indonesia and the market-fundamentalist model is called “Indonesia – The Archipelago of Fear”. His feature documentary, “Rwanda Gambit” is about Rwandan history and the plunder of DR Congo. After living for many years in Latin America and Oceania, Vltchek presently resides and works in East Asia and Africa. He can be reached through his website or his Twitter.
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Siapa yang Harus Disalahkan untuk "Muslim Terorisme"?
Sumber: http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-should-be-blamed-for-muslim-terrorism/5424026
Seratus tahun yang lalu, tak terbayangkan untuk memiliki sepasang pria Muslim memasuki kafe atau kendaraan angkutan umum, dan kemudian meledakkan diri mereka, menewaskan puluhan. Atau untuk pembantaian staf majalah satir di Paris! Hal-hal seperti yang hanya tidak dilakukan.
Ketika Anda membaca memoar Edward Said, atau berbicara dengan orang tua dan wanita di Yerusalem Timur, menjadi jelas bahwa sebagian besar dari masyarakat Palestina digunakan harus benar-benar sekuler dan moderat. Ini peduli tentang kehidupan, budaya, dan bahkan fashion, lebih dari sekitar dogma agama.
Hal yang sama dapat dikatakan tentang banyak masyarakat Muslim lainnya, termasuk orang-orang dari Suriah, Irak, Iran, Mesir dan Indonesia. Foto-foto lama berbicara sendiri. Itulah mengapa sangat penting untuk mempelajari gambar lama lagi dan lagi, hati-hati.
Islam bukan hanya agama; itu juga merupakan budaya yang sangat besar, salah satu yang terbesar di Bumi, yang telah diperkaya kemanusiaan kita dengan beberapa prestasi ilmiah dan arsitektur penting, dan dengan penemuan yang tak terhitung jumlahnya di bidang kedokteran. Muslim telah menulis puisi yang menakjubkan, dan menggubah musik yang indah. Tetapi di atas semua, mereka mengembangkan beberapa struktur sosial yang paling awal di dunia, termasuk rumah sakit umum besar dan universitas pertama di bumi, seperti The Universitas Al-Qarawiyyin di Fez, Maroko.
Ide 'sosial' adalah alami untuk banyak politisi Muslim, dan memiliki Barat tidak ikut campur secara brutal, dengan menumbangkan pemerintah sayap kiri dan menempatkan di atas takhta sekutu fasis London, Washington dan Paris; hampir semua negara-negara Muslim, termasuk Iran, Mesir dan Indonesia, sekarang kemungkinan besar akan sosialis, di bawah sekelompok pemimpin sangat moderat dan sebagian besar sekuler.
Di masa lalu, para pemimpin Muslim yang tak terhitung jumlahnya berdiri melawan kontrol Barat dunia, dan tokoh-tokoh besar seperti Presiden Indonesia, Soekarno Ahmet, yang dekat dengan Partai Komunis dan ideologi. Sukarno bahkan ditempa gerakan anti-imperialis global, gerakan Non-Sekutu, yang jelas selama Konferensi Bandung di Indonesia, pada tahun 1955.
Itu sangat kontras dengan konservatif, elit-berorientasi Kristen, yang sebagian besar merasa di rumah dengan penguasa fasis dan kolonialis, dengan raja, pedagang dan oligarki bisnis besar.
Untuk Kekaisaran, keberadaan dan popularitas progresif, Marxis, penguasa Muslim yang mengatur Timur Tengah atau kaya sumber daya Indonesia, adalah sesuatu yang jelas tidak dapat diterima. Jika mereka menggunakan kekayaan alam untuk meningkatkan kehidupan orang-orang mereka, apa yang akan tersisa untuk Kekaisaran dan perusahaan yang? Ini harus dihentikan dengan segala cara. Islam harus dibagi, dan menyusup dengan radikal dan kader anti-komunis, dan oleh mereka yang tidak peduli tentang kesejahteraan rakyat mereka.
Hampir semua gerakan radikal dalam Islam hari ini, di mana saja di dunia, terikat dengan Wahhabisme, sebuah sekte reaksioner ultra-konservatif Islam, yang mengendalikan kehidupan politik Arab Saudi, Qatar dan sekutu setia lainnya dari Barat di Teluk.
Mengutip Dr Abdullah Mohammad Sindi:
"Hal ini sangat jelas dari catatan sejarah bahwa tanpa bantuan Inggris tidak Wahhabisme maupun House of Saud akan ada sekarang. Wahhabisme adalah gerakan fundamentalis Inggris-terinspirasi dalam Islam. Melalui pertahanan dari House of Saud, AS juga mendukung Wahhabisme langsung dan tidak langsung terlepas dari serangan teroris 11 September 2001. Wahhabisme adalah kekerasan, sayap kanan, ultra-konservatif, kaku, ekstrimis, reaksioner, seksis, dan toleran ... "
Barat memberikan dukungan penuh kepada Wahhabi pada 1980-an. Mereka dipekerjakan, dibiayai dan dipersenjatai, setelah Uni Soviet diseret ke Afghanistan dan menjadi perang pahit yang berlangsung dari 1979 hingga 1989. Akibat perang ini, Uni Soviet runtuh, kelelahan baik secara ekonomi dan psikologis.
Mujahidin, yang memerangi Soviet serta pemerintah berhaluan kiri di Kabul, didorong dan dibiayai oleh Barat dan sekutunya. Mereka datang dari seluruh penjuru dunia Muslim, untuk melawan 'Perang Suci' terhadap orang-orang kafir komunis.
Menurut US Department of arsip Negara:
"Kontingen yang disebut Afghanistan Arab dan pejuang asing yang ingin melakukan jihad melawan komunis ateis. Terkenal di antara mereka adalah seorang Arab muda bernama Osama bin Laden, yang kelompoknya Arab akhirnya berkembang menjadi al-Qaeda. "
Kelompok radikal Muslim dibuat dan disuntikkan ke berbagai negara Muslim oleh Barat termasuk al-Qaeda, tetapi juga, baru-baru ini, ISIS (juga dikenal sebagai ISIL). ISIS adalah tentara ekstrimis yang lahir di 'kamp-kamp pengungsi' di Suriah / Turki dan Suriah / Yordania perbatasan, dan yang dibiayai oleh NATO dan Barat untuk melawan Suriah (sekuler) pemerintah Bashar al-Assad.
Implan radikal seperti telah melayani beberapa tujuan. Barat menggunakan mereka sebagai proxy dalam perang itu berperang melawan musuh-musuhnya - negara-negara yang masih berdiri di jalan untuk dominasi Kekaisaran lengkap dunia. Kemudian, di suatu tempat di jalan, setelah tentara ekstremis ini 'mendapatkan benar-benar di luar kendali' (dan mereka selalu akan), mereka bisa berfungsi sebagai orang-orangan dan sebagai pembenaran untuk 'The War On Terror', atau, seperti setelah ISIS mengambil Mosul, sebagai alasan untuk kembali keterlibatan pasukan Barat di Irak.
Cerita tentang kelompok-kelompok Muslim radikal terus telah diarak di halaman depan surat kabar dan majalah, atau ditampilkan pada monitor televisi, mengingatkan pembaca betapa berbahayanya dunia benar-benar ',' betapa pentingnya Barat keterlibatan di dalamnya adalah ', dan akibatnya, bagaimana surveilans penting adalah, bagaimana langkah-langkah keamanan yang sangat diperlukan adalah, serta anggaran yang luar biasa 'pertahanan' dan perang melawan negara-negara nakal yang tak terhitung jumlahnya.
Dari peradaban damai dan kreatif, yang digunakan untuk bersandar menuju sosialisme, negara-negara Muslim dan Islam itu sendiri, menemukan dirinya untuk menjadi tiba-tiba tergelincir, ditipu, dikalahkan, disusupi oleh implan agama dan ideologi asing, dan diubah oleh ideolog Barat dan propagandis menjadi satu 'ancaman yang luar biasa'; ke puncak dan simbol terorisme dan intoleransi.
Situasi telah benar-benar aneh, tapi tidak ada yang benar-benar tertawa - terlalu banyak orang telah meninggal sebagai akibatnya; terlalu banyak telah hancur!
Indonesia adalah salah satu contoh sejarah yang paling mencolok dari mekanisme bagaimana seperti penghancuran nilai-nilai Islam yang progresif, benar-benar fungsi:
Pada 1950-an dan awal 1960-an, AS, Australia dan Barat pada umumnya, yang semakin 'prihatin' tentang anti-imperialis dan internasionalis berdiri progresif Presiden Sukarno, dan tentang meningkatnya popularitas Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI). Tapi mereka lebih cemas tentang merek Indonesia tercerahkan, sosialis dan Islam moderat, yang jelas bersekutu diri dengan cita-cita komunis.
Ideolog Kristen anti-komunis dan 'perencana', termasuk yang terkenal Jesuit Joop Beek, menyusup Indonesia. Mereka mendirikan organisasi klandestin di sana, dari ideologi untuk yang paramiliter, membantu Barat untuk merencanakan kudeta yang masuk dan setelah tahun 1965 mengambil antara 1 dan 3 juta nyawa manusia.
Berbentuk di Barat, yang sangat efektif anti-komunis dan anti-intelektual propaganda penyebaran oleh Joop Beek dan para pengikutnya juga membantu untuk mencuci otak banyak anggota organisasi Muslim besar, mendorong mereka untuk bergabung pembunuhan Kaum Kiri, segera setelah kudeta. Sedikit yang mereka tahu bahwa Islam, tidak hanya komunisme, dipilih sebagai target utama pro-Barat, Christian 'kolom kelima' dalam Indonesia, atau lebih tepatnya, target adalah berhaluan kiri, Islam liberal.
Setelah kudeta 1965, diktator fasis Barat yang disponsori, Jenderal Suharto, digunakan Joop Beek sebagai penasihat utamanya. Dia juga mengandalkan Beek ini 'siswa', ideologis. Ekonomis, rezim terkait itu sendiri dengan taipan bisnis terutama Kristen, termasuk Liem Bian Kie.
Di negara Muslim terpadat di bumi, Indonesia, Muslim absen, partai politik 'tidak dapat diandalkan' mereka dilarang selama kediktatoran, dan kedua politik (diam-diam) dan ekonomi (terang-terangan) jatuh di bawah kontrol yang ketat dari Kristen, minoritas yang pro-Barat . Untuk hari ini, minoritas ini memiliki net kompleks dan berbisa yang prajurit anti-komunis, kartel bisnis erat-merajut dan mafia, media dan 'outlet pendidikan' termasuk sekolah agama swasta, serta pengkhotbah agama yang korup (banyak memainkan peran dalam 1965 pembantaian), dan kolaborator lainnya dengan kedua rezim lokal dan global.
Islam Indonesia telah direduksi menjadi mayoritas diam, sebagian besar miskin dan tanpa pengaruh signifikan. Ini hanya membuat berita utama internasional ketika militan putih berjubah frustrasi yang go bar mencemari, atau ketika ekstrimis, banyak terkait dengan Mujahidin dan Perang Soviet-Afganistan, pergi meledakkan klub malam, hotel atau restoran di Bali dan Jakarta.
Atau apakah mereka bahkan melakukan itu, benar-benar?
Mantan Presiden Indonesia dan ulama Muslim progresif, Abdurrahman Wahid (dipaksa keluar dari kantor oleh elit), pernah mengatakan kepada saya:
"Aku tahu siapa meledakkan Hotel Marriott di Jakarta. Itu bukan serangan oleh kelompok Islam; hal itu dilakukan oleh dinas rahasia Indonesia, untuk membenarkan keberadaan dan anggaran mereka, dan untuk menyenangkan Barat. "
"Saya berpendapat bahwa imperialisme Barat belum begitu banyak menjalin aliansi dengan faksi radikal, seperti menciptakan mereka", saya diberitahu, di London, oleh teman saya, dan memimpin intelektual Muslim yang progresif, Ziauddin Sardar.
Dan Mr. Sardar melanjutkan:
"Kita perlu menyadari bahwa kolonialisme melakukan lebih dari sekedar merusak bangsa dan budaya Muslim. Ini memainkan peranan utama dalam penindasan dan akhirnya hilangnya pengetahuan dan pembelajaran, pemikiran dan kreativitas, budaya Muslim. Pertemuan kolonial mulai dengan mengambil alih pengetahuan dan pembelajaran Islam, yang menjadi dasar dari 'Eropa Renaissance' dan 'Pencerahan' dan berakhir dengan memberantas pengetahuan dan belajar dari kedua masyarakat Muslim dan dari sejarah itu sendiri. Hal itu yang baik oleh eliminasi fisik - menghancurkan dan menutup lembaga pembelajaran, melarang beberapa jenis pengetahuan adat, membunuh pemikir lokal dan ulama - dan dengan menulis ulang sejarah sebagai sejarah peradaban Barat di mana semua sejarah kecil dari peradaban lain digolongkan . "
Dari harapan mereka pasca-Perang Dunia II tahun, dengan total kesuraman hari ini - apa perjalanan panjang dan mengerikan yang telah!
Dunia Muslim kini terluka, terhina dan bingung, hampir selalu defensif.
Hal ini disalahpahami oleh orang luar, dan sering bahkan oleh orang-orang sendiri yang sering dipaksa untuk mengandalkan pandangan Barat dan Kristen dunia.
Apa yang digunakan untuk membuat budaya Islam begitu menarik - toleransi, belajar, perhatian untuk kesejahteraan rakyat - telah diamputasi dari alam Muslim, hancur dari luar negeri. Apa yang tersisa hanya agama.
Sekarang sebagian besar negara-negara Muslim yang diperintah oleh penguasa lalim, oleh geng militer atau rusak. Semua dari mereka terkait erat dengan Barat dan rezim dan kepentingan global.
Seperti yang mereka lakukan di beberapa negara besar dan Empires dari Amerika Selatan dan Tengah, serta Afrika, penjajah Barat dan penjajah berhasil benar-benar memusnahkan budaya Muslim yang besar.
Apa paksa menggantikan mereka yang keserakahan, korupsi dan kebrutalan.
Tampaknya bahwa segala sesuatu yang didasarkan pada, yayasan non-Kristen yang berbeda sedang dikurangi menjadi debu oleh Kekaisaran. Hanya budaya terbesar dan terberat masih bertahan.
Kapan negara Muslim mencoba untuk kembali ke esensinya, untuk berbaris sendiri, cara sosialis atau sosial yang berorientasi - baik itu Iran, Mesir, Indonesia, atau lebih baru-baru Irak, Libya atau Suriah - itu akan kejam disiksa dan dihancurkan.
Kehendak rakyatnya yang begitu saja rusak, dan pilihan yang diungkapkan secara demokratis digulingkan.
Selama beberapa dekade, Palestina telah ditolak kebebasan, serta hak asasi manusia dasar. Baik Israel dan Kekaisaran meludah di haknya untuk menentukan nasib sendiri. Orang Palestina terkunci dalam ghetto, dipermalukan, dan dibunuh. Agama adalah semua bahwa beberapa dari mereka telah meninggalkan.
The 'Musim Semi Arab' itu tergelincir dan diakhiri hampir di mana-mana, dari Mesir ke Bahrain, dan rezim lama dan militer kembali berkuasa.
Seperti orang Afrika, Muslim membayar harga yang mengerikan untuk dilahirkan di negara-negara kaya sumber daya alam. Tetapi mereka juga brutal untuk memiliki, bersama dengan China, peradaban terbesar dalam sejarah, salah satu yang outshone semua budaya Barat.
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Kristen dijarah dan brutal dunia. Islam, dengan Sultan yang besar seperti Saladin, berdiri melawan penjajah, membela kota besar Aleppo dan Damaskus, Kairo dan Yerusalem. Tapi secara keseluruhan, itu lebih tertarik dalam membangun sebuah peradaban besar, daripada di penjarahan dan perang.
Sekarang hampir tidak ada di Barat yang tahu tentang Saladin atau tentang prestasi ilmiah, artistik atau sosial yang besar dari dunia Muslim. Tapi semua orang 'baik informasi' tentang ISIS. Tentu saja mereka tahu ISIS hanya sebagai 'kelompok ekstremis Islam', bukan sebagai salah satu alat utama yang digunakan Barat untuk mengacaukan Timur Tengah.
Sebagai 'Perancis berkabung' kematian para wartawan di kantor majalah satir, Charlie Hebdo (disangkal kejahatan mengerikan!), Seluruh Eropa itu lagi Islam yang sedang digambarkan sebagai brutal dan militan, tidak Barat dengan nya pasca-Perang Salib, doktrin fundamentalis Kristen yang terus menggulingkan dan membantai semua pemerintah dan sistem moderat, sekuler dan progresif di dunia Muslim, meninggalkan orang Muslim pada belas kasihan dari fanatik gila.
Dalam lima dekade terakhir, sekitar 10 juta Muslim telah dibunuh karena negara mereka tidak melayani Kekaisaran, atau tidak melayani full-hati, atau hanya berada di jalan. Para korban orang Indonesia, Irak, Aljazair, Afghan, Pakistan, Iran, Yaman, Suriah, Lebanon, Mesir, dan warga Mali, Somalia, Bahrain dan banyak negara lainnya.
Barat diidentifikasi monster paling mengerikan, melemparkan miliaran dolar pada mereka, dipersenjatai mereka, memberi pelatihan militer canggih mereka, dan kemudian membiarkan mereka lepas.
Negara-negara yang berkembang biak terorisme, Arab Saudi dan Qatar, adalah beberapa sekutu terdekat dari Barat, dan tidak pernah dihukum untuk mengekspor horor di seluruh dunia Muslim.
Gerakan Muslim besar sosial seperti Hizbullah, yang saat ini terlibat dalam pertempuran fana melawan ISIS, tetapi yang juga digunakan untuk menggembleng Libanon selama perang melawan invasi Israel, berada di "daftar teroris" yang disusun oleh Barat. Ini menjelaskan banyak, kalau ada yang bersedia membayar perhatian.
Dilihat dari Timur Tengah, tampak bahwa Barat, seperti selama Perang Salib, bertujuan untuk menghancurkan mutlak negara-negara Muslim dan budaya Muslim.
Adapun agama Islam, Kekaisaran hanya menerima merek malu-malu - mereka yang menerima kapitalisme ekstrim dan posisi global yang dominan dari Barat. Satu-satunya jenis ditoleransi Islam lainnya adalah bahwa yang diproduksi oleh Barat itu sendiri, dan dengan sekutu-sekutunya di Teluk - yang ditunjuk untuk melawan kemajuan dan keadilan sosial; salah satu yang melahap rakyatnya sendiri.
Andre Vltchek adalah seorang novelis, pembuat film dan wartawan investigasi. Dia menutupi perang dan konflik di berbagai negara. Hasilnya adalah buku terbarunya: "Berjuang Melawan Imperialisme Barat". 'Pluto' diterbitkan diskusi dengan Noam Chomsky: On Barat Terorisme. Nya kritis diakui Novel politik Point of No Return yang kembali diedit dan tersedia. Oceania adalah buku tentang imperialisme Barat di Pasifik Selatan. Buku provokatif tentang Indonesia pasca-Soeharto dan model fundamentalis pasar disebut "Indonesia - The Archipelago of Fear". Dokumenter fitur nya, "Rwanda Gambit" adalah tentang sejarah Rwanda dan penjarahan DR Kongo. Setelah tinggal selama bertahun-tahun di Amerika Latin dan Oceania, Vltchek saat berada dan bekerja di Asia Timur dan Afrika. Dia dapat dihubungi melalui website atau Twitter-nya.
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