‘FIGHTING TERRORISM’ AND BECOMING STATE TERRORISTS THEMSELVES AND CREATING NEW WAR CRIMINALS FOR NOTHING.
…USING WRONG WEAPONS AND METHODS TO FIGHT TERRORISM AND EXPOSING THEIR STUPIDITY AND RUTHLESSNESS.
By Mansor Puteh.
TERRORISM WAS A WESTERN INVENTION CREATED BY THE CATHOLIC AND CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES OF ENGLAND AND EUROPE, WHICH EMBARKED ON THEIR RUTHLESS AND SENSELESS ‘JOURNEY OF HOPE’ IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY TO INVADE COUNTRIES AND TO DESTROY THEIR COLORFUL AND PEACEFUL CIVILIZATIONS. IT IS A FACT THAT NO-ONE CAN DISPUTE.
It is at times like these that we want to return to America during the time of President John F Kennedy.
One could go in and out of America with so much ease but not to the Soviet Union or the Communist bloc countries where one cannot move anywhere without being watched and trailed.
The American embassies could organize cultural and artistic functions without fearing about its security.
How times have indeed change, for the worse for America and it is also not for the better for the Russians, too, the two so-called superpowers who have lost their way.
It’s not making it any easier and better for America and some countries which are allied with it, the more they over-react; the more they do things which are considered universally as uncivilized and totally unreasonable.
It’s not that they are in good shape economically, but politically as well. Their credibility is at stake, if they still this is important to them.
The rest of the world is watching.
Now one dreads going anywhere near them in the fortified enclaves with many security personnel and equipments.
I remember going to their open counter at the AIA Building in Jalan Ampang without being frisked or asked to declare my presence and identity or to leave any electronic gadget on the main entrance on the ground floor, and getting to see their staff when I had to apply for my student visa to study at a university in New York City in the late 1970s.
Now, one cannot be sure if one can get a visa, even if one is offered a place to study anywhere in the country, or to travel there as a tourist. Even then, one can still be barred from entering the country after landing at the airport after flying for more than 24 hours and spending a bit on the return tickets and other personal expenses.
The reverse has happened when one fears going to America but not to the former Communist countries.
It is a wise decision to find faults with 1.5 billion Muslims while protecting the well-being of only six million of another group of people?
America has its arithmetic wrong. It needs to calculate its future better and figure out what’s good for them and for everybody else in the world so we can return to the time of John F Kennedy again when Americans are free to roam even the remotest villages in the countries in the Third World.
Now they can’t even sit pretty and speak loudly in fancy cafes outside of America.
And we only have Barack Hussein Obama, which is good enough – a Black-White reincarnation of him who seems to be quite aware of America’s own follies and foibles to take his country back to the type of civilization that we know of and want to care for and admit that terrorism can be caused by countries that claim to be the true champions and defenders of democracy more than those who do not.
The future is bleak for those who had caused untold damage to democracy and world peace; they are safe for now. They can be condemned in the World Court of Public Opinion, New World Literature and New World Cinema with America and the west being turned upside down so they can get to see a better view of the whole world which they had all taken for granted for so long.
Terrorism was introduced to the Muslim World or to some Muslims, and the world at large by countries which claim to be the champions and defenders of democracy, so that they can create the cycle of confusion for which they can think they can benefit from.
It was never in the thinking and action of the Muslims whose countries have been destroyed, pillaged and plundered by the invaders from the west for centuries with many of them killed and maimed.
I may be a filmmaker by training, but my trek to 33 countries around the world over the last few decades, to attend film festivals, seminars and forums and to search for interesting stories for my books and screenplays, had allowed me to see more things that the ordinary Americans could not especially if they try to read the minds of the Muslims and putting them into two groups, Muslims whom they consider to be moderates and extremists.
What’s wrong in being an extremist, if one is extremely kind; and what good in being a moderate if one is moderately evil?
I’m afraid the Americans and English, who use such terms, do not understand the English language well. They do it in their haste to brand those who are innocent while trying to promote themselves as the New Saviors of the Old World that they had lost altogether.
So no wonder they are lost in their own thoughts and actions which have caused untold miseries to the Muslims who are now their favorite punching bag, after the Soviet Communists had been tamed – courtesy of some Muslim and Afghan warriors.
These groups are really not mentioned in the Holy Quran. So don’t blame Islam for the work of a small group of individuals who claim to profess the Islamic faith. Blame it on the biases and prejudices of those who are bent on blaming Islam. This is what is it is all about.
It is therefore, something that was invented by the less fertile minds of some Orientalists or indecent intellectuals for pure expedience; mostly to reflect their personal biases, prejudices and even abhorrence that the Muslim World does not wish to compete with the West; for the Muslims have our own different sets of goals to achieve.
Most Americans or westerners won’t know who Muslims are anymore these days from the way they look and from their names. There are more and more Muslims who also have English and other ‘strange’ sounding names, mine included and doing things that their parents could never dream of.
American world heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali, made most Americans familiar with the name of Muhammad which is perhaps the most common of all Muslim names, like George for the English when it should have been Jesus, but it is not.
And of course, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Benazir Bhutto and a host of other contemporary characters whose personas were created by the western media, too, have contributed towards the greater awareness of who and what is a Muslim in their own special and unique way – also thanks to the cynics.
Worse, they were all created by America, one way or the other! They had trusted America too much and were played by them later, after what they had tried to do for America was done.
Saddam’s fault was that he trusted America too much, and thought he could get away with some ‘petty crimes’ he thought he commit with the full blessings of America. How wrong was he, for having fallen in the trap laid by America which was not known to be grateful to its allies for having done their job for them to fight the Soviet Communists in Afghanistan where their soldiers could not dare to march into on their own?
Yes, we all know that the American aim to fight terrorism and their terrorists, which is good. Nobody can fight over that. But who are the good people of the world and who are the bad?
This is something that we have not yet decided yet. And the Muslims will never acknowledge that they are the ones who are the bad, considering that they had not caused untold miseries on any country or had destroyed it.
Terrorism in the world is not a recent activity. In modern history, it could be said to have started in the Thirteenth Century, if not earlier, when many European countries started to send out their naval fleet to wrest control of foreign countries in Asia and Africa which had long had their own civilizations and systems of government and were living at peace with each other, also in their quest to ‘discover’ the world to see if it was indeed flat.
It is just too bad that universities in the Muslim World do not have courses on the history of world terrorism and Western colonization. They definitely cannot expect those in the West to have them.
Western colonialism came into being and forced the world to be better engaged with each other. Unfortunately, this exercise brought more confusion, enmity than ever before, of which we can still feel its effect till today.
The reverse tide started to happen when the Americans started to seek independence from Britain which they finally got in 1776.
Yet they still failed to realize that there are some people in the world, including those in the Middle East have been trying to do it till now, without hope for a just solution.
Unfortunately, their enemies, too, want to do the same – to fight terrorism and their terrorists. The sufferings that their ancestors and even parents could be easily be forgotten despite their lands that had been forcibly taken from them.
Melaka (or Malacca as the British colonialists called it) was under the colonization and domination of the major European and English, including for a short period, the Japanese, for 400 years.
Despite that we still managed to keep our senses and forced them to leave. They have left just some semblance of their former influences which are being kept mostly in the concrete buildings that they had built to keep their power at bay and staff comfortable.
The local Malays were not their enemies, but time. They could not sustain their greed for long and soon enough the felt guilty. God had a way of punishing them until they became nauseous of their own behavior and attitude.
The world is now conveniently divided into distinct parts, the Muslim World and the West.
The Americans and the West have condemned Muslims and Islam for their own failures and shortcomings. They had wrongly assumed that the Muslims and Islam were incompatible with development and modernity and charged that they were envious with the way of life in the West.
The opposite seems to be the truth, since many people in the West were ‘envious’ that many Muslims had chosen to live simply even in caves without the use of any modernity. They were happy and contented, while their counterparts who had everything were not contented even with all the things that they had.
And we are supposed to be other's terrorists. No one can claim to be in full control over the definition of who and what is a terrorist, however, much one can be in the control of the media.
Does America and all Americans, therefore, hate such ‘extremists’ and their own brand of ‘extremism’? I doubt it.
The Muslim World always hopes that the American leaders, especially, and it’s public to be generous in their portrayal and description of the Muslims.
It is all about the war of the media and the Muslims and Islam getting caught along the way.
It is not only a media war. It is also not a psychological war or a war over a word. It is real as well as an imaginary war.
American leaders think they have correctly pinpointed the true malaise of the world system which is to identify the terrorists, and in doing so found a face and a religion.
How smart are their media gate-keepers and think-tankers and other policy and decision-makers and other experts for bringing out such issues, which in the past were not there before.
Otherwise, legendary Hollywood actor of the silent era, Rudolf Valentino would not have been hailed as a ‘romantic hero’ mostly for portraying Arab sheiks.
And not surprisingly, no one in America has ever brought this matter up, as thought they want this interesting and unusual aspect in its popular culture be totally forgotten, that the Arabs were profiled by Hollywood and entertainment media as such and not as ‘terrorists’.
Maybe we all should return to the age of the silent era of the cinema in Hollywood where silence spoke volumes and American lead actors are Arab sheiks again…
By Mansor Puteh.
TERRORISM WAS A WESTERN INVENTION CREATED BY THE CATHOLIC AND CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES OF ENGLAND AND EUROPE, WHICH EMBARKED ON THEIR RUTHLESS AND SENSELESS ‘JOURNEY OF HOPE’ IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY TO INVADE COUNTRIES AND TO DESTROY THEIR COLORFUL AND PEACEFUL CIVILIZATIONS. IT IS A FACT THAT NO-ONE CAN DISPUTE.
It is at times like these that we want to return to America during the time of President John F Kennedy.
One could go in and out of America with so much ease but not to the Soviet Union or the Communist bloc countries where one cannot move anywhere without being watched and trailed.
The American embassies could organize cultural and artistic functions without fearing about its security.
How times have indeed change, for the worse for America and it is also not for the better for the Russians, too, the two so-called superpowers who have lost their way.
It’s not making it any easier and better for America and some countries which are allied with it, the more they over-react; the more they do things which are considered universally as uncivilized and totally unreasonable.
It’s not that they are in good shape economically, but politically as well. Their credibility is at stake, if they still this is important to them.
The rest of the world is watching.
Now one dreads going anywhere near them in the fortified enclaves with many security personnel and equipments.
I remember going to their open counter at the AIA Building in Jalan Ampang without being frisked or asked to declare my presence and identity or to leave any electronic gadget on the main entrance on the ground floor, and getting to see their staff when I had to apply for my student visa to study at a university in New York City in the late 1970s.
Now, one cannot be sure if one can get a visa, even if one is offered a place to study anywhere in the country, or to travel there as a tourist. Even then, one can still be barred from entering the country after landing at the airport after flying for more than 24 hours and spending a bit on the return tickets and other personal expenses.
The reverse has happened when one fears going to America but not to the former Communist countries.
It is a wise decision to find faults with 1.5 billion Muslims while protecting the well-being of only six million of another group of people?
America has its arithmetic wrong. It needs to calculate its future better and figure out what’s good for them and for everybody else in the world so we can return to the time of John F Kennedy again when Americans are free to roam even the remotest villages in the countries in the Third World.
Now they can’t even sit pretty and speak loudly in fancy cafes outside of America.
And we only have Barack Hussein Obama, which is good enough – a Black-White reincarnation of him who seems to be quite aware of America’s own follies and foibles to take his country back to the type of civilization that we know of and want to care for and admit that terrorism can be caused by countries that claim to be the true champions and defenders of democracy more than those who do not.
The future is bleak for those who had caused untold damage to democracy and world peace; they are safe for now. They can be condemned in the World Court of Public Opinion, New World Literature and New World Cinema with America and the west being turned upside down so they can get to see a better view of the whole world which they had all taken for granted for so long.
Terrorism was introduced to the Muslim World or to some Muslims, and the world at large by countries which claim to be the champions and defenders of democracy, so that they can create the cycle of confusion for which they can think they can benefit from.
It was never in the thinking and action of the Muslims whose countries have been destroyed, pillaged and plundered by the invaders from the west for centuries with many of them killed and maimed.
I may be a filmmaker by training, but my trek to 33 countries around the world over the last few decades, to attend film festivals, seminars and forums and to search for interesting stories for my books and screenplays, had allowed me to see more things that the ordinary Americans could not especially if they try to read the minds of the Muslims and putting them into two groups, Muslims whom they consider to be moderates and extremists.
What’s wrong in being an extremist, if one is extremely kind; and what good in being a moderate if one is moderately evil?
I’m afraid the Americans and English, who use such terms, do not understand the English language well. They do it in their haste to brand those who are innocent while trying to promote themselves as the New Saviors of the Old World that they had lost altogether.
So no wonder they are lost in their own thoughts and actions which have caused untold miseries to the Muslims who are now their favorite punching bag, after the Soviet Communists had been tamed – courtesy of some Muslim and Afghan warriors.
These groups are really not mentioned in the Holy Quran. So don’t blame Islam for the work of a small group of individuals who claim to profess the Islamic faith. Blame it on the biases and prejudices of those who are bent on blaming Islam. This is what is it is all about.
It is therefore, something that was invented by the less fertile minds of some Orientalists or indecent intellectuals for pure expedience; mostly to reflect their personal biases, prejudices and even abhorrence that the Muslim World does not wish to compete with the West; for the Muslims have our own different sets of goals to achieve.
Most Americans or westerners won’t know who Muslims are anymore these days from the way they look and from their names. There are more and more Muslims who also have English and other ‘strange’ sounding names, mine included and doing things that their parents could never dream of.
American world heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali, made most Americans familiar with the name of Muhammad which is perhaps the most common of all Muslim names, like George for the English when it should have been Jesus, but it is not.
And of course, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Benazir Bhutto and a host of other contemporary characters whose personas were created by the western media, too, have contributed towards the greater awareness of who and what is a Muslim in their own special and unique way – also thanks to the cynics.
Worse, they were all created by America, one way or the other! They had trusted America too much and were played by them later, after what they had tried to do for America was done.
Saddam’s fault was that he trusted America too much, and thought he could get away with some ‘petty crimes’ he thought he commit with the full blessings of America. How wrong was he, for having fallen in the trap laid by America which was not known to be grateful to its allies for having done their job for them to fight the Soviet Communists in Afghanistan where their soldiers could not dare to march into on their own?
Yes, we all know that the American aim to fight terrorism and their terrorists, which is good. Nobody can fight over that. But who are the good people of the world and who are the bad?
This is something that we have not yet decided yet. And the Muslims will never acknowledge that they are the ones who are the bad, considering that they had not caused untold miseries on any country or had destroyed it.
Terrorism in the world is not a recent activity. In modern history, it could be said to have started in the Thirteenth Century, if not earlier, when many European countries started to send out their naval fleet to wrest control of foreign countries in Asia and Africa which had long had their own civilizations and systems of government and were living at peace with each other, also in their quest to ‘discover’ the world to see if it was indeed flat.
It is just too bad that universities in the Muslim World do not have courses on the history of world terrorism and Western colonization. They definitely cannot expect those in the West to have them.
Western colonialism came into being and forced the world to be better engaged with each other. Unfortunately, this exercise brought more confusion, enmity than ever before, of which we can still feel its effect till today.
The reverse tide started to happen when the Americans started to seek independence from Britain which they finally got in 1776.
Yet they still failed to realize that there are some people in the world, including those in the Middle East have been trying to do it till now, without hope for a just solution.
Unfortunately, their enemies, too, want to do the same – to fight terrorism and their terrorists. The sufferings that their ancestors and even parents could be easily be forgotten despite their lands that had been forcibly taken from them.
Melaka (or Malacca as the British colonialists called it) was under the colonization and domination of the major European and English, including for a short period, the Japanese, for 400 years.
Despite that we still managed to keep our senses and forced them to leave. They have left just some semblance of their former influences which are being kept mostly in the concrete buildings that they had built to keep their power at bay and staff comfortable.
The local Malays were not their enemies, but time. They could not sustain their greed for long and soon enough the felt guilty. God had a way of punishing them until they became nauseous of their own behavior and attitude.
The world is now conveniently divided into distinct parts, the Muslim World and the West.
The Americans and the West have condemned Muslims and Islam for their own failures and shortcomings. They had wrongly assumed that the Muslims and Islam were incompatible with development and modernity and charged that they were envious with the way of life in the West.
The opposite seems to be the truth, since many people in the West were ‘envious’ that many Muslims had chosen to live simply even in caves without the use of any modernity. They were happy and contented, while their counterparts who had everything were not contented even with all the things that they had.
And we are supposed to be other's terrorists. No one can claim to be in full control over the definition of who and what is a terrorist, however, much one can be in the control of the media.
Does America and all Americans, therefore, hate such ‘extremists’ and their own brand of ‘extremism’? I doubt it.
The Muslim World always hopes that the American leaders, especially, and it’s public to be generous in their portrayal and description of the Muslims.
It is all about the war of the media and the Muslims and Islam getting caught along the way.
It is not only a media war. It is also not a psychological war or a war over a word. It is real as well as an imaginary war.
American leaders think they have correctly pinpointed the true malaise of the world system which is to identify the terrorists, and in doing so found a face and a religion.
How smart are their media gate-keepers and think-tankers and other policy and decision-makers and other experts for bringing out such issues, which in the past were not there before.
Otherwise, legendary Hollywood actor of the silent era, Rudolf Valentino would not have been hailed as a ‘romantic hero’ mostly for portraying Arab sheiks.
And not surprisingly, no one in America has ever brought this matter up, as thought they want this interesting and unusual aspect in its popular culture be totally forgotten, that the Arabs were profiled by Hollywood and entertainment media as such and not as ‘terrorists’.
Maybe we all should return to the age of the silent era of the cinema in Hollywood where silence spoke volumes and American lead actors are Arab sheiks again…
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