‘FIGHTING TERRORISM’ WITH TERRORISM, AND BECOMING STATE TERRORISTS THEMSELVES AND CREATING NEW WAR CRIMINALS FOR NOTHING. – PART II.
…USING WRONG WEAPONS AND METHODS TO FIGHT TERRORISM
AND EXPOSING THEIR OWN STUPIDITY AND RUTHLESSNESS. – PART II.
By Mansor Puteh.
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 America
too much and were played by them later, after what they had tried to do for America
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 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
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
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
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
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