The terrorist attack upon
innocent American lives in New York City, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania
on September 11, 2001 has unveiled the fault line between the West and
the Muslim world. The undeniable prejudice in some Western quarters against
Islam is now public and gaining support among powerful circles, while at
the same time the Muslim world has been exposed for its impotence, incompetent
leadership, lack of Islamic honor, dignity, courage, and hypocritical support
for Palestine, Chechnya, Kashmir, and even the Afghan refugees. And how
has Muslim leadership responded to all this?
Muslim leaders blamed each other,
blamed Muslim parties and movements, blamed the ignorance and illiteracy
of their own people, blamed the impotence of the Arab League and Organization
of Islamic Conferences (OIC: better named "Organization of International
Cowards"), demanded the issuance of fatwas (religious rulings) geared more
to protecting their hides than in promoting the true principle of Islam,
and scrambled to call Washington or travel to Washington to pay their allegiance
to Uncle Sam.
They promised U.S. President George
W. Bush full cooperation, they promised to imprison their own people, shut
down Islamic schools and media outlets, and shoot demonstrators if necessary,
anything as long as Bush doesn't bomb them, topple them, expose them, or
better yet, throw them a few million dollars in bought allegiance.
Our Muslim leaders did everything
possible for themselves, their regimes, their cronies, and their media;
everything but have the wisdom and courage to stand up for Islam, the only
thing left for their poor, hungry, unemployed, and illiterate masses.
The Muslim world, all 56 nations,
has been on an autopilot of lies, myths, and ego trips for the sole purpose
of its leaders, damn the masses. How shocking for these leaders to now
suddenly discover that their masses have had to survive on non-Islamic
behavior, while being subjected to extremist views as a solution to their
hopeless lot in the future. As long as the masses were silent, as long
as the media awakens and sleeps with the glory of the leader thanking him
for the oxygen we breathe, as long as the military and police kept people
in line and "quiet" as Sharon says, both the leaders and America were happy.
If anything, Osama bin Laden exposed
the lies of American idealism and values of freedom, self-determination,
pursuit of democracy and justice around the world, and brought to light
a bankrupt foreign policy, and lack of respect for human rights and the
rule of law. Bin Laden exposed the hypocrisy of American values and idealism
that are evoked publicly, but pursued with a vengeance to serve the economic
and political national interest of domestic lobbies, from the Jewish lobby
to the corporate military-industrial complex and the oil lobby.
As long as U.S. capitalism is served,
damn the masses, bomb the masses, jail the masses, burn the masses, starve
the masses. The U.S. speaks of a "war on terrorism" and justice, yet supports
Israel's 34 year terroristic occupation of Palestinian and it's policy
of injustice toward non-Jews.
The U.S. supports corrupt thieving
dictators in the Arab world as long as oil flows freely and cheaply. America
has even abandoned its own Constitution to massively arrest and round up
American Muslims without charge or due process. America closes down Muslim
charities that feed starving children in Palestine, while allowing Jewish
Americans to send over one billion dollars to Israeli settlers and terrorist
groups like "Kach" to promote their terroristic murder and expropriation
of Palestinian land. Thanks to bin Laden, America can no longer sell its
morality, respectability and credibility to the world. U.S. hypocrisy and
double standards are now officially a matter of domestic and international
policy.
Thanks to bin Laden, every Arab and
Muslim leader is living in fear of his life and regime for the decades
of robbing Muslim's lives, lands, wealth, and resources to please himself
and America. American Muslims enjoy more support, freedom of religion,
speech, and movement in America than they would in their own corrupt un-Islamic
lands.
Because of self-interest, Muslim
leaders have accepted the Western propaganda that Islam cannot exist with
freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, tolerance of other faiths,
and economic prosperity. How ironic to find Muslim pseudo-intellectuals
propagating this lie and myth? It's become a universal axiom that the more
educated one becomes, the less religious they become. Religion has become
the "opium" of primitive thought, hindering intellectual, scientific and
economic progress.
The Organization of Islamic Conferences
met Monday December 9, 2001 in Doha, Qatar. Is there a single person on
this earth who honestly expects the OIC to actually come up with concrete,
courageous, and dramatic pro-Islamic decisions that will seek to protect
the oppressed Muslims worldwide in Palestine, Chechnya, Kashmir, Afghanistan,
China, Burma, Philippines, and in their own backyards? No such courage
or decisions will ever be taken as long as Muslim leaders are corrupt in
the eyes of Allah (subhanahu wa Ta'ala) and their people. Their arrogance will lead to
their demise in this world or in the hereafter. They forgot Islam and remembered
their daily bread, mansions, cars, women, and Uncle Sam's pleasure. Only
Islam can save Muslims.
Saddam Hussein is willing for the
third time in 20 years to allow his people and country to be devastated
out of pure egoism and arrogance. Isn't it strange that it's American Jews,
Christians, and Muslims who are coming to the defense of the poor Iraqi
people while the Arab street is silent?
Even the Pro-Israeli American media
is now publicly humiliating Islam, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Libya,
Somalia, Iraq, the Gulf nations, the Arab League, the OIC, and Muslims
worldwide, while the Muslim world in its demoralized state of apathy and
poverty of mind and soul, is powerless to even respond. Not even a penny
to spend in defense of Islam while Emirs, Sheiks, and Presidents buy another
yacht, another mansion, while selling their souls to the devil.
Muslim leaders are silent about other
Muslim atrocities because all are guilty by omission and commission of
their own atrocities. We have seen our enemy and it is us: not only Israel,
Russia, India, and America but us, yes us, who claim the gift of "truth"
and sell it cheap for a lies and a "few dollars more."
Read how three Jewish columnists
and authors are describing the Arab/Muslim street as well as how America
should respond to "Islamic" terrorism. Almost daily in U.S. media, Congress,
and even religious leaders like the Reverend Jerry Falwell and the Reverend
Franklin Graham ("Islam is evil"), Islam, the Holy Qur'an, and our Holy
Prophet, are bashed and blasphemed against, while the Muslim voice is absent
both in America and in the Muslim world.
1. ISRAELINSIDER.COM: "Time to face
Mecca" By Reuven Koret, September 14, 2001:
"....the inspired followers of radical
Islam have had their appetites opened. The West must find effective ways
to deter the Jihadists....Americans, like Israelis, are distinguished among
the nations in their respect for innocent human life. They will not, as
a policy, target civilians, and if civilians are harmed as an unintended
result of a military action, they will be genuinely sorry.
Whether it is publicly announced
or merely communicated through quiet channels, the Jihadists must know
with an absolute certainty that the next outrage against a symbol of the
West will prompt a reciprocal response against a corresponding site of
interest to Islam. Let us pray that the holy shrines of Islam may continue
to serve the peaceful worshippers of Allah.
The West must face Mecca now...
2. WASHINGTON POST: "Victory Changes
Everything..." By Charles Krauthammer, November 30, 2001:
Just weeks ago the Middle East experts
were warning that such violations of Islamic sensibilities would cause
an explosion of anti-Americanism. Where, then, is the vaunted "Arab street,"
the pro-Osama demonstrations, the anti-American riots? Where are the seething
masses rising up against America and its nominal allies from Egypt to Pakistan?
Nowhere to be seen. The street is
silent.
In a prescient lecture Oct. 20, Middle
East Quarterly editor Martin Kramer says: The way to tame the Arab street
is not with appeasement and sweet sensitivity, but with raw power and victory.
It is now a capital offense to harbor
terrorists. Literally. Harbor them and your regime dies.
The elementary truth that seems to
elude the experts again and again - Gulf War, Afghan war, next war - is
that power is its own reward. Victory changes everything, psychology above
all. The psychology in the region is now one of fear and deep respect for
American power. Now is the time to use it to deter, defeat or destroy the
other regimes in the area that are host to radical Islamic terrorism.
Hence Stage Two. No, not Iraq yet.
It surely is the worst terrorist threat, but because it is the worst and
the most difficult, it will require more planning, and more political and
military preparation. Now is the time to go for the low-hanging fruit:
giving the Philippines assistance in crushing their own al Qaeda guerrillas.
Telling the thugs running Sudan, Syria, Libya and Yemen to cease and desist,
to shut down the training camps, to cough up the terrorists -- "or else,"
as the president so delicately puts it
3. WASHINGTON POST: "...And Now to
Iraq", by Richard Cohen. November 30, 2001:
"At the same time that the United
States was waging war on a Muslim nation, the rest of the Muslim world
did not rise up, take to the proverbial street and topple the authoritarian
regimes of our dear friends and - not that it matters any - oil suppliers.
Not a single one has been imperiled by mobs cursing Uncle Sam.
The big surprise - even within the
Bush administration - is Pakistan. Not only did it do a reverse twist off
the highest board in geopolitics - going from being the Taliban's pal and
supporter to Uncle Sam's most dutiful nephew - but it has remained virtually
calm in the wake.
Those weapons - plus the ultimate
inevitability of nuclear ones - are precisely why Hussein must go. He is
too evil to be allowed to menace us with weapons of mass destruction. He
invaded Iran. He invaded Kuwait. He used chemical weapons on Kurdish civilians.
. In due course, Saddam Hussein must get our message: Uncle Sam Wants You."