IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL
“TERRORISM” – WHY AND WHAT FOR?
[Shamim A Siddiqi, New York]
Unfortunately, “terrorism” has
become the greatest abusive word of the human history. What to say of people,
heads of the states like the USA, UK, Spain, Israel, India, Pakistan, Russia
and many more use it without understanding its meaning and concept. They have
no idea what are they talking. Who are they accusing and what for? If someone
goes to “Bush-Blair & Co.” and asks them to define “terrorism”, I am more
than sure they will cut a sorry figure and speak in utter “inaudible” language
and fumbling in mouth. The entire world is trembling with its far reaching
vibrations; the criterion of friendship has changed altogether”; if you do not
tow “my” lines [George Bush] and follow “my” vague understanding of “terrorism”,
you are against me; and governments are falling in its wake. It has now become
the axis of world polarization – the “axis of evil”- whose epicenter lies in
the “White House”.
In spite of the Bush-Blair’s’
declared “war” against terrorism, it is rampant. From Bali to Madrid
and from Moscow to Iraq, “bomb-blasts” are becoming a
daily routine tragedy. Hundreds of humans have lost their lives and many more
hundreds have suffered brutal injuries around the world. Israel is the greatest
benefactor of this propaganda campaign of the USA and with vengeance, it has
let lose a “daily-war” of state terrorism against the innocent people of
Palestine in “retaliation” against “Intifada” and suicide bombing within its forcefully
“occupied” land. India is
following the footsteps of Israel
in its occupied land of Kashmir
and killing innocent Kashmiris daily in the name of “counter-terrorism” but no
respite is in sight at either of the places or elsewhere in the world. The trend indicates that these “acts” of
terrorism will continue unabated and may “capture” new grounds in “virgin”
lands in near future.
The question arises: why is it
so? Why the greatest power on earth in hegemony with others could not succeed
at all to weed it out? The answer is quite simple but the vested interests do
not want to understand it as it would expose their game of world domination and
give a death-knell to their hegemony of global “exploitation”. The reasons to
perpetuate the bogy of “terrorism” are obviously as follows:
1. The world leadership,
especially of the dominant power is “dishonest”. They no longer can play the
old naked game of imperialism and that of colonialism in twenty first century,
so they want to subjugate others’ lands in the name of “fighting” terrorism,
resorting to “preemptive’ attack on the “axis of evil” that “promotes” it. They
have already occupied Afghanistan,
Iraq, the heart of Muslim
world, Pakistan
and “terrorizing” others to submit to their game plan of subjugating the world
or face their sanction and socio-economic boycott. Terrorism and its
“promotion” around the world has now become their “need”, a “Weapon of Mass Destruction” [WMD] to capture the world,
intimidate the power and countries who
dare to oppose the superpower of the time and resolve to stand by
themselves. What the “idiot” and tyrant Saddam could not do by his presumptive
and fake “WMD”, Bush-Blair-Sharon hegemony is fast acquiring in the name of the
so-called “state-terrorism”. The under-developed and undemocratic countries
around the world are being put at the gallows of terrorism. Libya, Syria,
Iran, Saudi Arabia and South Korea are now in line to be
swallowed by the propaganda stunt of the “epicenter” of terrorism. The rest may
meet the same fate, if they dare to oppose the “self-imposed horror” of
terrorism being unleashed from the Rose Garden of White House. Unfortunately,
there is no body on earth to declare: President Bush, “You are wrong. First
look after the real “culprits” of the tragedy of September 11 who are “definitely”
sitting on the “same” side. Why are you spoiling the peace of the world just for
power, supremacy and controlling of the world oil resources for your supporters
and henchmen? History has already “marked” you as “war-monger” and “enemy” of
world peace.”
2. Terrorism is now a tool
in the hands of the incumbent President Bush for his extraordinary efforts to
capture Whitehouse for the second term. He wants to attain by hook or by crook
what his father could not do. He is calling himself as “war-time president” and
“posing” as the only person who can fight “terrorism” around the world. However,
as the ill lick would have it, terrorism has become his election “need” and he
has geared up the entire state machinery around it. World has no choice except
to see him defeated in the forthcoming Election-2004, otherwise the very peace
of the world would remain shattered for a considerable long time.
3. Denial of human rights,
in fact, is the supreme root cause of resorting to the so-called “terrorism” by
the oppressed, subjugated and exploited people of the world. Human rights are
being denied to the people of Chechnya,
Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq,
Balkan States, Gulf countries and many more parts around the world: right of freedom, self-rule and even necessities
of life. The people of these lands are protesting and campaigning for the
restoration of their fundamental rights but they are duped as “terrorists”. The
occupiers of these lands are constantly denying their rights, crushing these
cries ruthlessly and calling these just and rightful demands as “terrorist”
oriented. Can any thing be more farther than truth? These usurpers and their
collaborators, sitting in Moscow, Delhi, Paris, Tel Aviv, Washington and London
have conspired to call these freedom fighters for human rights as “Islamic
Terrorism” as most of the fighters are the Muslims by faith and name only and
the occupied lands belong to Muslim. What a strange thing it has become: you
fight for your own home and rights, you will be “pronounced” as “terrorist”.
What a strange phenomenon it is: “the untruth has become truthful” [Iqbal]
Do President Bush and his henchmen think that
the world does not understand their game plan? Can he avoid the wrath of his
Creator and Sustainer who is watching him and his game mates sitting close to
their jugular vein? Does he know that the Creator of this cosmos can tolerate
anything but not the game of oppression that he has let lose on His innocent
people around the world in the name of war against terrorism? His so-called
“war” against terrorism, in fact, is the war against the values that America
cherishes. He is waging a war against peace, democracy and human rights that he
was committed to promote and uphold as the President of the USA. It reminds me the editorial comments
of NY Times of November 2000 that “some day some one will say that a wrong
person is sitting at a wrong place [Whitehouse]”. It has come true by all
means.
Shamim A Siddiqi
March 19, 2004
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