British/arab occupied Iran's New Export - Suicide Bombers
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Iran's New Export - Suicide Bombers
August 26, 2005
Jewish Journal
Nooredin Abedian
Behind the horrible scenes left by four explosions in London on July 7,
loomed a more fearsome reality: The perpetrators, most of them very
young, had voluntarily turned themselves into living bombs. Europe
experienced its first suicide bombings. More horrible yet, was that not
even the closest ones around the culprits had realized the disaster
coming. The world was shocked to see that youngsters in a western
democracy could be turned into suicide bombers with so much ease, without
anybody noticing.
People are looking for the roots. In London, the government’s liberal
approach to Londonistan, eastern London’s safe haven for fundamentalist
activists, where hard-line preachers used to openly instigate violence
among the Muslim youth, is put under question. France’s interior minister
said he was astonished by the suicide bombers’ youth. He criticized the
British for their liberal approach in dealing with fundamentalists.
But in going lean on fundamentalism, the British are not alone. Together
with their French critics, and the Germans, they are pursuing a far more
liberal approach with a country known as the first state sponsor of
terrorism — Iran. They are busy negotiating with Iran on a range of
issues — mainly its nuclear program, human rights and security, with
luxurious trade relations on the agenda as well.
Recently, news reports from Iran affirmed that a military garrison has
been opened in Iran to recruit and train volunteers for “martyrdom-
seeking operations.” Its commander, Jaafari, a senior officer in the
elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, told a hard-line weekly close
to Iran’s ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the
new “Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison” would recruit individuals willing to
carry out suicide operations against Western targets.
“One of our garrison’s aims is to spot martyrdom-seeking individuals in
society and then recruit and organize them, so that, God willing, at the
right moment when the commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces
[Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] gives the order, they would be able to enter the
scene and carry out their missions,” Jaafari told the Parto-Sokhan
weekly.
Jaafari’s remarks were widely reported by Iran’s state-run media. The
brigade claims that 30,000 young Iranians have thus far registered for
getting a chance to take part in such operations, and more than 20,000
are currently being trained.
It might be true that none of Jaafari’s recruits have found their way to
London or other European capitals. Besides, all of them are Shiite
Muslims, and not of the Salafist brand of Islam thought to be responsible
for the bombings. But that is the least important point. The London
bombings have shown that recruits are abundant locally; they just need to
be inspired.
Those Muslim teenage kamikazes in London or elsewhere, like others of
their age, have their idols. Theirs is not necessarily Michael Jackson or
Lance Armstrong. Shows, like one orchestrated in Tehran, depict a new
world of heavenly death where martyrs are welcomed like glorious heroes,
much like those in Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” carried to heaven by
heavenly female warriors. If you were 18 years old, and fond of holy
jihad against the infidels, you would have found enormous inspiration by
thinking that thousands of people somewhere in the world watch you with
admiration, sharing your sinister zest and waiting for your ultimate
heroic act. It is only of secondary importance if they are Shiite and you
are not.
Don’t forget that Khamenei’s official title is the leader of the world’s
Muslims, and not Shiites. That title holds even in Lebanon, where Shiite
Hezbollah fighters put up parades of would-be suicide bombers with
explosive-filled belts around their torsos under his huge portraits. All
fundamentalists share a common hatred toward the West, toward modernism
and toward democracy. They all say they want to annihilate Israel. This
is a devastating ideology claiming the leadership of 1.2 billion Muslims
the world over.
With the world facing such a serious threat, responsible international
behavior is expected from all countries. Those not abiding by the general
rules should be boycotted, isolated and brought to their senses. Firm
positions from other countries are imperative for making them abide.
When Europeans openly meet and talk with leaders of a country boasting
about an army of would-be suicide bombers on their state television,
little can be done to send a message of firmness to homegrown imams and
fundamentalists in Europe. More important, it would be interpreted as a
sort of recognition for a devastating ideology, with its message of death
and blind terror.
Nooredin Abedian taught in Iranian higher-education institutions before
settling in France as a political refugee in 1981. He writes for a
variety of publications on Iranian politics and issues concerning human
rights.
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