Message to Obama and Brown
Ahura Mazda
How about asking WHY?
By Alan Hart
January 05, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- In their refusal to ask the
question of why, really, Muslims are being radicalized, President Obama and
Prime Minister Brown are no different from their immediate predecessors.
When George �Dubya� Bush and Tony Blair ruled the world and were pressing
ahead with their �war on terrorism�, I used to ask this question: Are they
ignorant of history and don�t know what they are doing and therefore stupid,
or do they and/or some of the powerful vested interests which pull their
strings want a Clash of Civilizations, Judeo-Christian v Islamic?
Obama�s and Brown�s responses to the failed attempt to blow up Northwest
Airlines Flight 253 over Denver on Christmas Day suggest to me that the
question is still valid.
Obama pledged to build on America�s success in �eliminating� terrorist
leaders and �disrupting plots�. Brown pledged to step up security activities
on all fronts including �tracking people and explosives�.
In other words, like the moronic Bush and the deluded Blair, the new bums on
the seats in the Oval Office and Number 10 Downing Street are only prepared
to deal with the consequences of the radicalization of Muslims. The causes
are not to be examined.
If this remains the case, it seems to me that the prospects for averting a
Clash of Civilizations at some point in a foreseeable future, and whether or
not any parties actually want it, will be greatly reduced.
Why, really, are Muslims everywhere being radicalized?
The best short answer to the question of why British Muslims were being
radicalized was set down in a letter written (and subsequently leaked) in
May 2004 by the British Foreign Office�s most senior official, Permanent
Secretary Sir Michael Jay. His letter, a warning to Prime Minister Blair and
his ministers, was addressed to the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Andrew Turnbull.
This letter stated that British foreign policy was a �key driver� behind
recruitment by extremist Muslim groups. It said that a �recurring theme�
among the underlying causes of extremism in the Muslim community was the
�issue of British foreign policy, especially in the context of the Middle
East peace process and Iraq.� It added: �British foreign policy and the
perception of its negative effect on Muslims globally plays a significant
role in creating a feeling of anger and impotence among especially the
younger generation of British Muslims.�
What the Foreign Office was effectively saying to Prime Minister Blair was
roughly the following: �If you want to stop Islamic radicalization, you must
change your foreign policy and, in particular, you must put some distance
between yourself and the Bush administration by ending your support for the
Zionist state of Israel right or wrong.�
Blair subsequently signalled his complete rejection of that advice and his
contempt for it. He did so with his statement that �Muslims have a
completely false sense of grievance against the West.� (That to me was proof
that Blair was as deluded as any Zionist).
In 2004 when Sir Michael Jay wrote his letter, it could have been said that
the substitution of �American� for �British� foreign policy in his text
would have explained why more American Muslims were on their way to being
radicalized.
Since then and from the global Muslim perspective things have got much
worse.
We�ve had American, British and other Western approval of two Israeli
demonstrations of naked state terrorism � Israel�s wars on Lebanon and then
the Gaza Strip. And today we�re witnessing the escalation by Western
occupation forces of the killing of Muslims in Afghanistan and parts of
Pakistan while, at the same time, all the major powers are complicit, by
default if not design, in Israel�s on-going blockade of the Gaza Strip.
American and other Western foreign policy is not, however, the only cause of
the radicalization of Muslims everywhere.
Throughout the Arab and wider Muslim world the ruling regimes, almost
without exception, are loathed by their masses (their streets). With good
reason the regimes are perceived as being corrupt, impotent, repressive and,
effectively, stooges of America-and Zionism.
The Arab and wider Muslim world is truly an explosion of hurt, anger and
humiliation waiting for its time to happen.
Why oh why can�t Western leaders see this?
It seems to me that either they are stupid or they and/or some of those who
pull their strings want it, the explosion, to happen.
If there�s another answer, I�d like to know it.
Alan Hart, author of Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews
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