Who
is Next…..?
By:
Syed Soharwardy
Islamic Supreme Council of Canada
The escalation of hostilities between India
and Pakistan
is setting up the stage for the next phase of war against Muslim countries.
After September 11 terrorists attacks in New York and Washington DC when United
States started the war against terrorism, President Bush made it very clear
that the attacks on Afghanistan is just a beginning of a long war. It is
evident that the United
States is targeting Muslim countries only
and using terrorism as an excuse. Although there have been several known
terrorists organizations but USA
is not concerned about them. For example; Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka has the
most sophisticated suicide bombers and horrible record of terrorism. The drug
Mafia of South America carries out more number of terrorist attacks on US
interests than any Middle Eastern group. The separatists in Spain carry out deadly attacks in Spain. The IRA
in UK and Ireland is still a threat for UK. The Red
Armies of Japan and Italy
do have their networks of terrorism. But US government cares less about them.
It is clear that the US
government has a bigger plan than just eliminating Al-Qaeda terrorist network. US government is using Al-Qaeda as a scapegoat
in order to impose the New World order of US government.
The New World order of US
government is an Old World order. This New World order is similar to what European powers had
when they made third world countries as their colonies. For example; when
British occupied India they
did not remove NAWABs, RAJAs
and MAHARAJA's of various states within India. In fact,
British government encouraged and helped these NAWABs,
RAJAs and MAHARAJAs in
their rule. The British government used these NAWABs,
RAJAs and MAHARAJAs in
order to maintain control over India.
The NAWABs, RAJAs and MAHARAJAs were told to keep law and order in their
territory and punish or eliminate any person or group in their territory who
create or may create problem for British rule in India. British rulers used to
control public through these NAWABs, RAJAs and MAHARAJAs. If any
NAWAB, RAJA or MAHARAJA failed to serve the British purpose then he was removed
immediately and a new NAWAB, RAJA or MAHARAJA used to get appointed. This
policy helped the British rulers not to get involved in direct confrontation
with the local people and minimize British casualties.
US
government has taken the same old British approach of divide and rule. The war
in Afghanistan is wrapping
up quickly, US government wants to go to the
next target. The potential next target is Pakistan. But one may say that how
US will go after Pakistan?
Pakistan helped US to
succeed in Afghanistan.
Pakistan was US ally in Afghanistan. However, we must
understand the difference between Pakistan
being an ally of US and US as an ally of Pakistan. When US government decided to attack on Afghanistan after September 11 attacks, Pakistan government had no choice but to be an
ally of USA.
General Musharraf made the best decision under
circumstances. Otherwise, America
would have started its bombing campaign from Pakistan. However, General Musharraf did not change the US targets list. General Musharraf's decision to support USA
during the war in Afghanistan
only "delayed" the attacks on Pakistan.
Under the present circumstance, it will be difficult for USA to justify attacks on Pakistan. On
the other side, Pakistan's
nuclear installations, strong army and strong Muslim population are considered
as threats not only for India
but also for USA.
In order to remove these threats and still remain innocent, US would like to
use India to attack on Pakistan. The
recent drama of Airplane hijacking in India and the suicide bombing
attacks on Indian Parliament are part of a carefully developed plan. It is
absolutely wrong to say that Pakistan
is involved in these incidents. When Pakistan
knows that its enemies are looking for an excuse to attack on Pakistan then why Pakistan will provide that excuse?
Last week, the way President Bush spoke in favour of India and blamed Pakistan
for having terrorists in Pakistan
indicates that the US
will not hesitate to change its policies with a blink of an eye. US have proven
many times in the past that Pakistan
is like a napkin. When USA
needs Pakistan, Pakistan becomes valuable and important friend
but as soon as the mission is accomplished Pakistan becomes a used napkin and
goes into trash.
US campaign will not stop
in Afghanistan or Pakistan. It is
about all Muslim countries. This is a new campaign of colonialism and
imperialism. America
was looking for an opportunity or excuse to start this campaign. September 11
incidents provided that opportunity and excuse.
There has always been a foreign country or an ethnic group target of US
policies. US
government had never been at peace completely. For example; the settlements in America started
with the hostilities against Native Indians. Then, war against British rule,
civil war, occupation of Philippine, World War I, World War II, atomic bombing
of Japan, War against Vietnam, War against Korea, long and hateful slavery of
Black people, continued hostile relations with Cuba, cold War against Russia
and East Europeans, Gulf War against Iraq, etc.. After the Cold War era people
thought that the peace might come to America but peace is not in
American nature. Therefore, America
selected a new target of conflict called "Muslims" because US thinks
that the followers of Islamic faith are capable of challenging US desire to
control the world.
Strategically Pakistan
is located at the gate of the Muslim world. Next to Pakistan
is Iran.
As we all know that Iran
is the only Muslim country, which did not surrender to "mighty"
superpower of the world and survived. USA
has a long outstanding hate for Iran's
Islamic government. In order to make a tighter circle
around Iran, US needs
control over Iran's
surrounding country. In Turkey,
US already have bases. Afghanistan
has now become a new US
colony (Once USA will be out of money in Afghanistan things will quickly
change). If USA gets control
over Pakistan then it will
be easy (apparently) for USA
to squeeze Iranian government.
As far Iraq
is concerned, the bombardment and sanctions are being carried out since early
90's. The Iraqi people are used to of these attacks and sanctions. What seems
to have changed is the desire in USA about Saddam Hassain. After the Gulf War, Saddam Hussain
was purposely protected and kept as the ruler of Iraq. The presence of Saddam Hussain gave an excuse to USA
to be stationed in Saudi
Arabia and other neighbouring
countries. Now, US
government is talking about the removal of Saddam Hussain.
This excuse will provide more opportunities to destroy Iraq, just like Afghanistan. After the removal of
Saddam Hussain, British and US
forces can stay in the region by using another excuse called "peace
keeping and humanitarian mission". How long this "peace keeping and
humanitarian mission" will continue? No one knows.
After Iraq, the next
inline is Lebanon.
US can not forget the killings of hundreds of its marines in Beirut. The excuse in Lebanon is Hizbullah. Hizbullah has not only
been allegedly engaged in attacking American interests in the Middle East but Hizbullah is also a big threat to Israel. On the
other side the Syrian connection of Hizbullah is also
a strong excuse for the Americans to infiltrate in Lebanon
and Syria.
The issue of Palestine
has to be kept alive in order to propagate hate for Arabs and Muslims.
Apparently, it is the US
policy to pump modern weaponry into Israel and to keep Palestinians at
bare minimum. This way the Palestinians can not have more than few suicide
bombers to defend themselves. This policy works for the western people. Because
when the westerners see killings and destruction of humanity through sophisticated
F-16, tanks, missiles, smart bombs, cluster bombs, etc. they do not see it as
cruel or unjust. But when a suicide bomber blows up buildings and kills some
people, the westerners see it as terrorist, uncivilized, unsophisticated and
cruel action. Therefore, it looks like that USA would like to maintain the
circumstances in which suicide bombers can be created and the western media
gets an excuse to present Muslims as terrorists.
US would never tolerate to have any Muslim country strong and prosperous
because US do not trust Muslim countries. US have betrayed Muslim countries
many times and Muslims do not see US as an honest and sincere friend. US policy
makers see Islam as a threat. Therefore, it is in the interest of US to see
Muslim countries remain engaged in wars or facing economic depressions. When Malaysia and Indonesia
were on the path of prosperity and both countries were becoming very
industrialized countries, USA
used IMF and World Bank to stop this prosperity. Suddenly, these two strong Muslim
countries went in to economic and political turmoil and still are not able to
recover from it.
The past colonialism and imperialism was imposed upon Muslim countries by
the Europeans and now the people of same mentality are trying to impose modern
style but worse form of colonialism upon Muslims. The US style modern
colonialism has already been implemented in most of the Muslim countries in the
form of dictatorships. These dictators are similar to what British had in India as NAWABs, RAJAs and MAHARAJAs. These NAWABs, RAJAs and MAHARAJAs are
responsible to keep law and order in their states and make sure no one raises
any voices against the monarchy of United States (US president acts
like a king).
Solution
Under these conditions Muslims have three choices.
- Keep the status quo and
whine once in a while, and expect Allah to change the situation. This
option will not help Muslims and the sufferings will continue. Allah does
not help those who do not help themselves.
- Take an extreme position
and try to hurt USA
as some people did on September 11. This position is absolutely against
the teachings of Islamic faith and will hurt Muslims more than USA.
Therefore, this is not the right choice.
- Unite and establish a
European Union style union of Muslim countries. This union of Muslim
countries will lead them to re-establish Khilafat.
We know that for twelve centuries Muslims remained superpower of the world
because of their unity in the form of Khilafat
(union). The establishment of Khilafat (union of
Muslim countries) will not be possible unless Muslim countries increase
their trade within themselves and minimize their dependence on USA. The
economic independence of Muslim countries will make them politically
independent from USA.
Muslim governments need to trust each other and keep their money within
the Union of Muslim Countries. Muslim countries must establish their own
organizations compare to WTO, WHO, UNISEF, UNHCR, etc… United Nations is
no more a neutral organization. It is controlled and operated by USA and European
Union. Why no Muslim country has a permanent seat in Security Council? Why
no Muslim country has a veto power in UN?
As long as someone else will continue deciding destinies of Muslims, Muslims
will never reach to destiny of their choice. It is high time for Muslims to
think and decide their destiny in this world. The first step towards deciding
the destiny is the unity and economic independence of Muslim countries.
May Allah unite us and bless us with the sincere and honest leadership. Ameen