Duplicity
Anti-terrorism seems to be targeting jihad as individuals and
independent groups rather than as being an organized system with
independent institutions, each standing on its own, and recognized
by their supportive governments as legitimate. In doing so, the West
is chasing a shadow rather than aiming at a tangible target. The key
issue here is the Source; it needs to be halted. It is the root
cause (Hiro, 1988: p 137; Pryce-Jones, 1989: p 277; Aburish, 1995:
pp 115, 137, 145).
Take for instance Nigeria, the Sudan and Algeria and to a lesser
degree the militants in Egypt and Pakistan. You no longer hear of
the Biafran Christians, seldom of the Sudanese Christians and never
of the Algerian Berber Christians. They are all being systematically
terrorized into submission to Islam and the Arabic language. In
Southern Sudan, the central government destroys total villages of
the Christians, cuts off water supplies, poisons their water wells
and denies them access to food. The central government controls the
distribution of food, using food handouts as the stick-and-carrot
policy to follow at the heels of their Muslim masters.
There are over eight million Christian Copts in Egypt and over two
million Christian Assyrians in Iraq and the neighbouring countries
and more in Diaspora. Islamic governments deprive them of their
basic human rights. Over 25 percent of the total population of the
Sudan is Christian and other religions, while 45 per cent of the
people of Nigeria are Christian.
The civilized world through its multinationals and so-called
humanitarian organizations is engrossed in an orderly and coherent
manner, in complicity with their respective governments, in
developing countries that matter to them economically and
strategically. They establish stronger bonds with them in order to
enhance their economy and military relationships at
government-to-government level. They ignore the basic human rights
and needs of the non-Muslim natives. Western nations endear
themselves to Islam, especially to Turkey and Saudi Arabia, at the
expense of the suppressed aborigines. Western democratic countries
have a moral obligation to re-evaluate their relationships with the
Muslim world. The dispossessed natives cry out for recognition and
restoration of their human rights, as the true owners of their
occupied land, such as the Assyrians, the Israelis, the Copts of
Egypt, the Berber of North Africa and other oppressed peoples, yet
the Western Nations continue to feign not to hear. They either
remain mute or dismiss them as overly exaggerated.
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