| by Mahboob A.
Khawaja
“….a transition from "the war on
terrorism" to the outright demonization of Muslims. While underscoring the
freedom of religion, the Obama administration is "beating the drums"
of a broader war against Islam….. the
objective is to instill fear, rouse and harness citizens' unbending support for
the next stage of America's "long war….. A "war of religion" is
unfolding, with a view to justifying a global military crusade.”
(Professor
Michel Chossudovsky, “America's Holy Crusade against the Muslim World”, Global
Research, 8/30/2010).
( December 13,
2012, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) American duplicity and political
intransigence have lost the strategic direction and rational sense of glory and
triumph in honoring its peacemaking commitments to the Arab Middle East. The
new emerging Arab world and its politics is changing fast as the new generation
informed people are taking over the responsibilities and slowly organize
themselves to demonstrate courage, wisdom and new political imagination for a
new value-based and free of foreign influence Arab world. Strangely, in this
progressive struggle for change, freedom and co-existence, America and Israeli
both have lost the opportunities to be partner in the peacemaking process and
in the establishment of an independent State of Palestine to balance the disequilibrium
in which Israel presently exists. It is becoming more obvious that by
challenging the voices of REASON and implying denial of the rights of the
Palestinian people, the embittered America and aggressive Israel could enjoin a
terrible sense of helplessness and isolation and nothing could save them from
the consequences of their own triviality, ignorance and wickedness.
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The collective
courage and coherent political imagination of the new educated Arab generations
have effectively challenged the traditional Arab authoritarianism supported by
the US and West Europeans making them to THINK of the Unthinkable future. The
Western strategic planners kept the fattish and mindless Arab rulers ignorant
of the prevalent facts of modern life. Intellectually fractured and physically
broken solid walls of secretive police “FEAR” built and maintained by the
Imperial Masters expose the truth of Arab - Western world relations. Nothing
other than hypocrisy and deceit were the corner stone of these bilateral
relations over half of a century. The informed Arab masses articulating UNITY
of purpose onward to NEW THINKING and ACTIONS - ANEW FUTURE visible on the
horizon. Discarding the virtual reality, it is happening and well in progress
across the authoritarian Arabian Peninsula. Quite intuitively and
instinctively, people’s inspired revolutions have surpassed the human
imagination to facilitate a different and more promising landscape across the
Arab Middle East.
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World is changing as it should be but not the policy impulse of the US and Israel. Effective leaders and stable nations opt for change when faced with facts not fictions of life and gear toward rational changes as the principle of adaptability to be successful in carving a sustainable future.
When we compare
facts of human affairs, we tend to learn more about the prevalent realities.
Today, North Korea successfully launched a space missile which to American and
its coerced allies is highly suspected of having nuclear arsenal capacity and
objectionable. But none have issued war threats to North Korea. Suppose in the
world of Virtual Reality, if we were to replace Iran with North Korea - place
of location, would America and Israel have reacted in the same manner as they
did against Iran? Iran is not a nuclear
power and according to all scientific data, it does not have the capacity to
produce nuclear weapons but America, Israel and so many other bribed nations
continue to issue violent threats of reprisal against Iran. Why? Simply,
because Iran is a Muslim nation whereas, North Korea is not. Perhaps,
non-religious if communism is assumed just as an ideology, not a religion. In
this self-defeating exercise, no Western news media even mentions that Israel
is nuclear power nation and has close to 200 nuclear arsenals in the warehouse.
Is it a more of a religious warmongering against Iran? Do sadistic leaders
operate the political systems of the globe?
World is changing
as it should be but not the policy impulse of the US and Israel. Effective
leaders and stable nations opt for change when faced with facts not fictions of
life and gear toward rational changes as the principle of adaptability to be
successful in carving a sustainable future. Change and adaptability to the
future-making are rational factors and choices to envisage human rights,
dignity and peaceful co-existence. The tribal cult-based Arab sheikdoms and the
rulers are living in the modern age of ignorance (“Jahlliyia”). They lack
rational understanding of time and history. The oil discovery was a scheme of
enslavement and moral and intellectual deprivation for the traditional Arab
societies most often termed as “fitna” - a wicked proposition. The imported
scheme of “modernity” and oil-pumped prosperity have not changed the Arab time
capsule - being irrelevant, incompetent and floating on its won completely out
of touch with the challenging needs of the 21st century and legitimate
aspirations of the Arab masses for freedom and people’s based system of
governance.
Politics is
self-centered obsession to have power and to influence others for personal
aggrandizement and exploitation. Politicians produce nothing except talking and
listening and shouting matches in the corridors of parliaments and assemblies.
For over centuries, the traditions go on as none seem to have the courage and
commitment to change the theater of absurdity run on taxpayer’s pains and
payments. Discard cynicism and wickedness but be conscious that some
contemporary politicians or monsters of history are often the two sides of the
same picture enriched with perversion and treacherous escape from the facts of
real life. They exhibit individualistic
absolutism and despotic intents to gain irrational favors. Who can argue with
REASON against the pro-Israeli American political institutions - lobbyists,
people and leaders - they are well paid to say things that Israel wanted to
hear and to guarantee the strategic superiority of Israel, no matter what the
world thinks about all of them. Their duplicity in thoughts and actions is not
just plain falsehood and cruelty to the prevalent facts of human life but
challenges to the US official stance in a global theatre. America and Israel
both need a strong moral, intellectual and political challenge to come to terms
with the Arab Middle East. Do the tribal cult based Arab rulers possess the
moral, intellectual and political capacity, vision and courage to challenge the
US and Israel for an equal treatment in global affairs? Could the dummy and
ignorant Arab authoritarian rulers stand up to encounter the Israelis in face
to face dialogue and make logical discourse that the international community
could grasp some hard facts of the Middle Eastern tragedies? Imagine, in September 2010, President Obama
made an international declaration at the UN General Assembly that he hoped to
see a new member State of Palestine sitting in at the UN body by next year. But in 2011 close to the re-election
campaign, he started talking in-between, playing with broken promises and words
on Palestine. The same Obama administration opposed the Palestinian bid to
seeks UN membership as a State in November 2012. There are no solid moral and
political principles on which the nations and leaders take a stand. What is
missing in this ball game and political drama across the global media
screens? One fact outweighs all other
factors of expediency that the Arab nations do not have any educated and
intellectually competent and politically credible leaders to come out in front
at a global stage and REASON the UNREASON. The world pays attention to those
who know how to communicate the ideas and issues logically and effectively.
Arab rulers have wasted time and energies on futile projects negating the
Islamic values and spirit of leadership. What if there were people-run and
open-ended system of political governance and 21st century educated and
proactive and intelligent people of the new generation making the policies and
representing the Arab political governance at a global theatre? Would Obama and Netanyahu dare not to listen
to those powerful voices of REASON?
Arabs people are
ancient, tolerant and enjoy credible history; Americans are new in civilization
and rush to hasty conclusions, only to THINK after the facts. Arabs have a
history of eight hundred years (longest period in any civilization) of glorious
culture and civilization in Al-Andalusia (Spain), not terrorism. European
persecuted the Jews for ages, not the Arabs, and American never cared about it,
well after the 2nd World War until the Jews established their institutionalized
influence and power in politics, mass media and financial domains. People and
nation of the world must listen, learn and understand these facts of history.
Now, it is the time for the Muslim thinkers, strategic planners and other
professional experts to take the initiatives and respond to the call of time
and human conscience and lead the change process and make positive things
happen out of planned ideas and ideals. It is time in history-making to THINK
right and act; otherwise, there are more wars and destruction on the horizon
for the Arab-Muslim world to come. The US needs more hoax of wars to revamp
failing of its financial collapse, defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan, unpayable
$14 trillion borrowed from the future and failed political agenda of wars
against the living humanity.
Imagine, if the
Arab world had public institutions and Islamic system of people-based
governance, there was no scope for the Western oil importing nations and their
military forces to intervene, bomb, destroy and subjugate those already living
under half of a century of authoritarian oppressions. It is the same story in
Syria, Libya, Iraq, Yemen and in other parts of the princely sheikhdoms of Arab
societies - common people are gunned down, their rights and human dignity is
purged, the only voices of reason are coming out of the Western thinking people
and human organizations, not of the Arab ruling elite. All of the Arab
individualistic absolute rulers have institutionalized secretive police
apparatus and Rapid Deployment military units to maintain “fear game” and to
keep the herd under control by force and torture. This was business as usual
for almost sixty years but no Western politicians or institutions spoke against
it, not even the Western pro-democracy proponents claiming to be optimists and
peacemakers. None of the despotic rulers had any imagination or vision to build
the human strength based valued societies and to see Islam as a changing force
of time and progress.
Imagine, what
would the history say about the Arab rulers complacent in America’s led bogus
War on Terrorism - a crusade against Islam and about their leadership role
model for the future generations to come?
Take a moment and have a cool breathe and THINK if you can, of the
on-going planned massacres and killings of the innocent people in Syria,
Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen, political horrors and physical injuries,
intellectual and moral insult to Muslim conscience, and deaths and devastations
that these monsters have caused to the traditional and valued culture of the
Arab people. How should the world view
the Arab people, societies, Islam and their sense of moral values? Does
oil-pumping assumes more value than Islam and its values? Have the traditional
Arabian hub of moral, spiritual and intellectual cultural values been drained
out and replaced by hurriedly affixed fake imagery of the oil prosperity? What
would history speak about the Arabian moral and intellectual losses and
decadent culture? Were there no conscientious and intelligent folks, scholars
and thinkers to THINK of the navigational change and challenge the absurdity of
anti-Islamic authoritarianism? Was there nothing else other than handful of
sadistic rulers, oil pumping and militarization as the culture and economy of
the Arab people? What kind of moral,
intellectual and cultural images are beaming out of the traditionally cultured
and civilized Arab societies to which the global community should take notice
to understand its impulse and values?
There are more
daunting challenges and opportunities ahead for concerned Arab-Muslim scholars
and thinkers to grasp the momentum and try to determine and plan feasible
alternatives and remedies and workable solutions. The role and tasks of the
societal planners and managers - people dealing with change and management of
development is painfully formidable and progressive over certain period of
time. The societal problems are complex and there is no single pill to diagnose
the cancerous sickness and disorder institutionalized by the Arab
authoritarianism. Professor Fouad Ajami (Arab Predicament) said it right: “the
problems of the Arab world are the result of self-inflicted wounds.” If the one
track rulers were open to listening and learning (vital traits of effective
modern leadership), the current catastrophic wars against the Arab people -
firing on demonstrators in streets, funeral processions and worshippers in
Masjids, killings of innocent citizens and destruction of the social
environment and emerging political horrors could have been avoided.
“Change” is the
most important phenomena embracing the political imagination, street talks and
evolving people-oriented culture of THINKING and moving into the future-making
of a new age of governance, discarding power politics of the few foreign hired
agents of influence, often supported by foreign aid, institutionalized corruption and dictated interests of the
Imperial Masters and obsolete Empires. The crises in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq and
continued killings of the civilian populace clearly demonstrate how the Arab
leaders have failed to deal with conflict situations. They appear to be living
in a fools paradise soon to be replaced by their enemies. They cannot
demonstrate any moral or intellectual leadership capacity to extend any sense
of strategic security to their people. Do the oil enriched Arab rulers have any
rational capacity and imagination to tackle any problems of the people’s
concern and priorities?
It is the
future, how to be rebuilt across the oil producing Arab nations. There must a
rational concern and immediate thinking on the part of able and competent
Muslim thinkers to plan for change and future-building - out of deliberate
deaths and destructions in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Tunis, Iraq, Afghanistan
and Pakistan. The losses are too great
in human, social, economic and political terms and consequential impacts will
go on for ages to come as what was destroyed instantly by the blood thirsty
draculian forces, cannot be rebuild overnight. These were the results of decade
old indifferences, incompetent and corrupt system of governance - the net
outgrowth of the Arab authoritarianism and ruthless dictators. The educated and
informed generations of the Arab societies must THINK collectively and
rationally and devise plans in concert with professionals and experts whether
from the US – the Arab world or other societies to a framework of Change,
reformation of the obsolete system of political governance, encourage people of
new ideas to share their viewpoints and seek collaboration from all corners to
rebuild the new institutions, social-economic infrastructures, and a
sustainable promising future of peace and co-existence with all the neighbors.
Dr. Mahboob A.
Khawaja specializes in global security, peace and conflict resolution with keen
interests in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and author
of several publications including the latest: Global Peace and Conflict
Management: Man and Humanity in Search of New Thinking. Lambert Publishing
Germany, May 2012. He is also a regular with Sri Lanka Guardian
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