[This article is in fact a chapter (The awakening of the Muslim world) of my work of about 200 pages comprising prologue, Foreword and 13 chapters which I started after Western attack on Iraq in March 2003 and completed in October 2003: Labbaik Allahhumma Labbaik: What is Pakistan’s role when the Muslim world is confronting America and allied West including Israel in a struggle for the ‘Final Solution’? It was partly (prologue, Foreword and 7 chapters) published in Urdu in March 2004 in Pakistan. Without changing the context, for presentation here as an independent article, this chapter has been accordingly updated. – Manzoor Ahmed Manzoor 23-04-2018, Lahore.]
The awakening of the Muslim world, alhamdulillah (the praise is for Allah), in no longer an option. Thank God, many of us in the Muslim world, in the West – the Enlightened West – and the world over are awake. The US-led West – Israel included – have attacked the Muslim world with a purpose. Their declared and real aims do not tally. It is heartening to note that they have not been able to deceive humanity even about their declared aims, what to talk about their real aims! We feel assured that our performance is not that bad. We have caught them almost red-handed!
We on this side of the fence know what exactly they are aiming at. It is not that we know it superficially, the truth is that we do know about the most basic source of their criminal behavior, which led individuals wielding state powers in the West to attack the Muslim world. Let the evildoers not take lightly the significance that not only the Muslim world but also all those who believe in the world civilization have stood against this onslaught. This happened when they did not even support the regimes of the attacked countries. It was rightly understood that the project launched by the US-led West – Israel included – for still more domination over and finally defeating the Muslim world, was anti-civilization. This is an attack on humanity itself and will be resisted. The forces of darkness unleashed by the US-led West have to be stopped in the first place. Once that achieved, their defeat will be a matter of time only.
When the agenda is more domination, defeating the Muslim world and occupation, the “War on Terror” can only be a signboard for cover-up. Their “War on Terror” started against non-existent enemies. The slogan is only for public consumption. Those who are in search of excuses always find one. Those who presently claim to know and fight Al Qaeda have behaved like cheats and liars and are no more trust- worthy. People of the world no more believe what comes out of the American establishment. Their big size and power do not impress anybody of any worth.
No sane person in the world can accept American leadership’s version at its face value. If Americans can assemble so many other falsehoods, how their version of Al Qaeda can be acceptable? Why should not people believe that what they call their 9/11 was the job of the Zionists in particular in America, Israel and the CIA? Going through the published material written by American and Western ideologues, which includes Israelis, one gets convinced without difficulty, rather readily, that the thinking behind their efforts was to prepare ground for invading Muslim countries. The only necessary thing left to be done was to create a pretext that would be generally believable by the people in the Christian world in particular in the United States. And precisely such was the event of their 9/11 because in fact they had already decided to attack Muslim countries – Afghanistan and Iraq to start with.
America attacking America
From Australia through Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Britain and others to America and Canada, in short for all Christian world, it seems to me that at the highest level of governments, individuals were made to believe and convinced that they were in the service of “God” and that the Muslim world needed to be taught a lesson. They seemed to believe that their publics did not understand the urgency of their mission. Hence their manufacture of lies!
I believe, for example, that more Tony Blair thought about these matters, more he must have gone into the hole of religion to convince himself to attack Iraq. If that has been the collective output of the US- led West (Israel included) now in the beginning of the present century, their capacity for mischief is likely to stay for quite some time to come.
After Iraq, apparently, it seems that the questions about motives have been settled. As I have stated above, they are now in the open and so obvious – more domination, final defeat of the Muslims, occupation and reigning supreme. After Bush’s becoming president, therefore, their immediate need was to trigger a process to make American people united for action. What followed was just simple logic of this and only very few Americans should have been knowing directly about their coming 9/11. It is perfectly possible and logical, but not necessarily so, if even President Bush did not know personally that America was about to attack America on September 11, 2001. This is just an indication of how Evil can work; how far it can go to perpetuate and proliferate itself.
Ideologues and Satans
Within ideologues live satans of many varieties, and their most basic and common trait is that they all damage what humanity has built – civilization. Apparently the ideologues seem to be ‘knowledgeable’ people, but this is not true. Within the vast and varied arena of human existence where there are contradictory situations full of complexities, here and there, the ideologues see life in black and white, or make others believe as such. In the vast expanse of life, they choose a narrow path to tread upon, ignoring right and left. They use information, which is not always true; to construct an argument for those who are inclined to accept it. Ideologues try to make others believe that they really believe in things they propagate. Of them who are not hypocrites, are stupid. They normally do not understand the complexities of life. They normally show an obviously profitable path to their audience, but invariably they end up destroying others and eventually themselves. As our cultures, so far, are not able to identify rightness or otherwise of an idea before it is put into action, it is only the struggle in the arena of human society to accept or reject such an idea.
Therefore to fight the ideologues is not to wait until the idea brings destruction to mankind and is proved wrong, but to remain always on war-footings against them and their ideas.
Criminalization of the Leaders
The true nature of the men who are in-charge in America today is now an open secret. Let me underline the fact that it is not true, as has been claimed by some in the United States, that there is nothing inherently objectionable about the US and its role in the world and that only a fundamentally benign system has been taken over by a bunch of extremists – and so there is room for optimism because they can be removed.
No doubt it is correct that a bunch of fundamentalists has taken over, but this has happened only because there is something inherently objectionable also about the US and its role in the world. If there was nothing inherently objectionable about the United States, the shape of the world would not have been what it is today. But it is not possible for a culture, which has been built on ever expanding success story and material gain, at the cost of others as well, to let in creep some fundamental doubt about itself. How then correction from within is possible? In this respect, therefore by resisting America, we confront
the criminals. In this way we help those in the Christian world and especially in America who stand for civilization.
After all this is our world. Bush and his associates do not understand the meaning of civilization. There is need to remove obstacles between peoples and nations that if they want to come closer voluntarily they should be able to do so. And there are no words to express the importance of keeping trust of other peoples. To perpetuate and/or increase gulfs coming from history between peoples and nations is to attack civilization itself.
The US-led West (Israel included) is committing such basic and other anti-civilization acts. Is not the United States presently the most untrustworthy country in the eyes of the peoples of the world, having a doubtful and unpredictable behavior? It is a lesson for the enlightened peoples of the world that becoming captive of wrong leaders is not a curse on the poor peoples of the world only.
This is exactly what has happened in America today. And was not Hitler’s Germany one of the most advanced nations of the world of the time? So in the wake of the present scenario of the world created by the US-led West (Israel included), there is nothing enviable ahead except wickedness and domination. What an irony that those on the wheel today in America are simply men of darkness. They do not know what will happen to the strong and muscular body if there is no powerful computer with right software on the shoulders? ■