The first reason the public are told, we need to go to war, is that this violent group is so barbaric, so utterly wicked, that we as Westerners have a moral duty to stop them — really?
French troops in Algeria showing off the heads of Algerian resistance fighters
If we look at the facts, we can see ISIS is no more barbaric than the dictators, the Western elites have backed, in their 100 year domination of the region.
In relatively recent history in the very region ISIS now threatens, in the 1953 coup of Mordad.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was installed as a monarch by Mi6 and the CIA. He immediately went about systematically killing and torturing anyone who opposed him.
When he was overthrown by a popular revolution, the West pushed Saddam Hussain to start a war with Iran, resulting in a million Muslims being killed.
Finding Saddam surplus to requirements, they tried to overthrow him. Using sanctions they starved and denied medical provisions to the Iraqi people. The UN reported that one and a half million children were malnourished, eventually half a million of those children would die.
As the award winning investigative journalist John Pilger noted:
“ It was like a medieval siege. Almost everything that sustained a modern state was, in the jargon, “blocked” — from chlorine for making the water supply safe to school pencils, parts for X-ray machines, common painkillers and drugs to combat cancer.
The British Government restricted the export of vaccines meant to protect Iraqi children against diphtheria and yellow fever. The Blair government, explained why. “The children’s vaccines”, they said, “were capable of being used in weapons of mass destruction”.
Under a bogus “humanitarian” Oil for Food Programme, $100 was allotted for each Iraqi to live on for a year. This figure had to pay for the entire society’s infrastructure and essential services, such as power and water. The majority of sick people could not even afford treatment. And make no mistake, this was deliberate. Von Sponeck the UN Coordinator said “I have not in the past wanted to use the word genocide, but now it is unavoidable.”
Disgusted, Von Sponeck resigned as UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq. His predecessor, Denis Halliday, an equally distinguished senior UN official, had also resigned.” “I was instructed,” Halliday said, “to implement a policy that satisfies the definition of genocide: a deliberate policy that has effectively killed well over a million individuals, children and adults.”
When that failed to dislodge Saddam, they bombed Iraq back to the stone age. Starting a war that cost another million Muslim lives. We created hell; murdered millions, brutalised the regions inhabitants and then blamed the people that emerged from its ashes for not acting like poets and philosophers.
Across the region we installed brutal dictator, after brutal dictator. None of them more sane or humane than ISIS! And Muslims kept finding that these men were always kept in place through violence.
ISIS then is everything to do with our policies — right down to its brutality. Try as we might to deny it. It is a brutal, violent, reaction to a brutal, violent, order. An order we keep in place. Just another dead Muslim child. Killed by Israel on a beach in Gaza.
The shocking fact is, that only weeks before they decided to bomb ISIS, both America and the UK confirmed their support for Israel and its right to defend itself. Even as it massacred 2,100 Palestinians civilians, 501 of them were children. In the end, over 11,000 men, women and children were wounded and 520,000 refugees were created as they tried to escape the vicious bombing of Gaza’s 1.8 million people, entrapped in an open-air prison with no escape.
ISIS in their wildest dreams could not compete with Israel’s arsenal of death, paid for by the American tax payer.
This moral case for war, was in fact nothing short of propaganda. Mark Curtis highlights in his book, Web of Deceit, how the British MoD had realised that public support for humanitarian wars — could help sell one. The second argument is: If we do not attack them there, they will attack us here.
In fact the reverse is true. All terrorist attacks that have occurred against Western targets, have occurred, according to the terrorists themselves, because of Western foreign policy. Bin laden even laid out his reasons for fighting the West and every single point was linked to foreign policy. You can read more about this in the brilliant book ‘Imperial Hubris’ written by the CIA head of the Bin Laden Unit — Michael Scheuer.
If you really want to understand Muslim terrorism — read this book. He is one of the few non-Muslim white men who truly understand what is going on and has the courage to tell the truth despite attacks against him. “This is about our security, contrary to Bush’s claim that we attack them for hating freedom. If we hated freedom, let him explain to us, why we don’t strike Sweden.” - Bin Laden Oct 2004
So if it is not about stopping terrorism, then why are they waging the a war against ISIS?
It is far less altruistic and far more obvious than the reasons they give to their corporate-media-duped public — but you have to go back into history to understand it.
For 100 years Western Elites have tried to keep the Muslim world from forming into a rising and possible rival power again.
They never forgot the conquest of Spain and their humiliating defeats, at the hands of a united Muslim Empire. So after the first world war, they decided as the British Prime Minister Lloyd George famously said ‘to make Islam innocuous’.
So when they had a chance to recreate the Muslim world, they created a structure in the Middle East that was inherently flawed. With inbuilt tensions amongst the communities and so constantly on the verge of fragmenting.
They manufactured lines in the sand, that cut through ancient communities. Sects were pitched against each other. All this was done to ensure the new nations, would always be internally fragmented and destabilised. The only way to keep them together was through repression. Hence the reason why they needed a dictator or a strongman. These strongmen of course were always dependant on the West to maintain the balance of power.
Both had a vested interest in keeping the prevalent order for any re-awakening would not only depose these leaders but challenge the order itself.
Vitally, the strongmen and the West needed to erase, any sense of a common, Muslim political identity — a pan-Islamic Muslim identity. By changing the peoples understanding of their past historical identity and implanting racial and nationalistic identities in its place — they fragmented the one unifier — Islam. Without a unifying identity — the Muslim world would never have a common struggle again. It could never unite.
The other major benefit of course, was it allowed them to steal its wealth — primarily oil.
This 100 year old game, was finally falling apart. From the Western strategists point of view, Tony Blair's real mistake and the real reason why they hate him, was that he had weakened the very order he was supposed to uphold.
By taking out the strongman in the region — the tensions built over a century — exploded.
Some analysts like Jonathan Cook in his excellent book ‘Israel and the Clash of Civilisations’ argued that Western Elites, along with Israel, did this on purpose. They had been planning to implement an even more radical carve up of the Middle East, a ‘Sykes-Picot’ version 2.
The book explains that they intended to carve up the current Middle Eastern nations into even smaller - weaker states (note the fragmentation of Libya and Iraq, after Western intervention).
But the growing momentum of groups taking to Jihad was threatening this.
The US found themselves facing forces, that were stronger than their puppet states and ones who would not play by the rules — their rules!
Western policy makers had two options.
The first was to stay out of the region and see the plan it had worked on, for over a century, fall apart. Leading to the embryonic rise of a Muslim Empire and the demise of cheap oil — The second was to go to war.
It was simple mathematics, a no brainer — that’s why we are going to war. It is as simple as that. Everything else, dear reader — is propaganda.
So why do I say the most powerful military powers in the World cannot beat a small group of armed zealots in the form of ISIS/L?
Simply this — they are not fighting ISIS/L. They are just another extreme manifestation of the root problem. They are fighting the IDEA that has grown in the minds of millions of Muslims. That idea is simple:
That the current western order is unjust and that peaceful ways of changing that order have been crushed, leaving only one option — to take up arms. Muslims had decided to revolt.
The West had one small window to stop this — the Arab Spring. Instead they undermined it. Leaving no option for many young men but take up armed struggle. It was a catastrophic mistake. It was only a matter of time that armed revolution would spread (war propagandists call this ‘Jihadist ideology’) — because they don’t want the public to understand it.
We now have two options open to us — leave the region alone and allow Muslims to make a destiny that is not dictated by the Western powers — or war
es it is true that if they leave the region, armed groups will rule for a while, some of them backward and barbaric - but overtime these would be replaced by state builders and mature into real civilisations. All revolutions are bloody, but eventually, all new states mature — even the Mongol’s changed over time.
There is, if we are honest — only one way to stop a violent reaction. Change the factors that have caused that reaction.
All talk of ‘jihadists’, ‘terrorists’, ‘extremists’, ‘Islamists’, ‘hate preachers’ or any other politically manufactured ‘unspeak’ is the war propagandists way of making sure you never understand this simple, concrete, insoluble — fact:
They don't hate us for our freedom, they hate us because we deny theirs.
“How is it right for you to occupy our countries and kill our women and children and expect to live in peace and security? … the equation is clear: you are killed as you kill us and are kidnapped as you kidnap us…” Bin Laden Oct 2010
I leave you with a man who says it so much better than I can — Ron Paul
Umar ibn Khatab once said ‘We’re the most humiliated people on earth & Allah gave us honour through Islam’.
The re-writing of the Muslim story started at different periods, but the defeats of the Mughal Empire and the Ottomans paved the way for a wholescale implementation and re-writing of Muslim history.
Muslims were taught a story created by others. Colonialists erased our history, and today most Muslims do not know much about our history at all. Muslims would come to define themselves the way their colonial masters defined them.
The colonial plan was not simply to manufacture new smaller, Muslim nations, but to change history and identity itself.
The idea was to break a single unifying identity — a Muslim identity and replace it with multiple other identities. We would, from that moment on, see ourselves along ethnic, racial, tribal and sectarian lines — and this would be further broken down into manufactured nationalistic ones.
Of course Muslims did not simply give up their identity, or their history. Colonial powers enforced these new identities through the most horrific violence. History bears testament to the millions who were murdered, starved to death and tortured, from one end of the Muslim world to the other to ensure these identities would replace any pan Islamic understanding of ourselves.
Once defeated — Muslims were taught by their colonizer the story that they were inferior, over time we became to subconsciously believe it.
Take for example how little Muslims care for their own peoples lives.
To understand this, let us first compare, the behavior of those who do not view themselves as inferior. Those who are not mentally defeated. Let us take the example of 9-11 and analyse how white Christians reacted after the attack on the twin towers. White Western men and women were killed in that attack. In total 2996 people died.
The reaction was an overwhelming desire for retribution across the Western World. They wanted war. The people who tried to take their liberty were to be hunted down and killed. Trial or no trial. They invaded two countries and over a million people died as a result. To this day their blood lust is not satisfied. Their war of terror is never ending.
Every year American’s remember those who lost their lives. Each one of those lives had a value. Giant monuments with every name of those who died carved on them are erected, and millions visit these monuments and keep their memory alive.
The same can be said of the Jewish people. Who does not know about the Holocaust? You even know the number — 6 million.
The examples are numerous across the World. Now look at the Muslims. Compare our behavior.
The Muslim remembers none of his dead. No monuments for the millions murdered over the centuries.
None of the million Muslims cleansed or murdered from the fall of Spain, the Messianic breaking up of the Ottoman Empire that led to the gassing of the Kurds by the British, the starving to death of millions by Churchill or the murder of countless millions who opposed the manufactured states that they were forced to live in From Palestine to Pakistan, the barbaric ethnic cleansing in the Caucases, atrocity after gruesome atrocity – all forgotten.
From Malaysia to Morrocco, Indonesia to India, country after country, Bosnia, Burma, Chechnya, Syria, Kashmir, Iraq, Arabia, Somalia, Yemen destroyed by invasions or foreign backed dictators.
It is not just history they hide from. It is estimated that Muslims killed in Iraq from sanctions exceed the number slain by all so called weapons of mass destruction throughout history.
More Muslim children died under Western sanctions in Iraq per month than did on September the 11th — and sanctions went on for ten years.
No names carved in metal columns, or fountains made in their honor, no minute’s silence, no commemoration, no flowers, each year, no honouring our dead, no fund for their families, not even their names mentioned in the Mosques on Friday — their corpses buried in mass graves are not worthy of being remembered — even by us.
The lack of reaction by Muslims is shocking — but in it lay the proof of our inferiority complex, our hatred of our own — our colonized minds.
The Muslim had no value for himself, how could he have any value for others like him.
Of course, these are not the only examples of the odd and tragic behavior of the broken Muslim mentality. The more you look the more you find.
Islam should have been the solution. After all, the Prophet PBUH in his last sermon stated that God Alone was One and mankind were all equal under Him. Fracturing any inferiority that others would impose upon Muslims.
However the version of Islam their colonizer allowed them to learn, failed to counter this inferiority. The colonial master killed, imprisoned and murdered anyone who spoke of the Mission of Islam.
All ethical obligations were stripped from Islam, the great Mission of Justice Islam brought to the world — muted. Now Islam became petty rules about dress, appearance. Petty topics like the perfect length of the beard became priority matters.
The colonized version of Islam taught them what foot to enter the toilet with, or what hand to eat with, but never to use those hands and feet to establish God’s Justice on earth. Our colonial Masters erased that from our faith.
They could tell you the names of the arcane Arabic text, but not a single name of the mothers raped and murdered, lying in unmarked graves, or the dead Muslim children from one end of the world to the other. In their colonized minds, this was nothing to do with Islam.
The colonized Muslim was taught to think of his oppression, like a slave thinks of slavery, something that was wrong but normal.
Muslims began to use religion as a drug to distract them from the nightmare — never to wake them up from it.
The Muslim is a broken thing. Inside the fissures are deep, the fear of the whip of the oppressor is never far from their mind. The Islam, he learned, taught him to bow not to God, but to the masters he found himself imitating.
While the apolitical practicing religious Muslims use the pillars of Islam to hide behind, so those who have achieved a modicum of success financially use their job.
This ‘professional’ class is normally the most fearful, for they have more to lose. You will hardly find a single activist against the oppression of our people amongst the western Muslim professional classes. Our most educated and successful minds are also the most slave like.
Money or status made them feel like men again, like humans, like equals.
And those with nothing, little educated and without jobs, they felt like equals often by using violence. Reader, you may find it strange that Muslims are the most aggressive to each other, but often silent against those non Muslim elites who attack them. Dogs dont fight lions, they fight other dogs. A man who has no value for himself, looks with contempt at others like him -for he sees himself in them.
In the past, Islam was the source of justice, it gave them honour, now it was a hollow set of minor rules that brought no help or change to their condition.
And because this colonized Islam could never give them equality, these defeated people looked to find it elsewhere.
Allah taught us all mankind was equal under God, the manifestation of Tawhid was equality. And in the past we fought to bring it to the world. We freed mankind from this tyranny of false Kings and Emperorors. We made a world where Kings and men became equals under Allah.
All that is gone and in its place — nothing but misery and servitude.
You see no man can be equal unless he is willing to demand it from those who deny his equality. When we lost the courage to do this, we hated our subservient condition, eventually we began to hate ourselves.
We ran away from the duty we were ordained to take up — our true mission, to establish Justice on this earth, written in the Quran. Instead of the rituals upholding the great mission, we used them to hide behind, and so we debased ourselves, prostrated through fear to men, not God.
We might deny it, but free men do not let themselves be oppressed. Only a slave does that — and you will hardly find a Muslim in the world who is not oppressed and who has not been trained like a zoo animal to accept his people’s oppression.
Allah taught us to change this world, to overthrow tyranny and through this sacrifice we freed ourselves, learned greatness and honour. It is time we did this again.
“We sent Our Messengers with clear signs and sent down with them the Book and the Measure in order to establish justice among the people…” (Quran 57:25)
Just another dead Muslim child. Killed by Israel on a beach in Gaza.
