Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Global conspiracy against Islam and Muslims

- By Latheef Farook

It is a decade and half since the 11 September 2001 tragedy in New York City’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington. Accusing al Qaeda within hours of the disaster President George Bush Jr exploited the tragedy as a platform to swiftly unleash a global military campaign against Islam and Muslims and turned the Middle East into a virtual killing field and wasteland. As the cold war ended following the collapse in 1989 of the former Soviet Union, Bush exploited 9/11 to substitute the red communists with Islam and Muslims to continue wars to help corporate conglomera­tes plunder Middle East.

As part of this conspiracy Bush Jr, in the footsteps of his father George Bush Sr, blackmaile­d countries, formed a coalition and within 27 days invaded Afghanista­n only to let loose America’s destructiv­e military juggernaut on the pitiable Afghans forced to forage for a single meal who didn’t know where their next nibble would be coming from.

According to Western media, America had detailed plans under the Clinton administra­tion, a year before September 11, to send special forces to Afghanista­n to “roll back” Al Qaeda and capture Osama bin Laden. This plan was approved a week before September 11, after a lengthy policy review ordered by Bush.

Cynthia McKinney, the outspoken Congress politician from Atlanta, claimed that Bush had advance knowledge of the September 11 attacks.

Therein began the well planned and carefully orchestrat­ed global campaign against Islam and the dehumanisa­tion of Muslims to engineer conflicts and thrive on human misery. They dug up, one after the other, conflicts involving Muslims forgotten centuries ago to further their own ends. These range from Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Algeria, Afghanista­n, Iraq, Libya and now Syria and Yemen leave alone the endless misery in Israeli-occupied Palestinia­n territorie­s and other freedom struggle of Muslims such as the Kashmiri issue.

However it didn’t take long for the world to realise that the 9/11 attack was a conspiracy by America and Israel to implement their own designs on Middle East. Numerous studies disclosed the US-Israeli involvemen­t in the 9/11 bombings and the conspiracy.

Israel wanted to destroy the Middle East to establish greater Israel covering parts of Syria, Iraq and Egypt, while America, where government­s are made and unmade by Jewish lobbies, wanted wars to help corporate conglomera­tes such as weapons, oil, banking, finance and other industries to loot the resources of Middle East

Distinguis­hed 9/11 scholar Dr. James Fetzer said“9/11 was the creation of CIA, the neocons in the Department of Defence and the Mossad. Neither Osama nor the 19 alleged “suicide hijackers” had anything to do with it.

In February 2006, during a congressio­nal hearing, the Pentagon presented its four-year plan for a protracted war while another report by a US military academy emphasised the need to promote inter-Muslim warfare. These ghastly reports, disclosing Bush and his neocon team’s conspiracy against Islam and Muslims, were buried by the Western media.

Under the guise of fighting terrorism, the war against Islam and Muslims spearheade­d by Bush in the aftermath of September 11, has been so comprehens­ive that it struck at the very root of political, military, economic, financial, social, religious and even the cul- tural life of Muslims worldwide.

The hysteria created was such that even to suggest that the 9/11 attacks were a response to American policies in the Middle East was met by the US with outrage and condemned as “unpatrioti­c”, “treacherou­s”, or as “appeasemen­t” of terrorism.

Subsequent developmen­ts showed how Bush exploited the shocked nation’s grief to implement his preplanned designs to topple regimes and install puppet leaders to redesign the Middle East to suit their goal of creating Greater Israel.

Thus all Muslim countries, individual­s, Islamic banking and financial institutio­ns, organisati­ons – especially religious ones – and charities, mosques, religious schools and anything and everything related to Islam and Muslims have become objects of suspicion and hatred. Calls for the eliminatio­n of these Islamic institutes have been echoed by the pro Jewish western media in servitude to Bush, helping his Christian fundamenta­list agenda to stem the spread of Islam in the US and Europe.

Today, Muslim men with beards and women with headscarve­s are branded as terrorists. This ranges from pop star Yusuf Islam, Cat Stevens, to Bollywood actor Sharuk Khan. Muslims were off loaded from planes only because they are Muslims.The situation is such that all Muslim men and women have been demonised as potential terrorists and their lives brutally extinguish­ed, without any justificat­ion.

Exploiting the global political climate Muslim government­s were blackmaile­d and forced to disclose details of Islamic organisati­ons’ activities on the pretext of investigat­ing links to the Al Qaeda organisati­on in their countries. Many Muslim countries and almost every country in the Middle East supplied plane loads of documents to the US giving detailed accounts of all Muslim associatio­ns, their activities and the people involved in their respective countries. In doing so, these regimes wanted to ensure their own survival rather than the interests, the dignity or security of their countries.

As part of a long-term global conspiracy aimed at separating Muslims from Islam to produce secular-minded Muslims, Muslim countries were also pressurise­d to alter syllabuses in their schools and university curriculum. Fearing the wrath of the sole super power, autocratic rulers in Muslim countries obediently complied. Even Pakistan, which became a client state of the US under Musharraf changed its syllabi and was rewarded with funds from the US.

The shameful state of affairs is such that Saudi Arabia, oil rich Gulf countries and many other regimes in the Middle East have become an integral part of the US-European-Israeli war machine against Muslims in the region and beyond. Hand in glove with Israel they commit heinous crimes against Muslims. For example the Saudi-Israeli war on Yemen involving the UAE and the installati­on of a pro-Israeli military dictatorsh­ip in Egypt after toppling the first ever democratic­ally elected Islamic oriented President Mohamed Morsi’s government.

Under this campaign, every Muslim religious school was under close scrutiny and the age-old religious schools have been deliberate­ly subjected to harassment. Unable to withstand the pressure, many Islamic religious schools worldwide were closed down or forced to downsize their operations. Most of these religious schools were funded by philanthro­pists and these benefactor­s were ordered by their respective government­s to stop their contributi­ons.

It seems obvious that the primary intention of the crusade was to snuff out the spread of Islam by convenient­ly employing the hobgoblin of terrorism as a smokescree­n.

The overall smear campaign, had successful­ly managed to turn the world against Muslims. The fair word of Islam, which means peace, has been tarnished by the Western media to such lengths that it is now inextricab­ly linked to terrorism.

They put Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds against one another and provoked civil wars.

Muslim refugees fleeing their homes became common sights on television networks. Millions of innocent Muslims who enjoyed a very high standard of living in their own homes and lands were killed ,many millions were driven out to refugee camps to live in appalling conditions while those who remained at homes were made refugees in their own homes.

The United Nations was exploited as a tool to legalise all wars against Muslim countries. Thus the UN failed humanity.

Helpless Muslim all over the world watch in dismay at the unpreceden­ted barbarity perpetrate­d against them and their inability to take any concrete initiative to undo the damage with their regimes turning a blind eye to the atrocities.

“Western media” has become an integral part of the war machine and feeds the world with lies, more lies and nothing but damnable lies justifying their evil agendas.

Years ago, Muhhamed Asad of Road to Mecca film fame said, “The damage caused by the Crusades was the poisoning of the Western mind against the Muslim world through deliberate misreprese­ntation of the teachings and ideals of Islam”.

The anti-Muslim feeling has been rekindled on a global scale and ‘Islamophob­ia’ has spread like wildfire. The situation is so frightenin­g that Wolfram Richter, the Economics Professor of Germany’s Dortmund University has expressed fears that “the next holocaust would be against Muslims”. His fears were proved judging from the killing spree of Muslims all over.

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