Posted on 01/15/2004 8:07:27 PM PST by USMMA_83
Humiliation on fast forward
ABID ULLAH JAN
Frequency and the number of times a subject appears in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Washington Times are good indicators for anyone to figure out the next victim on the imperial chopping block.
Stories highlighting Musharraf’s importance and exaggerating Pakistan’s nuclear threat, appeared simultaneously with the seeming surrender by Libya, mounting pressure on Iran and peace prospects between India and Pakistan.
These developments simplify the issue even for a layman in the street. The Taliban were not the threat, nor were their actions anywhere near to the level of human rights violations and atrocities committed by Israel (See this piece of evidence: http://www.palestinevideos.com/). Similarly, the whole world now knows that the most lied about Iraqi WMD were not the threat. Even the much trumpeted democracy was not the issue. The real threats in view of the global totalitarians from quite some time are Iran and Pakistan in the short and China in the long run.
Subsequently, Pakistan and Iran are there, right on the chopping block. After two years of unmatched lies, deception and barbarism, the stage is now set to deal with Pakistan, Iran and later on China.
As Eric Margolis nicely exposes, the Libyan surrender was no more than another drama, which the twin liars, Bush and Blair, were working upon since long. Margolis writes that “after eight months of secret negotiations” Qadaffi agreed to surrender “only small amounts of World War I technology mustard gas, a primitive battlefield weapon,” to give the liars a justification for confirming “the wisdom of invading Afghanistan and Iraq.” Libya, in Margolis words, with “a single elevator repairman in the country” had “no biological and nuclear weapons” at all. In this situation the “leaks” of Pakistan’s transfer of nuclear technology to Libya and Iran; US unofficial visits to North Korean nuclear facilities and Vajpayee’s peace overtures are all parts of the same unfolding drama.
It will give Musharraf some solid justifications for surrendering Pakistan’s nuclear weapons into “safe hands.” The hands in which the weapons are most probably already secured. Just a formal ceremony is left to glorify the ultimate surrender.
One minor intermediate step could be surrendering Pakistan nuclear weapons into “joint US-Pakistan” hands, but that is irrelevant in a situation in which Pakistan is set to lose the Kashmiri cause after bleeding Pakistan to death for more than 50 years.
British Foreign Secretary has recently declared that Israel is a “unique case” which deserves stockpiles of nuclear and biological weapons. So would declare the US for India, which already claims its using nuclear weapons as a deterrence against China, not Pakistan. So, it is China’s turn to worry about the US moves in its backyard. Pakistan has hardly anything left to lose. A people and its leaders – who surrendered their faith for secularism, who surrendered principles of justice and fair conduct for personal safety, who assisted the globalist totalitarians in the continued butchery of their fellow Muslims – deserve this treatment. Those who cannot keep their honour cannot keep their weapons. Nature makes them turn on each other to hasten further surrender and disintegration.
If Musharraf is saved like Gorbachov till the long awaited disintegration completes, then Pushtuns in the North West of Pakistan may have autonomy like Kurds in Iraq.
Pushtuns may also join their brethren in Southern Afghanistan so as to be under a more focused eye of the neo-imperialists, who would like to have different set of strategies for people from different backgrounds, such as those in “Sunni triangle,” “Kurdish North,” “Taliban-influenced South” and “Persian-speaking North.” It is just to mention a few terms to be used as a basis for future break-ups and convenient colonisation. Like every other conceivable thing, Musharraf’s surrendering Pakistan’s nuclear weapons is just a matter of time. This humiliation has come to pass. There will soon be no justification for keeping these weapons. Opposition to Musharraf’s policies is already absent in Pakistani government. It is as if every politician has joined Pakistan’s army.
Muslim Ummah is a lost cause, as Qaddafi declared the other day. Israel’s recognition is on cards. The sooner Musharraf surrenders, the better it is for completing the much deserved humiliation for the so-called Muslims. Also the better it is for those who are due to replace them.
Muslims do not require nuclear weapons to be good Muslims or to convert others to Islam. After all, Islam is not American democracy.
As far as defense is concerned, these weapons are not worth defending for defense against anything. Where secularism reigns supreme, where faith is lost, sovereignty curtailed and all principle of justice sacrificed, keeping a bomb or two or even the state established in the name of Islam, doesn’t make any sense at all.
When Muslims become Muslim in the Qur’anic sense, only then would they realise what they need to defend, why and at what cost. That would not happen until we hit the trough in this final phase of Muslim humiliation. If we don’t know how to end this humiliation, let us put it on fast forward as hitting the rock bottom of humiliation seems inevitable for a meaningful resurgence.
Just boxcutters, eh Ahmed?
What seems to be humiliating this individual isn't totalitarianism (he means us, which is the biggest hoot of the essay) or imperialism, but the failure of the Arab world to kill enough people to suit him. That should speak for itself.
Now about this "Qur'anic" business - here we have a fellow who thinks stonings and amputations are peachy keen complaining about human rights abuses in Israel and comparing the Taliban, of all people, to the former, admiringly. It should be clear here what standard this author is applying - it's laudable (in fact, quite in accordance with Shar'ia) to beat people for missing prayers, but an outrageous abuse to build a wall to keep homicidal mass murderers at bay. Clearly we are not dealing with a rational culture here. And our response to this individual and to people who are "humiliated" by the entirely just defeats that thugs, murderers, and despots are taking here is a simple one. It is force. This individual is not amenable to reason, is not responsive to a single set of laws for all, and will not cease inciting murder until the ground under his feet is wet with blood. The discourse he has chosen and the only one that he will recognize as legitimate, is blows. Blows he shall have.
But if we have an Islamic state,......
Those of us who were Born to "Western Values" CANNOT ACCEPT the "Tenets of Islam" unless we Abandon our Values.
"Islam" is INCOMPATIBLE WITH "Western Culture!!"
Until the "Purveyors of 'Islam'" can convince the "West" that "Islam" is a Better Way, "Islam" has NO CHANCE of supplanting Western Culture.
Most of Us "In the West," regard "Islam" as a Dangerous Cult, Capable of Producing "Homicidal Maniacs."
There is NO "Equivalent 'Death Cult'" in Western Culture!! Maybe "Islam" should Consider WHY it is the ONLY "Religion" which Glorifies Death (Suicide)!
Doc
From this hemorrhoid's lips to God's ears.
The Left is on a jihad of their own, the enemy of my enemy...
What speaks for itself is that a nominally "respectable journal of liberal thought" gave this Jan character a pulpit for his insane and thoroughly despicable preachings.
This is not the kind of article a magazine that wants to taken seriously should publish. The Nation should be ashamed of itself. Katrina Van Den Heuvel should join a convent. Or, better yet, break out her burqa and join a mosque.
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