Origin of “Direct Action” used by Leftists comes from Politics of 20th Century Muslim Movements

opinion | 4-16-2004 | brianbaldwin

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Origin of “Direct Action” used by Leftists comes from Politics of 20th Century Muslim Movements

A terminology among the left, the communists, socialists and their fellow travelers such as “Progressives” and “Democrats”, is the use of the term “direct action”. You will often hear this term used by the left, and especially of late. These are the same Leftists who march, arms-locked, “in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle”, communists and socialists gathered at protests which feature the usual suspects of speakers who are given top billing as “progressive” but include those, whom any intelligent person would consider the antithesis of “progressive”, spokespersons and voices of the political wing of radical Islam and such Muslim organizations who, if these same Islamic movements ever took power, one of their first likely acts of power, after burning alive all homosexuals in short order, would be to torture, execute, or confine into concentration camps these same communist, socialist, and Democratic Party “progressives”.

Of course, this reality bleeds the argument, why would these “progressives” march side by side with the political wing of radical Islam considering that radical Islam would murder them, set their bodies on fire, and then drag their scorched bodies through the street as the happy Mohammedans ghoulishly dance in glee to their demise?

And, of course, the answer to this question is, the left hates America, the West in general, George W. Bush, et all, so much, that they will march lockstep with anyone and anything who wants to destroy America, the West, George W. Bush, and with any enemy who would annihilate everything most decent people believe in. Radical Islam wants to blow up America – and so does the Radical Left. They both want to burn the same flags, and that is what they have in common; and while Radical Islam will not openly seek to entertain the Radical Left, the left being accommodating will certainly seek the opportunity to entertain Radical Islam. It is as simple as that.

But, back to the subject of the terminology “direct action”. What is the origin of this term, historically? Is it a standard, traditional, terminology of the left? The answer is no - the answer is that this terminology has it’s roots within the politics of 20th Century Muslim Movements, radical Islam, the politicized branch of fundamental Mohammedism. The left uses the terminology “direct action”, because they are adopting, incorporating, the language of the political wing of Islam into their own leftist vocabulary. Because they are “hanging out” with the terrorists, they are starting to employ their same language.

In England, Muslims are for the most part either Pakistani or Bangladeshi, but include Afghans, Iraqis, Egyptians, and those from North Africa. They are found the Slough, Tower Hamlets, Marble Arch, and in fact all over North England. And, they are found at one gathering of “Anarchists” after another.

Anarchists?

That is correct. The U.K. Anarchists seek them out, and enjoin them in “direct action”, deceptively on the basis of resisting “anti-Muslim racism” – but in fact, the same Islamists who co-op such invitation care the least about “racism”; their concern is the triumph of their terrorist war upon the West and the furtherance of Islamic fundamentalist and the propagation of terrorist sponsoring states across the globe . . . and hopefully blowing up one of the busy “tubes” (London Underground) to boot. And, they do not need to be enjoined into “direct action”, because they were the ones who taught the Left this vocabulary.

In October of 2003, Rutgers University held the “North American Conference on the Palestine Solidarity Movement”. “Solidarity” is a placard word of the left – its use declares that those involved, coordinating, communicating the message, they are communists, socialists, “progressives”. The workshops at the leftist conference included “The Art of Palestine Liberation”, “The Apartheid Wall”, “Political Prisoners in Palestine and the U.S.”, and, of course, “Direct Action and Organizing”. Attending, were operatives of radical Islam, and probably gatekeepers of Islamic terrorists. Endorsers of the “Conference” included the usual suspects, A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, All-African People's Revolutionary Party, Arise for Social Justice, Communist Party USA's Frederick Douglass Club, Communist Party of Argentina, Conscious Roots (San Francisco), Arab American Caucus of the California Democratic Party, Arab American Press Guild, Arab National Congress ("Al-Mu'tamar al-Qawmi al-Arabi"), Green Party, International Socialist Organization USA, Islamic Center of NYU, Korea Truth Commission (as in North Korea), Queer Insurrection (SF Bay Area), Marin Center for Peace and Justice, Mexican American Education Foundation, Muslim Student Association, Not in Our Name, Earth First, UC Berkeley Arab Student Union, Workers World Party, and the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition.

On both days of the “Conference”, Jewish people who lived in the area were assaulted and threatened by participants of the conference.

The words “direct action” were used a lot by participants of the conference.

Let’s look back at these words in historical context.

Let’s go to India, to the 1940s. Actually, “direct action”, a code word of the political wing of Islam in India and Turkey, and which meant “kill the Hindus”, “kill the Jews”, “kill the Christians”, goes back prior to the 1940’s, but let us go to the Great Calcutta Riot (the “great killings”) which followed the Muslim League's DIRECT ACTION DAY which was declared for the day August 16, 1946. The Direct Action Day (so-called “hartal”) was called by the Muslim League (in India) on August 16, 1946 to get rid of “British slavery and contemplated future caste-Hindu domination” (i.e. death to the West, kill the Hindus). The leader of the Muslim League, Mohammed Ali Jinnah (the “founder of Pakistan”) called for the end of routine “constitutional methods” and instead to resort to “direct action” (e.g. kill the Hindus) for the achievement of first Islamic state Pakistan. It was already decided at the Muslim League Council meetings of 27-29 July 1946 in Bombay. To the British, it was presented as a “hartal” (strike) against all (Hindu) businesses, but to the Muslims on the streets it was clear, communicated by the cheaply printed posters, the Muslim “yellow journalists”, the references to the “sword” in such inflammatory pamphlets, that this was a call to start killing the Hindus. The preparations were already made, the petrol bombs, the knives, swords, guns, bats, the preparations for communal carnage, which indeed became one of the most gruesome communal rioting on a sickening level of any modern times. A great portion of Calcutta was on fire. The macabre acts are well documented. Horrific isn’t even the word for it.

Mohammed Ali Jinnah eventually had his Pakistan, cut out from India, Pakistan - “The First Islamic State”.

“Direct Action” was a code word, well know among radical Islam, used in the speeches of Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Hussein Shaheed Suhraverdi. Used today among Islamists to mean, terror, to mean, kill “them”. The roots of politicized Islam goes back to the Khilafat movement of 1905, and years just previous to that, and into 1919-1924. After World War I, the Ottoman Empire was collapsing (which was a Muslim state controlling, during it’s most expansive period of the 17th Century, most of North Africa, large regions of Arabia, controlling Damascus and Baghdad, reaching even to the borders of Italy and controlling large areas of the former USSR) . Ali Brothers, Maulana Muhammad Ali and Maulana Shaukat Ali, the Muslims of South Asia and the Subcontinent in general launched the historic Khilafat Movement to attempt to revive the collapsing Islamic empire (Khilafat, as in Caliphate or Muslim Pontiff/Dictator).

This was not a traditional Islamic movement or group in the religious sense, but added the element of politics into Islam. Islam became politicized. It became powerful in India among Muslims of India who had blamed the decline in the fortunes of Islam as the fault of Western, European powers, who they saw as corrupting their society and conquering Muslim lands. The message of the movement was that western powers were waging a war against Islam across the world to rob Islam of it’s wealth, power and glory, and that the Ottoman Empire which was now collapsing would revive as the Islamic state to bring war and death (jihad) to the West once and for all. The Khilafat movement originated in Medina, then went to Damascus, and then Baghdad. There was a period where it had headquarters in Egypt, then Turkey. The Sultans of Turkey claimed to be the caliphs (Pontiffs, e.g. “Khilafat movement”) of the Muslim world. Muslims in India, a country mostly Hindu and subject to almost 800 years of constant attack from Islamic despots from Afghanistan and autocratic Muslim rule of one sort or another, these Mohammedans in India decided that the Sultan of Turkey would be their “caliph” or sovereign. The Europeans were struggling with each other, mostly against the Germans during World War I, the Allies against the Germans in this case seen as “the West” to the Khilafat movement, and the Germans as potential future “Mohammedans” - and the Turks decided to side with the Germans.

It was from the Turks, via the Turk mass murder of the Armenians, that elements of the German government and military of World War I and just prior first learned about concentration camps which such camps were used by the Turk Muslims against Armenians, Jews and Gypsies and supported in principle by the Khilafat movement, which was also anti-Semitic. Elements of the movement which was still existing during the 1930’s into World War II supported the Nazis. In India, the movement maintained that for any Muslim to accept any English or US mandate or interaction with Palestine, Iraq or Syria was a “disregard to the holy wish of the Holy Prophet” and Tehrik-i-Khilafat, and it’s call to arms was to maintain the “Caliphate” and “holy places of Islam” and the Ottoman Empire revival including conquest of the under-belly of Europe. Elements of this movement became powerful in India, among Muslims there, and provided leadership for the Muslim League and similar groups. The words “direct action”, which often meant bombings, was commonly used.

Today, the same terminology is used by the left. It is no coincidence. This started initially among Anarchists of the left, and they learned it directly from politicized Islam. But before I continue, here is a quote, directive, from the “International Solidarity Movement” (a group linked to Palestinian terrorists and leftists on University campuses) to university students: “students can support the local divestment campaigns at their schools with all of the direct action tactics that have been so successful in the past...if there is not a divestment campaign at your school, start one now”. Divestment of course means, cutting off all monetary and economic support, and business with Israel, so that Israel will not have the economic means to fund any counter-terrorism and become overwhelmed by Arab attack. Direct Action means kill the Jews, in more ways than one.

Here is a quote from the Communist Party of the U.K., June 11, 2003: “It is now a matter of record that the movement against the disastrous war on Iraq came very close to achieving it's objectives and defeating the government . . . direct action taken on the day the war actually began (has) . . . certainly shook new Labour to it's roots. . . a near death experience for the Prime Minister.”

Direct Action was used in September of 1922, in Bengal and Multan, the rioting and attacks upon Hindus. The daughter of the Khilafat Movement was the Hijrat Movement of Jamiyat-al-Ulema-i-Hind and the ideas of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. The published doctrine of it was that , when a country or land has Muslims living there, but the Muslims are not in control, then they should option for Jihad or Hijrat, and such Muslims would sign a fatwa that such should be the case.

After the “progressive Turks” took over what has become modern Turkey, the Khilafat movement had a crisis. But this wasn’t the end of politicized Islam. The history continued, and branched off. Into what is today the Socialist Baath movements in Arabic countries, Islamic terrorist groups in Pakistan, and the Middle East. The basic message is very much the same. Today, the Leftists of the western powers, that is the communists, socialists, and “progressive Democrats”, have joined in “solidarity” with the same politicized Islam. They both share something in common. Death to America. And now, it seems, the left agrees with the old message of Khilafat, of political Islam, which the Germans took on as a standard, and now which the “progressive left” has taken on – Death to the Jews. Direct Action.

[Atlantic Friend]

Plus, it was the very name of the most famous French terrorist group, Action Directe, that got dismantled by police forces in the early 1990s.