They Want to Kill Her Because She’s a Woman – But Where is the Feminist Outrage?

Too many are trying to making something raison d'être out of the motives behind the recent terrorist assassination attempt on PPP Chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan. But there isn’t really anything complicated about this.

They want to kill her, because she’s is a woman. She is a woman and she is a leader. And that is why the Islamic extremists, the militants, want her to die. Sure, the current leadership in Pakistan may want her dead as well. They may also kill her, yet. But this is really about Islam. And that is the reason why they want all such women to die, and terrorism is their means of murder.

The same Islamic extremists will, if and when given the power, will kill all the feminists of this country and of the Western world. Benazi Bhutto is no saint, but she is a voice of woman in a world where women are truly considered second class at best. And yet, in that Islamic world, she still is a powerful woman. And so, with her return to Pakistan at a time an objective of the Islamic Fascists is to take chokehold of Pakistan and their terrorist hands on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons so that they can mass murder and terrorize the entire world. All such women such as Benazir Bhutto, have no place in their holy Islamic state and must die. But where is the feminist outrage?

Because the feminist movement isn’t about democracy for everyone in the world, including for women, and it certainly isn’t about women having a role in the leadership of society and the world.

The recent bombing, two days ago, is of historical and grave consequence at this juncture in regards to the world at crisis fomented by Islamic extremism. It isn’t just about the 132 dead and counting – this moment in history means much more than that. And yet, it really has received little attention in the West. Even on this conservative forum, with a heightened awareness of the Islamic threat from this form of Fascism, one can see that postings on the recent assassination attempt received rather slight attention and response.

But that is really neither here nor there – the silence of the so-called “feminist” leadership in the West in this regard is pitiable. Some would say disappointing, but since it is actually predictable I cannot say “disappointed” would be the word since it is so expected.

Bravely addressing large crowds in the face of the terror she has seen with her own eyes, she has told the terrorists and thugs that the Pakistan Peoples Party will not be intimidated by them, and she asked all moderate leaders both in Pakistan and in the world to join hands to defeat the designs of the extremists and terrorists. She tells the world, “what they want is for you not to exercise your political rights” – she was specifically addressing the masses who support her, and she was specifically addressing the women of Pakistan who are under the thumb of the Islamic militants.

She said, “It was more than the attack . . . it was not an attack on an individual or on me . . . no . . . it was an attack on Democracy. And on the integrity of Pakistan”.

“We are ready to risk our lives for the cause of democracy”. That is what she said.

First, understand what is Pakistan. Pakistan was the world’s “First Modern Islamic State”. It was torn from India. In Pakistan today, the Islamic Fascist movement is strong. Because, though many do not understand this, the roots of modern politicization of Islam, it didn’t start in the Arab world. It started in India. It was a movement that started at the time of the Fall of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey, but it didn’t start in Turkey. As the British fought World War I, and fought the Turks, this movement started among the Islamic extremists in India. They saw the fall of the Ottomans, the fall of the Khalifat (Caliphate) and that empire, and they saw the rise of the West and hated the West. Politics had come to Islam. They wanted the Khalifat to again rise from the ashes, and to conquer the World, and especially the West. The Khalifat movement began. The dream of the New Khalifat. They used terrorism. Of course, at first, they would murder the Hindus. Politicized Islam started in India, among the poor Muslims in India who would read the cheap pamphlets of the Mullahs and Islamic political leaders and Muslim Brotherhoods. And if they could not read, the heard the same from the Mullahs in the Mosque. Kill the Hindus, and then the Buddhists, and then the Christians. And of course, kill the Jews.

Later the National Socialist German Workers Party read some of the same literature. It struck a fancy with them. Some prominent Nazi’s even met with Islamic political leaders in Palistine and elsewhere as the Khalifat movement spread.

Eventually, with the “Great Killings” in Calcutta and elsewhere, the Muslim Brotherhoods got what they wanted. The First Modern Islamic State – Pakistan was born. They thought Pakistan under the green flag of Islam would go forth and conquer – the Khalifat would not be far away.

But it didn’t happen like that. Because not everyone in the new state of Pakistan really wanted a Islamic State – that is, not the Islamic State that the politicized Islamic Mullahs and Fascists conceived of. For some, they just wanted power. For others, they just wanted their own country because they imagined that being Muslim in India, that they would never have the same rights as the Hindus – they feared the propaganda of the Muslim Brotherhood. Decades came and went, but despite many failures, the dream of this Khalifat movement which began in the years prior to the First World War had spread, the propaganda reached out to others, and it went to the Arab states after World War II, and beyond. And the dream is still there. This dream is what we now call “Al Qaeda”, or other such names of the Islamic terrorist organizations. This is Islam mixed with modern politics. It is fascism. It is a dream of utopia. We can see where utopian movements lead us, and bring to the world. It is bound to fail. But it is surely going to bring the death of millions, just as National Socialism did, if not taken down now.

Who is Benazir Bhutto? Well, she is a Pakistani politician who became the first woman leader of a Muslim nation in modern history. And for this, she is a great threat to the Khalifat movement. And yet, in the very nation that was the world’s first Modern Islamic State – she , a woman, served TWO terms as Prime Minister of Pakistand in 1988-90 and in 1993-96. And this outraged the likes of an Osama bin Laden and the others. She belongs in the kitchen, and not on television speaking for a nation that rightfully belongs to the Islamic Mullahs and to no one else.

She is a corrupt person. She is no Saint – yet she is certainly a “feminist” in her own right to even be such a powerful woman at all in a world where she should not even be allowed to drive a car much less drive a nation. She was the daughter of political leader of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was certainly no Saint, either. Leadership in Pakistan has been one fascist government after another – but, there is a difference. Pakistan is not ruled by the Khalifat Movement, not by Al Qaeda, not yet.

But it could be, it might be. It can happen. It certainly can happen in Pakistan. Many believe Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, and protected by Pakistani sympathizers.

The Khalifat Movement sees the Khalifat State as consisting of Turkey (pointing at the belly of Europe), all of what we now call Israel and Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt and Libya. That is called the “crescent”. What we traditionally think of as the “Arab world” is actually largely not even on the map of what will be the initial Khalifat State. Of course, the objective is the entire world, including of course the Arab world, and including the West. Very early on, these Islamists learned how to use terror – they practiced on the Hindus. They practiced their politics and propaganda of hate against the Hindus. By the 1940’s it was the Jews, and soon the Christians and Buddhists.

They are fighting the fight of their lives right now in Iraq. They seem to sense weakness now, and possible victory in Iraq. Their next immediate objectives, which of course they are engaged in right now, is overthrowing the governments of Egypt and Pakistan … with Pakistan they get the bomb. They want to overthrow the government in Turkey. They almost had Afghanistan, and they think they still can if they use enough terrorism. The more terror the better. With Pakistan, they have the bomb.

Of course, they also hate the royal family of Saud. They want to take over Saudi Arabia, so that they control the Holy places there. And of course, they want to take control of the Holy places in Israel. The reasons they want the Holy places, really has less to do with holiness, and more to do with what they are going to do once they get these places. They are going to stage a fake Madhi event. A fake miracle. They have practiced such fakery for a long time. They did as much in India before Pakistan. The end justifies the means. They are planning several high profile fake Madhi events, they imagine these fake miracles will cause all of Islam to rise and join with them to kill the infidels.

We are now watching history right before our eyes. What happens in Pakistan in the next few months and years has enormous consequences in regards to the War on Terror. All of Pakistan is not behind the terrorists. Most, too many, in Pakistan are indeed Islamic fundamentalists. But most are not ready to be ruled by the Khalifat. In fact, most in Pakistan do not want that.

What we saw just a few days ago, is a moment of war – she could have been killed.

In fact, if there are any miracles of late, Madhi or not, that was no small miracle that she is not dead at this very moment.

What happens in Pakistan is very, very important. Politicians in the United States such as Obama have no idea, have shown in their statements, their total ignorance of Pakistan, and the meaning of Pakistan in this War.

They surely do not understand the many battlefronts in this War. They do not understand any of these battlefronts, be it Iraq, be it what happens in Pakistan, or anyplace else.

And that is a very frightening realization . . . that American may make a mistake in their choices in the near future. There is very little room for mistakes of any kind.

I made no mention of Iran. Because, that is the other strange part of this War. In end, we very well may see the Khalifat Movement and the insane Shia’s in Iran start to kill each other . . . again. As was so many times before. The black stone in Mecca. It has something to do with that. Both sides want to get their hands on that black meteorite. The black stone. Another part of the story. Today, it is cracked. It may crack the entire world in the end. As with all utopian movements, we are dealing with insanity. Little room for mistakes. Both manics want the bomb. That, they share in common.

"Decades came and went, but despite many failures, the dream of this Khalifat movement which began in the years prior to the First World War had spread, the propaganda reached out to others, and it went to the Arab states after World War II, and beyond. And the dream is still there."

Sorry, but here is yet another denier of what Islam is.

This 'dream" of an Islamic world began with Mohammad. It is a Pillar of Islam to participate in Jihad fight in Allah's cause until the world is all for Allah or until the last day.

This war began with Mohammad. It has grown furious at times, and cools off until it's barely noticeable at other times throughout history, but it is always there.

The Taliban of Paki-Stan, The Islamic brotherhood, Alquada etc. are just those who are rekindling this Islamic Jihad, "fighting for Allahs cause" as others before them have throughout the centuries.

We in the west have just become stupid and have forgotten history, and just how dangerous Islam can be, and the rivers of blood they like to make flow and splash about in.

This makes much more sense than the woman angle.

Bhutto bombing kicks off war on US plan
By Syed Saleem Shahzad

The first shot has already been fired in the battle that Islamists have vowed to wage against the Washington-inspired and brokered attempt at regime change in Pakistan. It came in the form of twin bomb blasts aimed at Benazir Bhutto, the lynchpin in US machinations, within hours of her arrival in Karachi after years in exile.

The bombs narrowly missed Bhutto but killed up to 150 and injured hundreds of the rapturous supporters who thronged the Karachi streets to greet her. The windshield of her vehicle was shattered and members of her entourage on the roof of the vehicle were injured. A car that was part of her convoy was destroyed.

The attack was hardly a surprise. Militants see Bhutto's return to Pakistani politics as a Western-backed coup against Islamists in Pakistan, akin to the arrival in the Afghan capital, Kabul, of the US-backed Northern Alliance in 2001. Militant leader Baitullah Mehsud had instructed pro-al-Qaeda cells in Karachi to kill her for three major offenses against the Islamists, which he listed as:

- She is the only opposition politician who supported the military attack earlier this year on Islamabad's Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), a hotbed of Islamist radicalism, and she coninues to condemn the Lal Masjid ideologues; - She has stated that she would allow incursions by US forces into Pakistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden; - She has stated that she would allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to question Dr A Q Khan, the former leading nuclear scientist accused of passing Pakistani nuclear technology to anti-Western countries.

The Western powers were meanwhile cementing their plan for the future of Pakistan and the region. On Thursday, the same day as the bomb attack, Britain's Lord Malloch-Brown, a minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, arrived in Pakistan to discuss a future pro-Western government in Islamabad. The day before, the British Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi, Hamish Daniel, called on Sindh Governor Ishratul Ebad to ensure that Bhutto's homecoming was accorded full protocol.

Bhutto's return to Pakistan is part of a complex arrangement brokered by Washington and its allies to ensure that a pro-Western government gains power after parliamentary elections in about three months' time. The plan was put in train earlier this month with the promulgation of a National Reconciliation Ordinance, under strong US pressure, by Pakistan's current leader, General Pervez Musharraf. Under the ordinance, all charges against current and former lawmakers who have been accused of corruption (with Bhutto, a twice former prime minister, prominent among them), were dropped. This paved the way for Musharraf's reelection as president and a political settlement with Bhutto which, after Musharraf's giving up his post as chief of the military, would result in a civilian-based, pro-Western consensus government - or so Washington hopes. (See From Washington to war in Waziristan, ATol, Oct 11, 2007)

This is something Pakistan's Islamists are determined to prevent, and sources say that Thursday's bombing was just the first of more such attacks aimed at Western allies in the cities of Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.

The attack on Bhutto was very well planned and its style was identical to bombings in Iraq. No one has claimed responsibility. The list of suspects is long but Bhutto herself is pointing a finger at Islamists elements within Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence agency.

I walked past the site of blasts on Karsaz Road five minutes before the explosion. The hour of the attack - just before midnight - was carefully chosen. The crowd of Bhutto supporters had dwindled to not more than 20,000 people, compared to the 100,000-200,000 people who attended a welcoming rally in the afternoon. This allowed the attackers to get close to Bhutto (it is not yet known whether this was a suicide bombing).

Security personnel of Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) were tired after a long day and I saw them resting at the roadside. They were slow to react to the initial small bomb, and so were trapped when the second, powerful, bomb detonated a few minutes later. As is common in Iraq, the first small bomb - hardly big enough to injure anybody - attracted curious onlookers who became the victims of the second bomb.

Coincidentally, Bhutto herself was tired at this time and 10 minutes before had left the roof of her truck (where she was protected by a bullet-proof shield) and had retired inside the vehicle. Only a few party leaders were on the roof, and some were injured by the blast.

With friends like this ...
This is the same Benazir Bhutto who only few years ago was banned from lecturing at European institutions because of her links to corruption scandals. But times have changed, and Bhutto once again has won Western favor.

The deal between Bhutto and Musharraf was so abrupt and unexpected that even Bhutto's PPP leaders were unable to defend it, especially as just a few weeks earlier they had been agitating against Musharraf over his suspension of the chief of the judiciary. Government ministers too were take by surprise, and when Asia Times Online asked Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kusuri about the deal, he admitted that it had been made under American pressure.

Although the PPP has released expensive advertising for Bhutto's homecoming, feelings against her are running high in some quarters. Anti-Bhutto media have published a list of her, her husband's, and her children's declared assets: they amount to US$1.5 billion, including all Swiss accounts that are frozen because of corruption charges.

Western governments have long shown an affinity for shady characters in their attempts to organize the globe to their liking, though the strategy has seldom paid off in the long term. Thursday's bombings point to enormous problems ahead if the West is to have its way in Pakistan.

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