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Letters
West’s terrorist campaigns
This is in response to Col. Riaz Jafri’s letter that appeared in the Frontier Post of July 9 2005. Such apologetic letters by the likes of the author and others have started to emerge as was expected.
The media in general has desensitized the public to the plight of Muslims by streaming televised impressions of what is termed “Islamic terrorism”. It is their intention to demonize an ideology to muster support for the pseudo “war on terror” in which countless innocent Muslim civilians have lost their lives as a result of the West’s terrorist campaigns.
The Muslim fatalities now run well into tens of thousands and are only cursorily reported by the media and no outrage in that regard pours from the public from anywhere in the world. However, in response to the retaliatory attacks by the victims of US and UK’s oppression, the media starts beaming pictures around the world of the West’s victimization at the hands of the so-called “terrorists”.
It is the West who have ravaged the lands of the Muslims and slaughtered thousands in cold blood. It is they who have plundered the natural resources of Muslim lands by installing puppet regimes that are subservient to their evil interests.
It was the US who aided Saddam militarily while he was involved in massacre of the Kurds. These and other culpable facts are preserved in scholarship and one only needs to visit a decent library to ascertain them and get a clear perspective. Now, all of a sudden, the West has worn some angelic attire and is leading the crusade against the so-called “evil” which they have installed around the world in the first place. It is rather naïve to expect that the people who are wronged in the most terrible of ways will sit quietly and endure the humiliation at the hands of the West in their own countries. Indeed these dreadful attacks were inevitable and were predicted by leading organizations that assess global security.
This in no way condones the horrendous events that transpired in the UK but the intention here is only to put matters in perspective especially for the so-called Muslims who have been brain washed by the western propagandist media and are now oblivious to their own plight.
Unfortunately, in response to the “you are with us or against us” doctrine and belligerent policies of the US and the UK in Muslim lands, such retaliatory attacks will only escalate.
Farrukh frkhnm@yahoo.com
I wonder if he wrote that while wearing his jihadi garb?