Tayeb
30-09-2005, 20:24
Assalamu-alaikum and greetings:
I found this is very interesting article and very well written I must say. A must read!
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Isreal Fights Islam to Last American
Mohamed Khodr | Freelance Writer
Prejudice and demonization has been the "white man's burden" and justification for colonialism and enslavement of "colored" man throughout history. It began with the Greeks and Romans, followed by the hostility toward Jews, then Islam, until the miraculous irony of the post-Holocaust era where the newly found partnership of the "Judeo-Christian" world became the defenders of freedom against the "evil empire" of Communism and the establishment of the Western Zionist colony of Israel. That was followed by the newly created "evil du jour - Islam" in 1990 after Communism's fall in order to serve and maintain the military-industrial-media complex of America's elite.
It is no coincidence that Bernard Lewis, America's Islamophobic spokesperson, wrote his article "Roots of Muslim Rage" in 1990 immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union (Sept., Atlantic Monthly). Samuel Huntington, Jewish American, followed in 1993 with his infamous "The Clash of Civilizations" (Foreign Affairs), although Huntington obviously took the title from Basil Matthews' 1926 book "Young Islam on Trek: A Study in the Clash of Civilizations." Matthews, a missionary, saw a massive opportunity for Christian conversion among Muslims after the Ottoman Empire's collapse. He wrote: "They [Muslims] have discovered that the possessors of such power - the rulers over nine tenths of the habitable earth and six out of every seven Muslims on the surface - are the races of Western Christendom."
European Christian literature is replete with derogatory and insulting characterizations of Islam and it's Prophet (pbuh). Their argument runs like this: Christianity, founded by God himself, could not tolerate or accept faiths espoused by mere mortals. Thus, superimposed on the "white man's burden" of civilizing the world, Christianity brought a religious zeal to save the world and exterminate the obstinate "infidels." Neither the faiths preceding it, such as Judaism, nor a faith following it denying Christ's divinity is acceptable to the white Western mind. It was Christianity, not Islam, which invented the trigger phrases of: Infidel - Holy War - Fundamentalism. And it was Israel that first introduced terrorism in the form of car bombing and airplane hijacking into the Middle East.
America is a capitalistic society that responds to money and power regardless of politics. Israel has the financial and political power to wield its influence via the Congress and the Media. Both are money dependent. Recently, it was reported that thousands of Saudi Arabian princes, alone, have between $500 billion and one trillion dollars in American banks and government bonds. That's just one family. Imagine if the Arab and Muslim world would adopt a two-pronged strategy: one politico-financial, the other cultural.
Imagine if Muslim money and resources were wielded as political power via American banks and financial institutions, stocks in major companies including advertising firms, stocks in media corporations even beginning with local markets, stocks in Hollywood production companies, supporting and strengthening Arab and Muslim political action committees with a presence in every state to lobby for Arab/Muslim causes, establishing Islamic institutes and centers in universities, scholarships for Arab/Muslim students in Communication/Media/Film studies, hiring or developing professional public relations firms on behalf of Islam and the Muslim victims in Palestine, India, Kashmir, Chechnya, Afghanistan, China, Burma, Philippines and so on. The Business of America is Business, yet Arabs act as if that's none of their Business until they are forced to meet and whine about the "injustice" to Arabs and Muslims and how great Islam was instead of how great Islam is and will always be.
Secondly, the need to develop a strategy to reach the American people at the grassroots media and cultural level. Americans are not Islam's enemy. They are a kind, generous, open-minded people who seek to live in peace and are thirsty to for others to reach out to them and inform them of their world and culture. Currently, even American Muslims are silent, intimidated, fearful and ignorant regarding political activism. Education and training for them is needed urgently. Today, Muslim schools and mosques serve Muslims, but not Islam.
For their part, the 56 Muslim nations need to develop a unified organization for the sole purpose of informing Americans and Europeans on the truth of Islam via media, film, and cultural events in museums, colleges, and film. There is not one single entity in the U.S. that performs this function with any professionalism and effectiveness. A coordinated effort, even state-by-state, that brings Muslims together with pride, joy, and trust among themselves will alter the landscape of the West. Americans and Europeans are converting to Islam despite Muslims, not because of them.
A short-term strategy of pressuring the U.S. that its interests are in jeopardy in the Muslim world will bring the peace process back on track. America has been looking to invest its interests and energy policies beyond the Middle East such as in the Caspian Sea, so the timeframe to influence American policy is short. If Americans can learn to love the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese, and accept Russians and Chinese as strategic friends, surely Muslim lands can do the same given that the only wedge between Muslims and the Christian West is Israel.
I found this is very interesting article and very well written I must say. A must read!
----------------
Isreal Fights Islam to Last American
Mohamed Khodr | Freelance Writer
Prejudice and demonization has been the "white man's burden" and justification for colonialism and enslavement of "colored" man throughout history. It began with the Greeks and Romans, followed by the hostility toward Jews, then Islam, until the miraculous irony of the post-Holocaust era where the newly found partnership of the "Judeo-Christian" world became the defenders of freedom against the "evil empire" of Communism and the establishment of the Western Zionist colony of Israel. That was followed by the newly created "evil du jour - Islam" in 1990 after Communism's fall in order to serve and maintain the military-industrial-media complex of America's elite.
It is no coincidence that Bernard Lewis, America's Islamophobic spokesperson, wrote his article "Roots of Muslim Rage" in 1990 immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union (Sept., Atlantic Monthly). Samuel Huntington, Jewish American, followed in 1993 with his infamous "The Clash of Civilizations" (Foreign Affairs), although Huntington obviously took the title from Basil Matthews' 1926 book "Young Islam on Trek: A Study in the Clash of Civilizations." Matthews, a missionary, saw a massive opportunity for Christian conversion among Muslims after the Ottoman Empire's collapse. He wrote: "They [Muslims] have discovered that the possessors of such power - the rulers over nine tenths of the habitable earth and six out of every seven Muslims on the surface - are the races of Western Christendom."
European Christian literature is replete with derogatory and insulting characterizations of Islam and it's Prophet (pbuh). Their argument runs like this: Christianity, founded by God himself, could not tolerate or accept faiths espoused by mere mortals. Thus, superimposed on the "white man's burden" of civilizing the world, Christianity brought a religious zeal to save the world and exterminate the obstinate "infidels." Neither the faiths preceding it, such as Judaism, nor a faith following it denying Christ's divinity is acceptable to the white Western mind. It was Christianity, not Islam, which invented the trigger phrases of: Infidel - Holy War - Fundamentalism. And it was Israel that first introduced terrorism in the form of car bombing and airplane hijacking into the Middle East.
America is a capitalistic society that responds to money and power regardless of politics. Israel has the financial and political power to wield its influence via the Congress and the Media. Both are money dependent. Recently, it was reported that thousands of Saudi Arabian princes, alone, have between $500 billion and one trillion dollars in American banks and government bonds. That's just one family. Imagine if the Arab and Muslim world would adopt a two-pronged strategy: one politico-financial, the other cultural.
Imagine if Muslim money and resources were wielded as political power via American banks and financial institutions, stocks in major companies including advertising firms, stocks in media corporations even beginning with local markets, stocks in Hollywood production companies, supporting and strengthening Arab and Muslim political action committees with a presence in every state to lobby for Arab/Muslim causes, establishing Islamic institutes and centers in universities, scholarships for Arab/Muslim students in Communication/Media/Film studies, hiring or developing professional public relations firms on behalf of Islam and the Muslim victims in Palestine, India, Kashmir, Chechnya, Afghanistan, China, Burma, Philippines and so on. The Business of America is Business, yet Arabs act as if that's none of their Business until they are forced to meet and whine about the "injustice" to Arabs and Muslims and how great Islam was instead of how great Islam is and will always be.
Secondly, the need to develop a strategy to reach the American people at the grassroots media and cultural level. Americans are not Islam's enemy. They are a kind, generous, open-minded people who seek to live in peace and are thirsty to for others to reach out to them and inform them of their world and culture. Currently, even American Muslims are silent, intimidated, fearful and ignorant regarding political activism. Education and training for them is needed urgently. Today, Muslim schools and mosques serve Muslims, but not Islam.
For their part, the 56 Muslim nations need to develop a unified organization for the sole purpose of informing Americans and Europeans on the truth of Islam via media, film, and cultural events in museums, colleges, and film. There is not one single entity in the U.S. that performs this function with any professionalism and effectiveness. A coordinated effort, even state-by-state, that brings Muslims together with pride, joy, and trust among themselves will alter the landscape of the West. Americans and Europeans are converting to Islam despite Muslims, not because of them.
A short-term strategy of pressuring the U.S. that its interests are in jeopardy in the Muslim world will bring the peace process back on track. America has been looking to invest its interests and energy policies beyond the Middle East such as in the Caspian Sea, so the timeframe to influence American policy is short. If Americans can learn to love the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese, and accept Russians and Chinese as strategic friends, surely Muslim lands can do the same given that the only wedge between Muslims and the Christian West is Israel.