New U.S. Lie: “Islamo-Fascism”

Doha, Qatar, September 1, 2006 – “The (Saudi) Kingdom is on its guard against those who throw the accusation of terrorism or fascism at Muslims without considering the glorious history of Islamic civilization that stands against the labels being hurled at Islam today, such as fascism, which itself is, primarily, a Western cultural product."

This was Saudi Arabia’s response to misleading and unwise remarks made by the U.S. President George W. Bush following the announcement by the British authorities of having foiled a “terror plot” to use homemade liquid explosives to bring down several airliners over the Atlantic on the way from Britain to the United States, said an article on Saudi Arabia's Al-Riyadh.

Are we “at war with Islamic fascists”? That’s what President Bush said right after news of the “terror plot” in UK had broke up.

President Bush used the term "Islamo-fascism," which is being used with increasing frequency in the blogosphere and in conservative journals as an all-purpose label for Muslim 'extremists', and the biased U.S. mainstream media attempted to switch around the phrase to read "fascist Islamists."

It’s just another U.S. lie.

Webster defines fascism as “a system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of opposition, private economic enterprise under centralized government control, belligerent nationalism, racism and militarism.”

Fascism originally emerged in Italy as a mass movement that Mussolini rode to power in 1922. But the term is widely used to cover almost any authoritarian movement or bully.

So fascism is merely a political doctrine. Numerous Muslim critics, angered by Bush’s remarks, said that the American President’s term defames their religion.

Since September 11 attacks on the United States, President Bush has been trying in every possible way to blame everything on Islam, both as a religion and as an ideology, rather than a particular sect of Muslims. Same policy had been pursued by the U.S.'s main ally; UK, which while disingenuously toying with expressions such as "religious tolerance," "mutual interest," and "religious co-existence," behaves completely opposite of this, instigating negative sentiments against Islam and the Muslim Community, joining by that the U.S.’s defense by openly opposing Islam as a religion and an ideology, rather than genuinely tackling the problem of extremism.

The West insists on viewing Muslims with “the mindset of a colonizer with guardianship over Arab land,” the editorial added.

The U.S. looks upon the [Arab or Persian] Gulf and Iraq as merely oil fields with rich natural resources, and this explains Bush’s administration’s attention to Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Somalia, and Sudan, for all these are producers of petroleum and other strategic economic commodities.

The West’s view of the Arab and the Muslim world remains, and this is what drives U.S. behavior; what has motivated America and Britain into a headlong rush to the East”.

One can describe the current conflict between the Muslims or the Arabs on one hand and the West on the other as a Colonial War.

It was Britain and France who divided up the Arabs like they were a piece of cheese following World War I and World War II.

The Arab world has been since divided into triangles and squares, states, pseudo-states and regions. However, this division never satisfied the U.S. ambitions.

America prefers being involved in the cheese-cutting herself to redraw the Middle East map as it wishes.

"It seeks a country overlooking the Mediterranean, a second on the Atlantic Ocean, a third on the boundaries of the Red Sea, a fourth state on the waters of the Gulf, and a fifth country, landlocked and desert-like, such that its waters are neither from a sea or river but only shallow salt lakes and winding dry river beds," Al Riyadh   article further stated.  

According to The Lawrence Journal-World, “raising the “Islamo-fascist” cry fosters false hope that terrorism can be halted with one great military strike — a Berlin or Hiroshima.”

The term Islamo-fascism “has political wings and plays to the president’s mantra of good vs. evil. But it obscures the complex nature of the struggle Americans will face over the next decade. It misleads more than it informs.”

Source: Al-Jazeera.com

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