Posted by Concluded on 17/10/2004, 21:30:58, in reply to "The West’s Dirty War against Islam" The arrests of some 700 Muslims in the UK has only produced fabulous James Bond style Hollywood plots, fed to and deliberately published by the media to reinforce the myth and manufacture fear. The most recent being a young Muslim IT professional who was supposedly trying to “take out” a US navy ship. They have even found a Hollywood style villain in Abu Hamza the perfect Dr. Evil, with tentacles spreading throughout Europe and America. Other Sheikhs have also been identified that fit the Hollywood villain bill. Yet, so far no evidence has been produced of any Al–Qaeda organisation or activity in the UK. Despite all the stories and arrests more non-Muslims have been convicted of terrorism, than Muslims. But the aim was not necessarily to convict, but to create myths and fear, which then can be used to wage more wars and introduce more laws to counter a virtually non-existent “Islamic threat” and to defeat Islam itself. Today’s policies are similar to the cold war days, except multiplied tenfold. Monitoring of Muslims at Universities, bans and closures of Muslim organisations, letters to mosques, surveillance, and witch-hunts. Even, a Home Office booklet sent to every home in the UK warning of the dangers of “Islamist” terrorist strikes. The last time this was done was during the Cold War in 1980 when every home was also sent a booklet about the threat of a nuclear strike by the Soviet Union. Now we are into the realm not of myth but pure fantasy. There is it appears this almighty Islamic enemy equivalent in military might to the Soviet Union (in reality there is not even the equivalent of an IRA military structure). The United Nations too falls in line. An institution whose remit is to deal with matters between national states now regularly passes resolutions against a mythical nation called “International Islamic Terrorism”, that threatens the world, and thus international disputes, civil wars and disputes between indigenous peoples are conveniently glossed over under the label “war on terror”. Central to this new cold war has been the media, and in particular the BBC, which prides itself on being a public service broadcaster of great impartiality and balance but often behaves as little more than a British Propaganda Corporation. Since 911 it has helped to shape the new cold war myth in its numerous debates and reports from security and terrorism “experts”. It has given free and unchallenged coverage to those policymakers, politicians and think tanks of what can only be described as warmongers (Richard Perle, David Frum, Elliot Cohen etc.). It has rarely counterbalanced their views on how to deal with the Islamic world, with those who support an alternative strategy. Or even as a minimum with Muslims who understand this agenda and can articulate another view. It has gone farther and produced a string of documentaries/drama’s about this new threat. Earlier this year there was a series called the “Third World War” exposing an international network of Islamic terrorism which is now seen as the third World War. Then there was a drama about the intelligence services and suicide bombers in Birmingham. The BCC Drama “Dirty War” on Sunday 26 September was pure propaganda. The drama was about a fictional plot to use a dirty bomb in the UK by Muslims. It was designed to create fear. Broadcast at peak time, subtitles appeared on screen to inform viewers that the news had been delayed by 30 minutes because of this programme, something that usually happens when a real event takes place. Then, based on this fictional drama, as if to convince the public the threat was genuine and almost as if the event had happened, after the news there was a special programme, with a studio audience and expert guests to discuss if Britain was prepared for such an attack. The Muslim Council of Britain guest on the panel supported the BBC drama thus showing his total lack of ability to understand the BBC agenda and represent Muslims. We are in the middle the West’s “Dirtiest War“ against Islam. We can expect more media propaganda and spectacular lies. When Joseph Goebbels was appointed Hitlers Minister for Popular Enlightenment and became one of the great propaganda exponents he said: “if you tell people a big lie they are more likely to believe it than if you tell them a little lie”. Today, Western politicians and the media have surpassed the efforts of both Hitler and the Soviet Union in black propaganda. The West’s aim is now to defeat Islam, as they tried to defeat Communism. However the arrogant West is in for a surprise. Despite all their efforts and policies to defeat the Soviet Union, their experts could not even predict the demise of the Soviet Union. It was a Muslim that predicted its demise. The Soviet Union and Communism were defeated in Afghanistan, where the Mujahideen destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the Red Army. The US and its political system, by invading Iraq at the heart of the Muslim world has entered its own graveyard, just like the Soviet Union did in Afghanistan. They can tell as many lies as they wish to their public, just as the Soviet Union did, but ultimately all their lies will be unravelled, including the greatest lie of them all –the myth of US invincibility and the superiority of its values and political order. 15th October 2004
Jahangir Mohammed,
Director of the "Centre for Muslim Affairs"
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