Washington Arrogance has Fomented a Muslim Revolution

[thorosius]

Washington Arrogance has Fomented a Muslim Revolution

Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars
December 6, 2008

Is Pakistan responsible for the Mumbai attack in India? No.

Is India’s repression of its Muslim minority responsible? [EDIT]Yes[/EDIT].

Is the United States government responsible? Yes.

The attack on Mumbai required radicalized Muslims. Radicalized Muslims resulted from the US overthrowing the elected government in Iran and imposed the Shah; from the US stationing troops in Saudi Arabia; from the US invading and attempting to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq, bombing weddings, funerals, and children’s soccer games; from the US violating international and US law by torturing its Muslim victims; from the US enlisting Pakistan in its war against the Taliban; from the US violating Pakistan’s sovereignty by conducting military operations on Pakistani territory, killing Pakistani civilians; from the US government supporting a half century of Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their lands, towns and villages; from the assault of American culture on Muslim values; from the US purchasing the government of Egypt to act as its puppet; from US arrogance that America is the supreme arbiter of morality.

As Justice Brandeis said, crime is contagious. Government teaches by example, and America’s example is lawlessness. America’s brutal crimes against the Muslim world have invited every Muslim to become a law unto himself–a revolutionary. It is not terror that Washington confronts but revolution.

By illegal, uncivilized and undiplomatic behavior, the US has stirred Muslim peoples from their long slumber as serfs of Western colonial powers. Some Muslims have had all that they can take, and their fury drives them to rouse a billion of their fellows to throw off the yoke of foreign hegemony.

The arrogant incompetence of American governments brought this conflict to the American people and inflicted it upon the world. By destabilizing Pakistan, the US lost a puppet and created an opportunity for Muslim revolutionaries to exploit. By enraging India against Pakistan, the Mumbai attack has created new problems for Pakistan that will focus that government’s attention away from combating Taliban sanctuaries on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan. If the US picks up the slack, it will have invaded yet another country and become trapped in a larger quagmire.

Having fomented terrorism, the American government now pretends to be the innocent victim, just as Israelis, having brought about terrorism by driving Palestinians from their homes and villages, pretend to be innocent victims.

Today European members of NATO, an outdated organization formed to defend Western Europe against Soviet invasion, are sacrificing the lives of their soldiers fighting the American Empire’s war in Afghanistan. If America continues to have its way, Europeans will soon be dying in Ukraine, Georgia, and Iran.

The American government, which preaches “freedom and democracy” has in the 21st century gone to great extremes to stamp out the US Constitution and the civil liberties that it guarantees. The US government has repudiated the Geneva Conventions and the prohibitions in US statutory law against torture. The US government has set aside habeas corpus, the ancient legal principle guaranteed by the US Constitution that prohibits governments from holding people in prisons without presenting charges. The US government has broken the laws of other nations by kidnapping foreign citizens and transporting them to other lands to be tortured.

These massive crimes have been justified in the name of the “war on terror.” In truth, America’s crimes foment revolution.

It was the US government that created the “war on terror,” which has been used to murder and dispossess millions of Iraqis and Afghans, to imprison US citizens as if they were medieval serfs, and to squander three trillion dollars for the sole purpose of enriching Halliburton and the military-security complex.

Investigative journalist John Pilger has shown that the so-called “moral superiority of the West” is a hoax designed to shield from view the self-seeking West’s crimes against humanity.

Obama promised change from this destructive behavior, but how does change arise when the most arrogant woman on earth is appointed Secretary of State and the rest of the new government is staffed with tried and true Likudniks and servants of the militar-security complex?

The change over which Obama will preside will have no American victories. The change will come from America as a failed state, from the dollar dethroned as reserve currency, from America repudiated by its allies and paid puppets, from massive unemployment for which there is no solution, from hyperinflation that produces anarchy.

The day might arrive when Washington is faced with revolution at home as well as abroad.

 

[metalfalcon]

I agree with you my Friend, they will try to stop the Light of Islam but they will fail and on the contrary Islam is growing In USA and Europe more than any time in the history.

ALLAH Protect us all, Amin

 

[Captain03]

one day islam shall rule the world

 

[Evil Flare]

Muslim Dominated the World for 500 Years

Now Western Peoples

In Future there will be someone else


Everything reached to its Downfall

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

These times are tough for the US...
And like the article says US has lost respect in many of its european and puppet allies. Infact 90% of people of Pakistan the front line ally in war on terror view US as threat to their country.
Weather its the Roman Empire , The Otoman Empire , The Persian Empire , The Mongol Empire or the Great British Empire , All were unmatched and glorious during their times..But All of them Collapsed like autmn leaves.
Its the Law of Mother Nature that any thing that goes up will come down one day...
Famous Poet Of Pakistan Allama Iqbal said in one of his verse

ISLAM KI FITRAT ME ALLAH NE LACHAK DI HE
JITNA HI DABAO GE UTNA HE UBHRAY GA

 

[Tang0]

It is odd, that so many point to US arrogance as the reason for Muslim radicalism, yet the followers of Muhammad in the US have a very dim view of AQ indeed. Report Summary: Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream Comparing US Muslims to European ones is not even worth the trouble in that department.

Of course, I am not denying that the US is a target because of its sometimes offensive culture, and aggressive foreign policy. What I am refuting is that these things had much to do with young Muslims being angry and picking up guns and bombs. I should think that their own failed and repressive governments did that well enough by themselves.

Now an argument perhaps worth entertaining is that the US propped up some of these regimes (Iran, Isreal, Egypt, Saudi Arabia...The list goes on), but could not the same be said of Pakistan's leaders in the past? Both supporting those who would turn to out to be terrorists and ineffective management of the poor and uneducated that they use as recruiting pools? Let the innocent cast the first stone, those who live in glass houses, etc, etc.....