Fighting the 'Media-Invented'
Islamic State Scarecrow (Semana, Colombia)
"The North
Americans seem to follow the example of the Mongol hordes, having exchanged only
medieval horse archers for modern jets and guided missiles. So today, under the
guise of the media-invented scarecrow caliphate, or yesterday, al-Qaeda, they have
launched what they call a 'universal war on terror,' which is abstract enough,
but has quite specific targets. … These are all countries rich in oil and gas -
a detail the North American aggressors never mention, but which has been the
backdrop of the so-called war on terror from the beginning. For if the
humanitarian justifications they claim were true, it would be necessary to bomb
half the world, or perhaps the entire world. Starting, of
course, with the United States itself, which is a much greater threat to world
peace than the caricature of a caliphate created by Abu Bakr."
The more they bomb it, the more the terrorist group now
called the Islamic State or the Caliphate grows. Every bomb that falls in territories
it has acquired in northeast Iraq and Syria brings out a hundred more jihadists
- Iraqis, Syrians, Algerians, Libyans, or Muslim fanatics from London or Minnesota.
They come from Finland, and perhaps even Colombia.
At this rate, the United States and its allies will soon
make the Caliphate a fact.
Right now, though, it is not. It is not a state, as they
call it, and even less a caliphate, which would be a serious thing – nothing less
than a political and spiritual government over the entire community of believers,
the Umma.
The "caliphate" of today, with its self-proclaimed, cardboard-cutout
Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Bakr usurping the title of direct
successor to Muhammad, is nothing more than a terrorist group. Extremely
bloodthirsty, yes, and filled with a propagandist ferocity that leads to the filming
of the group's beheadings of Western hostages and posting them online, both to
terrorize and to inspire awe.
Yet this is only a few thousand armed men - 30,000 at most -
who, we are told, control an area inside Iraq and Syria the size of Great
Britain in which eight million people live and which was conquered over the
course of months. This isn't plausible. In ten years, 200 000 United States troops
with tanks and aircraft failed to achieve that - and recall, they also used the
weapon of terror. Remember how their arrival in Baghdad was preceded by the
fright and terror of a carpet-bombing called “Shock and Awe”?
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and religiousfanaticism thatoccasionallyariseout of Islam.The Mahdis - imams that are hidden like magnets in the bowels
of the earth, are in a way similar to the hosts of Abu Bakr,
who in the words of President Obama have waited ten years “underground” to take
action under the right circumstances generated by the Syrian civil war. Such
instances of fanaticism, sometimes murderous, also recur in other monotheist
religions: false messiahs of Judaism and false prophets of Christianity - in
all of its branches.
The "caliphate" is more than anything comparable
to the legendary emirate of the "Old Man of the Mountain" who
appeared in northern Iran in the 11th century at the head of the fanatical Hashashinssect - or hashish smokers, the name
from which we derive the word “assassins.” With their system of terror fueled
by politico-religious assassination, the Hashishins
endured for a century and a half, vanquished only in the mid-13th century by
the Mongol hordes. Incidentally, those "hordes" conquered all of
Asia, from Baghdad to Beijing and from Kiev to Delhi.
The North Americans seem to follow the example of those
hordes, having exchanged only medieval horse archers for modern jets and guided
missiles. So today, under the guise of the media-invented scarecrow caliphate, or
yesterday, al-Qaeda, they launched what they call a “universal war on terror,”
which is abstract enough, but has quite specific targets. They began in
Afghanistan, where they said Osama bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire schooled by
the CIA to fight the Soviets and who later founded the terrorist group
responsible for the 2001 attack on New York’s Twin Towers, was supposedly being
hidden in a cave by the Taliban - fanatical students of Islamic theology. The
war was then extended into Iraq, whose dictator Saddam Hussein they said had “weapons
of mass destruction” - which after the country was destroyed never materialized.
From there they continued to Libya, which they bombarded with the support of
their NATO allies, they said for altruistic and humanitarian reasons, to free
Libyans from the tyranny of Muammar Qaddafi. And now, under the pretext of
containing the spread of the terrible murderous caliphate, they are bombing
Kurdistan and Syria.
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These are all countries rich in oil and gas - a detail the North
American aggressors never mention, but which has been the backdrop of the
so-called war on terror from the beginning. For if the humanitarian justifications
they claim were true, it would be necessary to bomb half the world, or perhaps the
entire world. Starting, of course, with the United States itself, which is a
much greater threat to world peace than the caricature of a caliphate created
by Abu Bakr. The allies of the United States in its
offensive against the caliphate, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, are in turn the
principal under-the-table financiers not only of the caliphate, but of all
Sunni terrorist groups in the Middle East that aspire to annihilate at last,
after twelve centuries, Islam's Shiite minority - which are equally tricky to
deal with.
