[Reader-list] Fwd: [AMUNetwork] UNJUST WAR

[Faizan Ahmed]

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Subject: [AMUNetwork] UNJUST WAR
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 09:07:30 +0300
From: "ahtashamuddin -" <ahtashamuddin at hotmail.com>
To: amunetwork at yahoogroups.com

Dear All

I am becoming increasingly saddened and demoralized every day the so-called
“coalition forces” are approaching near to the total Palestine-style
occupation of Baghdad. It will be another illegal and forceful occupation of
a historical city of Muslims after Jerusalem by the Western civilization.

I am not a fan of a dictator like Saddam but not an admirer of stubborn
Americans and British colonialists at the same time. Though these two
prospective occupiers are making claims of liberating Iraqis from a tyrant,
the ground realities prove them hollow. I am yet to meet an Iraqi in
Toronto, irrespective of his religion, who believes in this American
propaganda, even though some of these Iraqi-Canadians have fled their
country to avoid the brutal rule of Saddam. They prefer the present regime
of Iraq to the Western occupiers in the present situation, as they are
afraid of long-term Palestinian-type occupation of their homeland and
exploitation of their wealth and culture. Recently I was surprised by the
resolve of a female Christian Iraqi-Canadian who wanted to go back to
Baghdad to fight for her homeland to save it from the occupiers. If these
Westernized Iraqis think this way, what about more patriotic and
conservative inland Iraqis? How can Americans expect a warm hug from them?

If Americans care so much about the democracy and freedom of the people of
the Muslim world, why have they not uttered a single word against Oman,
Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Morocco whose monarchs
rule their countries with an iron fist more or less the same way Saddam
does? Why have dictators like Musharraf of Pakistan and Husn-e-Mubarak of
Egypt been the strongest allies of the West? On the contrary, why the
democracies of Iran, Sudan, Malaysia and Indonesia are criticized as being
fundamentalists? The reply is very simple. These Muslim monarchs and
dictators serve American economic and political interests in that region
while the Muslim democracies do not.

America’s claim for a pre-emptive strike is not justifiable too. Iraq has
never been found involved in any nefarious activities endangering the
American lives. Americans have waged a war against Saddam because he is
their critic. What about China, Cuba, Russia, France, Germany, Canada, Iran,
India and Libya who do not go by the American doctrine of domination and
self-interest? What about the 1.5 billion Muslim population of the world who
do not like American attitude towards them, as evident from the American
unflinching support to Israel for its unjust occupation of Palestine? What
about the large section of the Westerners including Americans and Britishers
who are against the war frenzy of the present American administration? Will
the so-called coalition remove the legitimate governments of these countries
and eliminate all these people from the earth too? If one individual group
of psychopaths attacked America, has it got the right to destroy each and
every opponent of theirs, just to take revenge?

Furthermore, I am unable to understand the adamancy and violent behavior of
the British government. No one has harmed their interests ever. Instead,
they had exploited the whole world in the past. Probably it is their past
colonial mentality that is still hounding them.

Now the question arises why are the Americans so interested in Iraq and the
Persian Gulf. The very first most important reason is the oil. Iraq has got
the second largest reserves of oil, after Saudi Arabia, amongst oil
producing and exporting countries (OPEC). Since the oil embargo in 1973 when
the Arabs decided to use oil as a weapon to force the West to give
Palestinians their legitimate rights and free the occupied lands of Jordan,
Syria and Egypt captured by Israel in 1948 and 1968 wars, the United States
was looking for an opportunity to control the oil to keep its prices low and
ensure its uninterrupted supplies to them. The oil embargo not only hiked
the oil prices from US $ 5 to 33 per barrel, but also stopped the supplies
to some countries too. Americans and European scientists have tried to find
an alternative to this fuel since then, but have failed miserably. Petroleum
oil still remains the main energy source to run 90 percent of the world’s
industries mainly located in the USA and Europe. The crisis was subdued by
the assassination of the then Saudi King, Faisal Bin Abdulaziz, the champion
of the Embargo and by the America’s support to the monarchies of these Arab
and Persian OPEC member states in return of their promise to uninterrupted
supply of oil. Americans were successful to some extent and brought the oil
price down from US $ 33 to 18, but could not control them fully as the Arabs
and the Iranians became little smarter and formed OPEC which took
appropriate measures to stop the further slide in prices. Arabs resisted the
presence of US troops on their soil as well.

Unfortunately, Saddam gave them the opportunity by invading Kuwait. The
Americans feared that if Saddam somehow dominated the region, he would use
an oil embargo against them as Faisal did. Therefore, they brought in the
machinery and military power to free Kuwait but left Saddam alive to use him
as an excuse to keep their forces in the Gulf region. As a result, American
bases were established in all the six Gulf oil-producing countries. Though
the Arabs did not want them on their soil, their Kings accepted them to keep
their monarchies in place. Thus, they indirectly occupied six Muslim OPEC
members in 1991. Out of the remaining two, they will get Iraq now, and
probably Iran (a member of the much clichéd phrase, the Axis of Evil) next
year to completely control the Persian Gulf’s oil and remotely control its
prices and supplies.

The second important reason to attack Iraq is perhaps the hidden desire of
the present American regime to control the world by crushing their opponents
by their might to rein supreme in the world. This arrogant behavior of
theirs has already lead the people believe that the Cold War was necessary
to keep a balance in power in order to maintain world peace.

Thirdly, religion seems to play a role as well. Use of words like CRUSADE
and PAKIS in the past by the President of USA casted a doubt in many minds
that he has indifferent attitude towards Muslims. Though most Americans do
not discriminate based on religion, their President, a practicing Christian,
seems to crusade knowingly or is being mislead by the fanatics around him
who consider Islam as the foundation of global terrorism.

Whatever the reasons of the present war may be, thousands of innocent
American and Iraqi lives will be lost. Many children will be maimed and
orphaned, men and women widowed, and many will live with the horror of war
for rest of their lives. May God save humanity and prevail sanity in this
world.

Ahtashamuddin
M.Sc., M.Lib.Sc.
AMU 1968-80
Toronto, Canada






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