America's Destructive Behavior: A Question Of Accountability
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Courtesy Of: Aljazeerah.info
By Reem Al-Faisal
Opinion/Editorial
June 27, 2006

We begin with aggression and conquest directed against two sovereign nations and the subsequent death and destruction of life and land.

Belligerence directed at most of the world. Utter contempt and disdain for international laws and accords. The illegal abduction and imprisonment of individuals from every nation subjecting them to torture and humiliation while denying them any legal representation.

This is a short list of the recent actions of the United States of America and most of it has been directed against the Muslim World. Although Venezuela and North Korea have gotten a small share of America's destructive behavior, it has saved the lion's share for the Muslims.

Though most of Europe has stood back and even condemned the attack on Iraq, it has gone along in every other belligerent act directed against the Muslim World, its culture and religion.

From Joining America in its raid on Afghanistan to its attitude toward Sudan, Iran, Palestine, Somalia, the abduction and transportation of Muslims through European lands--Or shall we call it rendition--And the list is endless.

In truth, the Atavistic ferocity that has dominated Western culture since the Age of Enlightenment and which has been the bane of every other nation on earth for the last two centuries hasn't dissipated in the least; it simply took on a more nuanced hue.

Today the West doesn't attack you because it feels it is superior to you and wants to pillage your national resources and wealth; it attacks you because it feels its "democracy" is superior to you and it still wants to pillage your national resources and wealth.

Let's, for example, take the case of Iran. By what right does the West hold this country accountable? It is its legal right to produce enriched uranium.

It takes gall for nations which have thousands of nuclear bombs and which have already used them on civilians to question the right of a nation which hasn't attacked any other nation in a century at least, and has on the contrary been aggressed upon as recently as a decade ago by Iraq which was supported at the time and abetted by those same nations which question the intentions of Iran today.

The West has conquered and destroyed two nations that have never attacked it, sees itself as the guardian of world peace.

Just a small reminder. Taleban, though reprehensible, have never attacked anyone beyond their borders and were willing to hand over Osama Bin Laden; yet the West considers itself the defender of peace?

Those who this very minute are directing or condoning some form of destructive behavior toward innocent civilians either in iraq, Afghanistan or Palestine have the effrontery to question Iran's intentions.

One is in constant amazement when Western nations lecture the so-called Third World or Developing World or call it what you will world, on democracy and human rights and the desire for peace, while right in front of our eyes Palestinians are mowed down like weeds on a beach.

We hear no condemnation from the defenders of peace or see no action from the United Nations. Worse, they stop us from saving our own people from starvation in the name of peace.

The West is playing a dangerous game with the Muslims that will eventually lead to a great conflagration that will leave no one unharmed.

We the Muslims are not like the long-suffering Jews, victims of Western aggression for far longer than us. The Jews have never had nations to support them; they have always been at the mercy of the West and now they have stuffed them into a ghetto and left them to fight and inevitably lose against the only people who have been the succor of the Jews throughout the centuries--The Arabs and Muslims.

There is a sort of macabre Joke played by the West on the Jews in Sikes-Picot, the secret agreement on the allocation of Ottoman Arab territories to spheres of influence of the European powers.

Negotiations between Britain, France, Russia, and later Italy, led to this agreement which initially envisaged an international regime for Palestine since sites sacred to the three world religions are located there.

They massacred them for centuries and then threw them into the ultimate ghetto, "Israel," to spend the rest of their existence fending off the indigenous inhabitants of the land they stole.

The Muslims will not be silent for long; in fact they have never been silent. Simply, their resistance will become more vocal and if need be, more violent as in Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan.

The death of Al-Zarqawi will free the resistance of Iraq from the stain that he was, and will leave Iraqis free to continue the Job of liberating their country from American occupation.

Muslims will remember every action carried out by the West against them in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Somalia, Iran, Sudan and the list is endless. They will one day demand answers from the West and accountability.

We will not simply be assimilated as the Jews were and forget where the responsibility for the destruction that has befallen us lies.

Though our betrayal of ourselves carries a great responsibility for the terrible state we are in today, it does not absolve the West from blame.

As for the statement by a certain American official about the suicide of three detainees at Guantanamo Bay as "A Good PR Move," it should be held apart as an emblem from all other egregious acts committed by Western powers against us.

This statement should hang on the wall of every Muslim house to remind us of the barbarity we are facing and fighting against, and strengthen our resolve in the defense of our rights as human beings to exist, and protect our civilization from impending doom.

We should start by creating our own world court under the auspices of the OIC that can try and condemn all those nations and individuals who have instigated or committed crimes against the Muslims.

Since its creation, the UN has been nothing but a Western tool which has harmed Muslims more than it has benefited them, and giving our enemies and all who wish to destroy us a legal cover to pillage and kill in Muslim lands at will.

From Palestine to Somalia to Afghanistan and the latest masquerade of boycotting the legally elected government of Hamas by the West and preventing all other nations from helping them, is more proof that we can no longer get our rights from a Western organization disguised as an international body built to protect the rights of all nations.

It is time to liberate Muslim nations from the tyranny of Western institutions like the UN, World Bank, IMF, which have brought nothing but misery and pain to all of us.

If we want our rights to be respected, we have to impose them through our own international institutions and not look for Justice from a source which only works to protect its national interests, and which rarely conforms to our desires and even less to ideals as human rights or Justice.

Since Justice is served only to those who demand it with strength.