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Anti-Arab Racism v/s Arab Nationalism
Author:USCFL Research Group
Date:April 2003
From Osama Bin Laden's terrorism to the
Palestinian struggle, there is a fundamental theme underlying the behavior
of the Arab masses: the unity of the Arab people. No matter what evil acts
Arab dictators carry out, the Arab masses never speak out against them. No
matter what good deeds the other religions of the world perform, the Arabs
never praise them.
The Arab attitude has remained the same over
the centuries: if something good happens, thank Allah; if something bad
happens, blame the infidels (Europeans, Indians, Americans, Russians,
Chinese...). The cases in which a Muslim is guilty of something evil or a
non-Muslim is the agent of something good - these cases just do not seem to
exist in the Arab vocabulary.
This explains why the Arabs are not condemning
(and, maybe, secretly congratulating) the likes of Osama Bin Laden and
Saddam Hussein and were involved in the September 11 attack. This explains
why the Arabs never protested against the massacres carried out by the
Taliban for ten years, but protested when the American bombing of
Afghanistan killed a few hundred (Muslim) civilians. This explains why the
Arabs never thanked the West for defending the Muslims in Kosovo. This
explains why the Arabs hate America's and Britain's pro-democracy policies
(it is not democracy that matters, it is the preservation of the Arab
leadership).
Not a single Islamic leader has issued a
"fatwa" against Islamic terrorists. Islamic leaders routinely issue fatwas
against writers who dare speak against Islam (often with attached a death
sentence) and even fatwas against Muslim women accused of not wearing the
veil or of wanting to divorce an abusive husband; but not a single fatwa has
been issued against Osama Bin Laden (or, for that matter, Saddam Hussein or
any other crazy Arab dictator), anywhere in the Arab world. In fact, the
only reproach for the terrorists that came from the Islamic leaders was
against suicide: it is amoral for the Muslim terrorist to commit suicide, it
is not amoral for the Muslim terrorist to blow up infidels.
It gets worse. Whether they admit it or not,
the Islamic attitude over the centuries (up till today) has been
expansionistic. Muslims are still trying to expand beyond their borders as
they have been doing since the 7th century. It is ironic that they refer to
Israel as an "occupying force" when the Arabs "are" the occupying force in a
land that stretches from Morocco to Iraq and that they conquered in a series
of bloody wars. (If Israel has to return the occupied territories, one
wonders why the Arabs should not return "their" occupied territories, i.e.
all the land from Morocco to Iraq, including Palestine). The problem is that
too many Arabs see nothing wrong when a Muslim occupies a non-Muslim land
(that's the way it is written it should be) but see a big problem when a
non-Muslim occupies a Muslim land (that goes counter to the Islamic mission
of occupying the entire planet).
Every single day, millions of children and
students in schools around the Islamic world are asked to recite the verses
of the Quran that require every good Muslim to fight for the expansion of
Islam.
This attitude has led many Muslims on the war
path against most of the world. Today, there are Muslims fighting against
America, Israel, India, China, Russia, and making trouble in Indonesia,
Philippines, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, etc. Minorities that are being
persecuted and/or massacred by Arabs include the Sahrawis in Morocco, the
Kurds in Iraq, the Berbers in Algeria, the Dinkas in Sudan. It is an endless
list of conflicts that pit Islam against pretty much all the other
religions/cultures in the world.
When is the last time that an Arab leader went
on TV and said (in Arabic, not in English!) that other people have the same
right to exist as the Arabs? They can't, because it just would not resonate
with the Islamic masses. Every time Bush or Blair tell their people that
they recognize the right to exist of another people, it resonates with the
American and British masses, who value democracy and self-determination. But
those are values that just do not resonate with the Islamic masses.
It is not America or the West that has declared
war on Islam, it is the opposite: Islam has declared war on everybody
else. And it didn't happen today. |
