ON GLOBAL TERRORISM: Global terrorism is an outspark of superpowers' activities.
There are psychologic origins, apart from chronologic ones. But many latent terrorists (almost everyone) would not act beyond resentments, unless pressed too hard; what Mr. Bin Laden had called "desecrative injustice".
Americans and some others are guiltless victims of terrorist acts. It has always fared like that: equip some proxies to terrorize others, and you will almost inevitably be terrorized after the othewrs. Potential friends are always potential enemies, especially in human sociopolitical affairs.
USA improvidently leased weapons to potential enemies in the trend of the Cold War days.
True, state-less murderers and arsonists (now symbolized to the USA and W Europe by the name Bin Laden or al-Qaeda) have to be stopped; just as state-centred figures of murder and destruction such as Hitler, some of the Khans of Mongolia et cetera had had to be stopped. But it seems the web will always be reconstructed, in different fashions anyway, if the webmaker (spider) is not removed. The webmaker in this case is not the terrorist, but the actions and inactions that activate him.
In (North) Nigeria, I have observed the ways of those often engage in violent lawlessnesses and indecencies in the shroud of religious faith. I have noticed five things, primarily, at the root of religio-fanatic aggressions.
1* Differences in civilizational outlook (ideo-political values)
2* Collective jealosy
3* Socio-economic injustice persistent distributional and relational inequity)
4* Easy access to weapons
5* Brainwashed (massively ignorant, insular) populace or followers
Almost all of the actors and reactors of terrorism profess islam, though their target are always non-muslims.
But there is still the fact that Islam does not inhere terrorism. Just that some of its teachings appeal to, and provide cover for, the egoism of murderous minds with pseudo-religious loyalty. The same holy book (Quran) that contains the verse: "...there is no authority of infidels over muslims..." (Quran 4 : 41), implying that shar'ah has 'right' to try, convict and condemn one (unbeliever) in its court where the one can never be appointed a judge or jury also contains the verse: "...la kum din kum waliy adin..." (your religion is for you; mine is for me). In otherwords the problem may not be in the faith; not even in the regions, but in the people.
I am neither pro-Islam nor contra-Islam. What I am trying to do is understand why or how a system that inspires such lofty ideals of brotherhood is also the "constitution for mass(ive) destruction".
In Kano, for example, there are quarters or corners where ordinary Bible-thumber (whether genuine or opportunistic christian) would not enter and come out in one piece, even if his or her mission is vital to the musulum.
In Ouagadougou and Ouahigoya in BurkinaFaso, and in Senegal, one can play, paln, work with, and even recline among devout musulims without any threat whatsoever, physical or psychological, from any of them. Is Kano more islam-ful than those other places? Senegal's peoples are nearly all musulims.
But I am also endeavouring to understand why: while many people were mourning their relatives, horrifyingly rendered lifeless in 9-11 (September 2001), many other people trooped out dancing and prancing on behalf of the same horror. But even harmful desires need spark; they need conducement to become practical reality. These other people, had they been barely tolerating the USA before the tragedy ( would they have partaken directly in perpetrating the attack); or were they mis-informed, brain-washed, mass of human beings without personal conviction on the matter?
Is it that the USA and her ideo-social colleagues give too much rights to frivolous things and too little to what matter to other peoples on this earth? Americans campaign for the freedom and rights of all sorts of individuals, groups and other things ; even those (same-gender sex or matrimonial partners) in whose way the human race will cease to exist, non-violently, deliberately, in the next few generations. Yet a Socialist or a Marxist, let alone a Communist, has no open place in America. There are things America and her allies will react against with even greater vehemence than those outside their ideologic circle, including the terrorists, would do. Some of the "rights" in America constitute sacrilege to some other peoples. But they keep pushing them on others.
Is it that some multinationals issuing out of America et al (USA is not a lazy nation) are mere corporate brigands whose liaison with gullible, corrupt governments often render people inaffectionate, uncharitable, toward America? USA welcomes the largest number of immigrants on earth. But which immigrants? Are they not the ones whose home blood America and other groups use as blocks in building themselves? If not through financial systems, it's through environmental exploitation. These "corporate bodies" or multinationals begin by raising the hope of indigens; then they suspend them in frustration while their native environment (livelihood) are being plundered or polluted.
Is it that America diminishes the goodwill of harmless people by brazenly pursuing "her interests", harassing and calumniating some popular and legitimate governments just for not being subserviently aligned to her?
Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Cuba,...
You do not expect victims of your roughness to be sympathetic when you get hurt.
Is it that America, under "democratization cover" is filling the world with abstract and formalistic democracies that are, in practice, indistinguishable from tyrannic oligarchies?
Although, globalized terrorism sprouted from superpowers' impudence, it is not against the superpowers only.
I am still wondering, remotely, whether it is not possible that the internet and other supersystems of global communication...will not collapse someday at the hands of (cyber)terrorist...
Sunday, November 16, 2008
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