To
heighten the demands of human conscience, Arab masses view them barbarians of a
new age more savage than their predecessors crusader of the 12th century.
Incapacity
joined by insane egoism makes complacent oil producing Arab rulers to follow
the Western dictates despite internal challenges and intrigues of their
governance. Temptation and compulsion of evil and failure of moral and
intellectual leadership have jeopardized the present and future of whole of the
Arab-Muslim world. Viewing the mental microscope, aggressive sectarian daily
bloodbaths and militarization have articulated a sense of unreality.
Morally
indifferent and intellectually exhausted and incapacitated as they look, Arab
and Muslim leaders are waiting and waiting to see what happens next, missing
initiative and new imagination to the world of reason and prevalent reality –
planned violence and resulting cruelty are becoming the societal hallmark
across the Arab-Muslim world. They wait for miracle to happen out of nothing.
Exclusive materialism and militarization have devastated the Arab traditional
culture and psyche. Perhaps petro-dollar transitory prosperity has removed the
sense of fear and shame to embolden them to commit any crimes against the human
nature and the people. The struggle is between the Western supported
authoritarianism and the reasoning for political change by the Arab masses. All
and everybody is fighting. Throughout the century, Arabs have lost the battles.
The leaders appear entrenched in a new barbarianism unknown in human annals. If
one is asked, what are they fighting for? ....
The
Arab and Muslim world is turning into complete political cruelty and quagmire.
Man killing fellow man, all killing all, and reason not to be questioned. The
leaders and people appear to be on the same page of bloodbath, insecurity and
breathing oxygen in a conflicting time zone falling apart into the unknown.
They believe in nothing as if the Earth was dormant, as if there is no God and
life ceases to have a noble purpose of peace, harmony and co-existence. Western
war strategists are a crucial factor in bringing them to this perverted
status-quo of moral and human equilibrium. In an advanced 21st century of
knowledge, wisdom and information, man remains ignorant and arrogant of his
wrong thinking. Arab-Muslim authoritarianism enforced by the self-image to
commit planned violence and aggression against the revolutionary masses is
radiating across Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain. After five
years, the global community is just a symbolic spectator watching the heinous
crimes of the few against many.
There
is no World Order in place to protect the victims of the on-going bloody
atrocities. There is no International Law to forbid the disorder. Most
Arab-Muslim leaders lack capacity to imagine a viable political future and
understanding of the purpose of human life and its priorities within the scope
of living Earth and living Universe in which there is stern accountability of
man in relation to time and place. How should this man-made cruelty and
prevalent anarchy be stopped and mankind is saved from the scourge of bloody
sectarian and highly politicized war gone so wrong and becoming unthinkable in
consequences?
Had
they believed in God, humanity and purpose of life with defined accountability,
the Earth could have been a better place for all to co-exist peacefully. The
outrageous sectarian divides and killings of Sunnis, Shiite, Christians and
other minorities in the Arab societies are reaching to an appalling
catastrophic magnitude. Does the informed global community want to see the Arab
world to determine its own sadistic ending? Killing unjustifiably one innocent
human being is like killing of the whole of the humanity. The global warlords
represent cruel mindset incapable to see the human side of the living
conscience. William T. Hathaway (“America is under Attack!” Dissident Voice),
author of A World of Hurt and an adjunct Professor of American Studies,
University of Oldenburg, Germany, attempts to clarify how the US and Britain
have culminated havoc world of atrocities in the Arab Middle East:
“The
USA and Britain committed similar atrocities in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya,
Indonesia, and Afghanistan. We overthrew their governments, installed
dictators, undermined their economies — all to strengthen our business
interests. In every nation where we now have terrorism, we had first assaulted
them. America is under attack only because it is on the attack. It’s no wonder
they hate us. Imagine how we would feel if a foreign country were doing this to
us. We’d be fighting back any way we could…… If people knew this — knew how
easy it would be to stop terrorism — they wouldn’t want to fight this war.
That’s why the media ignore al-Qaeda’s demands. Western leaders don’t want
people to see that the war’s real purpose isn’t to stop terrorism but to
control the resources of this region. They actually want the terrorism because
that gives them the excuse they need — the threat of an evil enemy.”
Who
are the Real Barbarians - Western or Muslims?
“It
was under the influence of Arabian and Moorish revival of culture and not in
the fifteenth century, that the real Renaissance took place. Spain not Italy,
was the cradle of the rebirth of Europe...It is highly probable that but for
the Arabs modern European civilization would never have arisen at all; it is
absolutely certain that but for them, it would not have assumed that character
which has enabled it to transcend all previous phases of evolution. For
although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive
influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and
momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the paramount
distinctive force of the modern world and the supreme source of its victory.”
Robert Briffault, Professor Cambridge University (The Making of Humanity,
London, 1919).
Arabs
were once the pioneer of knowledge-based sustainable civilization lasting for
800 years – the longest period in human history. Today, the former colonial
thinkers and occupiers describe the Arabs and Muslims as “extremists”,
‘terrorists” and barbarians.” Throughout the 20th century and well into the
21st century, the oil richness failed to deal with emerging social, moral,
intellectual and political problems. Instead with militarization of the region,
increasing bloodbaths depicts a havoc political spectrum- floating without
roots and reason. Islam enriched the Arabs to become global leaders of a
progressive civilization, but the oil enhanced prosperity transformed them into
‘camel jockeys’ and object of hallow laughers after dinner jokes in the Western
culture. When the Arabs had a missionary zeal to “forbid evil and invite
mankind towards goodness”, they excelled in human change, moral leadership,
material progress and civilization. Money cannot buy wisdom, honor and human
integrity. The late Saudi King Abdullah and Sheikh Sabha al-Sabah of Kuwait
were both complacent in providing logistic support to George Bush’s 2003
invasion of Iraq and the massacre of approximately three millions Iraqis during
the prolonged occupation. The bogus “war on terrorism” could not have happened
if the Arab leaders - the frontline bogyman of the US Empire had useful mind,
intellectual capacity and integrity to challenge the most irrational and cruel
act in human history. The Arabs created a knowledge-enshrined pioneering
culture of tolerance, encompassing various ethnicities, faiths and languages --
thus inspiring the development of everything from mathematics to astronomy,
medical sciences, poetry, and imagination of futuristic human civilization,
education, law and justice, splendid architect defy gravity onward to library
science and lot more.
The
Arab-Muslim world failed to produce any leader of vision and intellectual
integrity for the changing and complex global affairs of the 21st century. When
Arabs were the leaders in Faith (‘Emaan’) and human values, they articulated a
unique civilization tolerant of diversity and varied cultural ethnicities and
built upon the unity of Islamic faith to nurture peaceful co-existence and human
development. If you list the discoveries and contributions of Muslim scholars,
they are countless. Do you know any other scientists or scholars whose
contributions were used in text books for six centuries in European medical
schools? Consider Mohammad Hussein Bu Ali Sina's Cannon of Medicine. The
Europeans changed his name to Avicenna so that nobody would recognize that he
was a Muslim scholar. It is said that Ibna Sina alone discovered and
authenticated 36 pharmaceutical formulas being used to this day. Marai Rosa
Menocal (A Golden Reign of Tolerance: The Ornament of the World: How Muslims,
Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, 2003),
explains: 'The lessons of history, like the lessons of religion, sometime
neglect examples of tolerance. A thousand years ago on the Iberian Peninsula,
an enlightened vision of Islam had created the most advanced culture in
Europe....In Cordoba, the library housed some 400,000 volumes at a time when
the largest library in Latin Christendom probably held no more than 400.'
....
The future is darkened by the forces of evil. Violence and hatred are fast
sinking the large landscape of Arab-Muslim societies into massive deaths and
societal destruction. Daily killing statistics generate media-frenzy supporting
Samuel Huntington’s (“The Clash of Civilizations”, Foreign Affairs, 1993),
claim of “Islam has bloody borders.”
Would
America and Israel Determine the Future of the New Middle East?
Are
the Arab leaders collaborating with the US and Israel policy agenda to
undermine the Arab nation states and the future of Palestine? The ultimate goal
is aimed at complete militarization, destabilization and continuous destruction
of the people, culture and economic environment of the Arab peninsula.
Throughout the oil exporting Arab world, some of the contemporary rulers have
turned out to be complacent in the US-Israeli strategic plans for the future of
the Middle East. The recent outcomes of the Israeli political elections and
return of PM Netanyahu gives ample concerns that Palestinian will face
formidable problems in pursuing the freedom goal out of the continued
occupation. Perhaps, Palestinians need new, educated and proactive coherent
leadership to deal with the 21st century’s critical political challenges.
Somehow neglecting the history, Israelis and Palestinians are not overcoming
the missing humanitarian, moral and intellectual communication norms and
linkages. When the European massacred and displaced Jews, Arabs welcomed them
in their own hearts and governance extending excellence in human dignity and
political prominence in An-Andalusia (Spain) and elsewhere. There is an urgent
societal need on both sides to rethink and to capitalize on moral, social and
intellectual communications between the Palestinians and Israelis to avert violence
and reject political hatred. Whenever any antagonists keep means of
communication open and accessible, human problems could be tackled by reason
and necessity of the human nature. Israelis and Palestinians are living and
informed entities and they must come up with action plans to co-exist at human
level of decency and sustainable future. Denying freedom to Palestinians would
be a denial to the freedom of self-oppressed Israelis politically and
intellectually with continuing occupation and wars. None of the Arab leaders
have ever come out to represent logically the public conscience on the issue of
Palestine and the establishment of an independent homeland for the people of
Palestine. An internationally acclaimed Canadian author, Eric Margolis (“Middle
East Peace is Buried”, Information Clearing House: 3/21/2015) brings home the
much perceived reality:
Who
is going to force Israel to follow this sensible, two-state solution to the
misery of the Palestinian people? Obama could not even stop Netanyahu from
coming to Washington and humiliating him before Congress. Is Obama going to
force Israel and its 650,000 armed settlers out of the West Bank? ....As for
the Palestinians, they don’t seem to have much hope. Chances for even a
rickety, feeble Bantustan state on the West Bank are gone. Netanyahu declared
no Palestinian state at the end of the elections race. He will, of course,
continue flirting with the US and EU over this worn-out question, making small
tactical concessions to allow his western allies to continue going along with
the charade that “peace talks” are still alive. They are not and have not been
for a decade. It just suits the western powers to continue this deceitful game
while Israel relentlessly annexes the Occupied Territories.
In
view of the unstoppable cycle of political killings and daily bloodbaths in so
many Arab states - Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Tunis, Bahrain and
spill-over to other oil producing Arab nations - and continuing militancy of
the ISIL and its chain reactionary rivalries of other extremist groups,
vengeful deaths and destruction... and dismantling of the socio-economic
infrastructures - is the Arab world coming to its own end? None of the Arab
leaders seem to care or to think of creative political initiatives and measures
to stop the cycle of sectarian killings and massive destabilization of the
region. Any objective-oriented analysis will point out that Arab authoritarian
leaders interdependent on America and Britain expect their masters to come and
rescue them in political crises. Obviously, America and Britain enjoin their
own political and military agenda and follow it through.
How
to Change Political Insanity into Moral Reasoning?
One
finds a fatal deficiency in the mindset of the Arab-Muslim leadership – a moral
and intellectual behavioral sinking with missing soul of curiosity and internal
mindedness. In situations of crisis and unusual emergencies, competent and
responsible leaders do not look towards convenient escape from reality but get
engaged and extend intellectual security to manage problems. What is the cure
to raging indifference and cruelty to the interests of the people of the
Arab-Muslim world, America, Europe and for that matter to the whole of the
global community? Looking at the Nature of Things, the universe encompasses
many challenging opposites - time, space, sun, moon, gravitational rotation of
the earth, fire, water, air, sand, floods, earthquakes, tsunami, disasters,
explosions, wars, destructions, bombing and all that can be imagined to destroy
the mankind and endanger the continued movement of the splendid, inspiring and
harmonious Universe. How it is that Man - a creation of God cannot co-exist
with fellow Man? Is Man by nature a blood thirsty creature? Why should few West
European leaders and President Obama have free hand in launching bombing
campaigns and killing the innocents in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria? Would they
dare to do the same against Russia in the Ukraine crisis? What rights do these
insane barbarians enjoin to engage in military intervention and massacre the
innocents in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and Syria day in and day out? American
shifting metaphor in policy will not end the Syrian bloodbath. It shows how the
ill-fated bombing coalition against ISIL is futile and meaningless. All Western
leaders are playing sadistic games of survival and exploitation. Dictators
never reason but dictate and so the landscape of the Iraq-Syrian conflicts.
When
would this planned and continuing cruelty come to an end? Is there a sense of
superiority and indifference to the interests of the global mankind? In its
2014 Global Thinkers statistics, Foreign Policy (“A World Disrupted: The global
Thinkers of 2014”) pinpoints that “something big requires a team rather than an
individual….” To enhance global peace and to undo the bogus wars on terrorism,
there is an urgent need for teamwork by all concerned not just the few self-
addicted warmongers who have consciously undermined the vital interests of the
mankind. The teamwork if undertaken with unbiased mind and without
pre-conceived notions could usher sustainable change and a new beginning
between those who claim to be at peace and somewhat superior than the ordinary
folks and those who are fighting reactionary wars of freedom against insanity
and catastrophic devastation of the human habitats.
To
change the world into peaceful co-existence and sustainable harmony, it is
incumbent upon the intellectuals, academics, visionaries, poets, philosophers
and thinking hub of the informed contemporary global community to perceive and
articulate new and creative ideas, new political imagination for the 21st
century organizations to be functional for the people, by the people and
accountable to the supremacy of the people’s will. Time and encompassing
opportunities warrant new thinking and new leaders enriched with new and
innovative visions for change and coherent future-making - The One Humanity.
But change and creativity and new visions will not emerge out of the obsolete,
redundant and failed authoritarianism of the few insane leaders. None have the
understanding of tangible peace or respect for human life and co-existence in a
splendid Universe. To challenge the deafening silence of the US and Europeans
(the powerful and hegemonic forces of the world governing system), for global
peace and security, the global humanity must find ways and means to look beyond
the obvious and troublesome horizons dominated by the few warlords as if there
were no rational being and people of reason populating the God-given living
Universe. The informed and mature global community looks towards those
Thinkers, educated and honest proactive leaders enriched with coherent unity of
moral, spiritual, intellectual and physical visions and abilities to be
instrumental to rescue it from the planned encroachment of the few Western warlords.
Wars never end but obsess the succeeding generations with unthinkable physical
pains, psychological, injuries and tormenting anguish to dehumanized effects
for ever. Pete Dolack (“The Art of Becoming Human”, Counterpunch: 3/13/2015) an
activist, writer, poet and photographer, blogs Systemic Disorder; attempts to
share the first-hand life experiences of the few US combatant soldiers fighting
the bogus war on terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan:
.
…That 22 veterans commit suicide per day is a grim reminder not only of the
harsh demands of military life but that the Pentagon effectively throws away
its veterans after using them.
There
are those whose injuries are obvious, such as Tomas Young, whose struggles were
shown in full intensity in the documentary Body of War. In the letter he wrote
to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when his death was impending, he put into
words his agony:
“Your
cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to
risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men
and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it
takes to put out the garbage. I have, like many other disabled veterans, come
to realize that our mental and physical [disabilities and] wounds are of no
interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We
were betrayed. And we have been abandoned.”
Kelly
Dougherty, “talk about my feelings of shame for participating in a violent
occupation.”
She
writes:“When I returned from Iraq ten years ago, some of my most vivid memories
were of pointing my rifle at men and boys while my fellow soldiers burned semi
trucks of food and fuel, and of watching the raw grief of a family finding that
their young son had been run over and killed by a military convoy.
Are
the Arab-Muslim leaders waiting for the unthinkable catastrophic end to their
own life cycle and time in history? To inhabit the world of new political
imagination beyond the obvious horizon, these leaders could imagine the same
ending as happened to the Romans by their own wishful constructs. Would the
estranged Arab leaders ever know and understand the cruelty of Wounds that can
be seen and those not seen!
By
Mahboob A. Khawaja
Source:
IRNA News Agency