Meltha 2000, No 10 pages 24-25
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Meltha 2000, No 10 pages 24-25 |
THE
ROOTS OF MODERN TERRORISM
At modern times terrorism has been changing its color Red finally has been
ousted by green. The world revolution conception has sunk into oblivion. And
when something happens like this, we usually say "in for a penny, in for a
pound".
The Islamic ultra radicals following the world civilization trends have been
riding on a global scale to spread their ideas and fighting principles all
around them. This can easily be seen through their Internet playas well as by
escalation of political and religions strife on all continents. The modern world
is fragile. It is like walking on thin ice now. Almost everywhere in the former
Eastern-block countries the situation is tense and fraught with the threat of
terrorism. Such areas like Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Caucasus, Tadjikistan and
Kirgizia, where globalization of the conflicts was first set afoot, just are
swollen with violence and terror which have reached Asia and Africa as well
following the cease of confrontation between major world powers on these
continents. The political gaps between the walls of two world civilizations are
being actively filled with Islamic radicals longing to break these walls and
make these gaps bigger. In this connection it is important to know the
standpoint of the Christian world as large as NATO countries and Orthodox
Russia. On the other hand, what is the driving force of Islamic radicalism?
Let us venture to give an answer .
The powerful propaganda of
the West followed by the mass media of the former socialist block has dominated
over the public as of 1979 in all of its handouts trying to focus on "the
original sin" of ayatollah .Khomeini and his followers. This incentive has
very little ground especially when you know that powerful ayatollahs have failed
to do away with Salman Rushdi whereas Arabian terrorists blew down the US
embassies, shopping center in New York and elsewhere in the world as requested
by a certain Ben Laden. It is just absurd to think that Teheran is the
mastermind of evil. Not at all. Like cancer grows, the whole problem originally
stems and extends out of the Arab East, where two powerful ethos, Persians and
Arabs have shown throughout history the difference in culture, tradition and
mentality.
Bedouins actually have such a mentality which over years had molded them into a
kind of marginal tribe or group like Saracens or buccaneers and other
non-civilized clans who were orientated at nothing else than plundering the
fruits of civilization. Having become the passion Aries of the new times they
began with anew doctrine that in many ways coincided with what Muhammad, the
Prophet, brought into the ..world. They were ruthless from the start on the ride
to implant new ideals into the minds of the Arabs. The collapse of Baghdad
caliphate and then of the Ottoman empire that had brought all Arabs around as
one and molded them this way into one ethos, ended up the Arab domination over
other Muslims. It seemed that the first world war would put to it the final
stroke, but the policies pursued by Lawrence the Arabian and Winston Churchill,
both were so much enchanted by the oil in the Arab lands at the time, happened
to give Arabs one more chance. And they took it well. Anyway in the consequence
the Western type of living found its way into hearts of the Arab population and
the solid ranks of Muslims split. Arabs certainly understand that they are on
the threshold of a big reformation spell. With all that Renaissance brought to
Christians why should Muslims avoid this in the near future? Consequently the
nations who once rode on Islam will inevitably move away from it in the next
century. This way they will fall apart from the Arab determination hard line.
And the language alone will have to be remolded too. The peoples who profess
Islam will eventually want to use their native language for praying. As a
consequence, the Arab East will ultimately lose its powerful grip on the whole
Muslim world through Koran which was written in Arabic. The major point in the
Arab world doctrine is
It is this fear of losing the grip that pushes Arab leaders to a radical
face-off with the whole Christian world. In their extremities Arabs deny almost
everything in the world, whether it is Judaism or Hinduism, or Eastern
Christianity, Western Culture, Socialist and Communistic ideas. They have fear
for everything that they find around. In fact, they just fear to lose their grip
on power over masses in the Muslim world. And what is more, it seems that they
will stand fast until the Muslim world changes somehow toward rationality so
that the foundations of pan Islamism should curl up after all. In the event the
whole world will possibly see Islamic reincarnation and as a result, human
values will then prevail in the Arab world.
Anyway it would be very naive to think ,that principles of democracy and liberal
ideas will ultimately gain good ground in the East for whatever the West tries
to do to implant its way of life in the minds of Muslims, they tend to reject it
as hard as it gets to them. Anyway the Eastern Christians feel much in same way
as they live a life virtually unlike their Western counterparts.
In the view of Mr. Huntington's thesis on the conflict of two modern
civilizations it is very important to define their aims. In a big way the
Christian leaders tend to apply the classical double standard method in their
relationships with the whole world. And this tendency apparently is propagated
by both economic and political decisions to curl their competitors or rivals and
eventually to have a grip on the world progression. Hence it is quite clear why
the West backs up some reactionary Arab regimes in the attempt to maintain
control over the territory of the former Eastern socialist block. On the other
hand, some Russian politicians urge that some other reactionary regimes of the
Arab East should be by all means supported to oppose the USA as their main
target.
Results were awaited to come.
One thing is clear. Unless
Russia and the USA join together on a firm stand to crush down on Arab countries
which give money to stir up terrorism everywhere in the world, the latter will
continue to spread the poison all over the world.