08-04-2003, 09:05 PM
Legal Challenges
George W. Bush deceived the Muslims by promising that he will help to remove the Secret Evidence Law. He did worse by issuing unconstitutional decrees of No Evidence Law, racist anti-Islam decrees, and passed the unconstitutional Patriot Act. Muslims must establish a multi-million dollar legal fund to challenge all the Bush and Clinton era laws in the Supreme Court to have them removed from the books. In addition, there should be class action law suits against George Bush, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld and others in the government.
Failure of Muslim Organizations
Muslim's lobby organizations, American Muslim Council (AMC) and MPAC have failed in getting anything of value done except tokenism and a pacifier, such as prayers before an opening session of the House and Senate and a few Eid and Iftar parties in Ramadan in the White House. Muslim organizations have not been able to influence American government policies, domestic or foreign. These organizations have made no impact on the American media. This failure is built into the system. A lobbying effort without the support of the masses is doomed to failure and Muslim organizations like AMC, MPAC and other such organizations of Muslims have no work in the masses.
American Zionists mobilize masses, Christians, Jews, Secular and others in their support before going to the Administration, Senate or the Congress with their agenda. When they get to these government agencies, they find that the media and the masses were already supporting their causes and they get what they want.
Muslim organizations have nothing comparable in the American masses except a few Fax messages and Email messages sent only to Muslims; these messages are motivated mainly for fund raising. Outreach to the non-Muslim population is not in their plan or agenda because they do not understand how the American political system works and they have no realistic long-term vision.
American Government Policies Towards Muslim World
The American government, Administration and Congress, totally disregard the aspirations of the Muslim masses worldwide and pursues its own interests. If the Muslim masses do not like American policies, the American government engineers a military coup and a military dictator is appointed who fulfills the wishes of his masters, the Americans. Israel disrespects dozens of UN Security Council resolutions and the American government does not care.
Bosnia and Herzegovina belonged to the Muslim majority but the West allowed the Serbs to murder hundreds of thousands of Muslims and dislocate hundreds of thousands of other before dividing this small country into three parts.
In Kosovo the U.S. and NATO waited until thousands were murdered and many thousands of others were dislocated before the Serbs were checked.
For 54 years India disregarded the UN Security Council resolution for the plebiscite in Kashmir yet the West did nothing. When Kashmiris resorted to war for freedom, the West labeled them terrorists.
The Israelis have resorted to military suppression of the freedom movement of the Palestinians. The Muslim world sees Israeli terror against the Palestinian as American terror by proxy because America pays the salaries of Israeli soldiers and provides all armaments which are used against the people of Palestine. In the Philippines Muslims have been fighting for their freedom and they have been labeled terrorists.
East Timor, a Christian majority island, began a war of freedom and the West immediately pressured Indonesia into holding a referendum and giving them statehood.
The Muslim masses are frustrated, sick and tired of hypocrisy and the double standard of the West, particularly! the U.S. government.
Muslim masses are sick and tired of American appointed and supported dictatorships all over the Muslim world.
American Media Policies
In the sphere of foreign policy, especially towards the Muslim world, the American media has become the fourth branch of the U.S. government. The media keeps American masses ignorant of the truth; misinforms, disinforms and poisons people's minds into blindly supporting government policies, even when such policies are harmful for the U.S. except for a few capitalists. This situation frustrates and angers Muslims all over the world.
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THE APOCALYPTIC AGENDA OF THE NEO-CONSERVATIVES
Ahmad Faruqui,
Ahmad Faruqui is an economist and a fellow at the American Institute of
International Studies in California. He is author of Rethinking the
National Security of Pakistan, to be published later this year by Ashgate
Publishing in the UK.
Neo-conservative writers have become increasingly vocal about an
apocalyptic conflict involving the United States and Muslim world.
Start with Norman Podhoretz, the former longtime editor of Commentary and now a Hudson Institute fellow. Podhoretz calls for en masse regime change in the Middle East, beginning with Iraq and Iran from the original "axis of evil" list, and extending it to Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, the Palestinian
National Authority, Saudi Arabia and Syria. He wants the United States to
unilaterally overthrow these regimes and replace them with democracies cast in the Jeffersonian mold.
What neo-cons seek is not just a political transformation of the Muslim
Middle East. Their end game, as Podhoretz says in Commentary, is to bring
about "the long-overdue internal reform and modernization of Islam."
Rather than being dismissed as fringe thinking, these pronouncements frame
the hard-right boundary for debates in conservative political circles.
The neo-cons are determined to bring their apocalyptic vision to reality --
even if their critics dismiss their call to arms and American triumphalism...