Night 13-14 Nov was a tragic time in Paris when shooters and suicide bombers killed around 200 innocent citizens, leaving another 99 in critical condition. President Francois Hollande of French Republic declared these attacks as "An act of war against France". Terrorists selected 6 different soft targets to attack including a football stadium where a match was underway and was being witnessed by French President.
This act of brutality and terrorism is highly condemn-able and cannot be justified under any rationalization, whatsoever. Loss of lives of innocent children, women, and men is a collective loss of entire humanity, may it be in any part of the world. No religion, ethics, or human behavior allows or can justify such act of ruthlessness.
Apparently the responsibility of Paris attacks is accepted by ISIS; a terrorist militant group, active in Iraq and Syria but there is a need to analyze the incident more deeply, keeping in view some of the similar terrorist attacks in different parts of the world in the past. In the last three decades, our planet has seen severe surge of violence, intolerance, and terrorism. Its roots can be traced as back as the 50s to 70s era of cold war between USA and former USSR. Cold war had split the world in two major groups namely Capitalist bloc and Socialist bloc. At the face of it, the split seemed like two economic systems but in real these blocs were created in the hunt of power and supremacy against each other. This voracity caused a race of military might, ICBMs, WMDs and other lethal nuclear and NBC arsenal. Countries included in respective blocs signed mutual agreements of military defense namely NATO and WARSA pacts and undertook to mutually fight against any attacker. Besides building on military might, signing agreements of safeguarding mutual interests on economical fronts, and issuing guarantees to protect each other, a lot of covert activities started in opposite blocs as well as within the blocs. These activities included espionage through intelligence agents, scientific/ electronic monitoring and planting moles. These activities were two fold, one: to gain timely intelligence of opponents activities and two: to keep a check over own allies and ensure they were not in any sort of secret contact with opponent bloc. This kind of constant watch over allies was also necessary because besides political and geographical ideologies of different countries; who had joined a specific bloc, their religious and social cultures and attachments forced them to have relationships with countries in other bloc. Such dogma was more common in Arabic and Middle Eastern states as those were split in both blocs but were yet united being Arab/ Muslim states.
After USSR's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the situation worsened and NATO bloc proactively struck against the invasion. As a result of NATO's efforts, USSR not only withdrew from Afghanistan but also split into pieces. On the other hand, through passive support of USSR; in opposition to USA, Islamic revolution overthrew the rule of Pehlavi dynasty in Iran, who under the reign of Raza Shah Pehlavi, was a strong ally and the biggest protector of USA's interests in the region. USA considered these events in Afghanistan and Iran as transformation of geopolitical situation in Middle East (ME). After disintegration of USSR and claiming to be the sole super power in the world, USA decided to alter the paradigm to keep the region under her invulnerable control in future.
USA had sought help of Pakistan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Afghanistan and other Muslim countries by naming the fight against USSR in Afghanistan as Jehad (holy war of Islam) against pagan/ atheist oppressor. This moved religious pressure groups to enroll young men in private militia and through USA funding, Islamic seminaries were established to train the youth in war craft, especially guerrilla warfare. These trained militia were named as Taliban and were launched in Afghanistan to fight against USSR Army. USA provided them arms, ammunition, food, shelter and financial aid through the puppet military regime of Zia ul Haq. These Taliban were sponsored through rich business and interest partners of USA in KSA and other Islamic countries e.g., Bin Laden Group of Saudi Arabia who were partners of USA top leadership in oil exploration and extraction. Osama bin Laden, an employee of CIA was made in-charge of aid program to Taliban and was sent to operate in Afghanistan. After the withdrawal of Russia from Afghanistan, USA disregarded Taliban in Afghanistan and wanted to rule the country through a dummy, moderate, and incompetent ruler of Kabul. Taliban revolted against USA at this point and demanded their right to rule Afghanistan which they claimed to have earned through their physical participation in war to defeat USSR. USA in turn declared Taliban as terrorists (which were earlier labelled by her as Jihadis - Holy warriors of Islam). Osama bin Laden, seeing the transposed view of USA founded an Arabic based extremist group and named it as Al-Qaeda. He, through his vast financial resources, enrolled Arabic, Chechen, Uzbek, and other radical Muslims to form a rigid group who rejected to accept any other faction or jurisprudence of Islam and declared all other Muslims as Kafir (non-believers).
In Iran, USA lost her grip as soon as Islamic revolution was enforced, which was covertly supported by USSR. This caused general hatred against USA and a soft and sympathetic corner for USSR in the hearts of Iranians. USA did not accept this change and wanted to carry out her covert operations to regain her hold in the region. This time USA decided to activate 1400 old rift between Muslims in the name of sectarianism. KSA and Iran are very old rivals and their rivalry is rooted back to the times of Umar bin Al-Khattab, the second Caliph of Islam. It was during his time that Islamic forces of Arab peninsula attacked and captured Faris (present day Iran that was a super power of that time). The rivalry of both countries kept going till present day because KSA was ruled by Aal e Saud (Saud dynasty) who followed Wahabi jurisprudence of Islam where as in Iran Shia jurisprudence of Islam is followed. Wahabi and Shia factions of Islam has major differences in belief and these create a rift between the two sects. USA and her allies decided to start a proxy war in Pakistan and Afghanistan and further spread it to all the countries where Shia and Wahabi split was present. This would help the cause of USA and Western world as they were to obtain following goals:; -
This act of brutality and terrorism is highly condemn-able and cannot be justified under any rationalization, whatsoever. Loss of lives of innocent children, women, and men is a collective loss of entire humanity, may it be in any part of the world. No religion, ethics, or human behavior allows or can justify such act of ruthlessness.
Apparently the responsibility of Paris attacks is accepted by ISIS; a terrorist militant group, active in Iraq and Syria but there is a need to analyze the incident more deeply, keeping in view some of the similar terrorist attacks in different parts of the world in the past. In the last three decades, our planet has seen severe surge of violence, intolerance, and terrorism. Its roots can be traced as back as the 50s to 70s era of cold war between USA and former USSR. Cold war had split the world in two major groups namely Capitalist bloc and Socialist bloc. At the face of it, the split seemed like two economic systems but in real these blocs were created in the hunt of power and supremacy against each other. This voracity caused a race of military might, ICBMs, WMDs and other lethal nuclear and NBC arsenal. Countries included in respective blocs signed mutual agreements of military defense namely NATO and WARSA pacts and undertook to mutually fight against any attacker. Besides building on military might, signing agreements of safeguarding mutual interests on economical fronts, and issuing guarantees to protect each other, a lot of covert activities started in opposite blocs as well as within the blocs. These activities included espionage through intelligence agents, scientific/ electronic monitoring and planting moles. These activities were two fold, one: to gain timely intelligence of opponents activities and two: to keep a check over own allies and ensure they were not in any sort of secret contact with opponent bloc. This kind of constant watch over allies was also necessary because besides political and geographical ideologies of different countries; who had joined a specific bloc, their religious and social cultures and attachments forced them to have relationships with countries in other bloc. Such dogma was more common in Arabic and Middle Eastern states as those were split in both blocs but were yet united being Arab/ Muslim states.
After USSR's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the situation worsened and NATO bloc proactively struck against the invasion. As a result of NATO's efforts, USSR not only withdrew from Afghanistan but also split into pieces. On the other hand, through passive support of USSR; in opposition to USA, Islamic revolution overthrew the rule of Pehlavi dynasty in Iran, who under the reign of Raza Shah Pehlavi, was a strong ally and the biggest protector of USA's interests in the region. USA considered these events in Afghanistan and Iran as transformation of geopolitical situation in Middle East (ME). After disintegration of USSR and claiming to be the sole super power in the world, USA decided to alter the paradigm to keep the region under her invulnerable control in future.
USA had sought help of Pakistan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Afghanistan and other Muslim countries by naming the fight against USSR in Afghanistan as Jehad (holy war of Islam) against pagan/ atheist oppressor. This moved religious pressure groups to enroll young men in private militia and through USA funding, Islamic seminaries were established to train the youth in war craft, especially guerrilla warfare. These trained militia were named as Taliban and were launched in Afghanistan to fight against USSR Army. USA provided them arms, ammunition, food, shelter and financial aid through the puppet military regime of Zia ul Haq. These Taliban were sponsored through rich business and interest partners of USA in KSA and other Islamic countries e.g., Bin Laden Group of Saudi Arabia who were partners of USA top leadership in oil exploration and extraction. Osama bin Laden, an employee of CIA was made in-charge of aid program to Taliban and was sent to operate in Afghanistan. After the withdrawal of Russia from Afghanistan, USA disregarded Taliban in Afghanistan and wanted to rule the country through a dummy, moderate, and incompetent ruler of Kabul. Taliban revolted against USA at this point and demanded their right to rule Afghanistan which they claimed to have earned through their physical participation in war to defeat USSR. USA in turn declared Taliban as terrorists (which were earlier labelled by her as Jihadis - Holy warriors of Islam). Osama bin Laden, seeing the transposed view of USA founded an Arabic based extremist group and named it as Al-Qaeda. He, through his vast financial resources, enrolled Arabic, Chechen, Uzbek, and other radical Muslims to form a rigid group who rejected to accept any other faction or jurisprudence of Islam and declared all other Muslims as Kafir (non-believers).
In Iran, USA lost her grip as soon as Islamic revolution was enforced, which was covertly supported by USSR. This caused general hatred against USA and a soft and sympathetic corner for USSR in the hearts of Iranians. USA did not accept this change and wanted to carry out her covert operations to regain her hold in the region. This time USA decided to activate 1400 old rift between Muslims in the name of sectarianism. KSA and Iran are very old rivals and their rivalry is rooted back to the times of Umar bin Al-Khattab, the second Caliph of Islam. It was during his time that Islamic forces of Arab peninsula attacked and captured Faris (present day Iran that was a super power of that time). The rivalry of both countries kept going till present day because KSA was ruled by Aal e Saud (Saud dynasty) who followed Wahabi jurisprudence of Islam where as in Iran Shia jurisprudence of Islam is followed. Wahabi and Shia factions of Islam has major differences in belief and these create a rift between the two sects. USA and her allies decided to start a proxy war in Pakistan and Afghanistan and further spread it to all the countries where Shia and Wahabi split was present. This would help the cause of USA and Western world as they were to obtain following goals:; -
- Immediate hold on oil and natural resources of Middle Eastern states.
- Gain control in Afghanistan and Pakistan to keep a check over China and Iran.
- Keep Iran pitched in uncongenial and troubled situation against Saudi Arabia and other ME states.
- Ensure that Muslim Arab states remain busy in sectarian violence so that the state of Israel; surrounded by Muslim states, is safeguarded.
- Put a check on speedy spread of Islam in the West and create a wave of hatred amongst Muslims and natives of Western countries so that vast migration/ emigration of Muslims can be controlled.
- Control spread of Islamic seminaries and Mosques in the West.
- Weaken Muslims through internal disputes and polemicise to the extent that they indulge in bloodshed.
- Keep Muslims away from modern education, science, and technology by propagating only the rituals of prayers, fasting and other practices as the total purpose of religion, through planned course by foreign funded and sponsored religious clerics.
- Keep tyrant and illegal monarchs imposed over people so that Muslims remain oppressed, poor, uneducated and enslaved.
- Make them afraid of performing their religious obligations and making them believe that religion is a private affair. This is aimed to be achieved through demolishing holy and sacred places like tombs of Prophets, Family and Companions of Prophet Muhammad on the one hand and by bomb explosions, suicidal attacks etc on Mosques and Imam Bargahs.
Recent attacks in France have been owned by ISIS after two days, while international leadership and media had already started associating them with ISIS. This is not unprecedented as similar tactics was used after 9/11 in the US when the blame was ultimately accepted by Al-Qaeda. USA needed an excuse to launch physical attack and take control of Kabul so that Taliban were pitched in the battle in the name of "War on Terror" and puppet government of Hamid Karzai could be installed. In Iraq the legitimacy of NATO attack was bluffed on the plea of destruction of WMDs, Iraq was building up but till date no weapons of that sort have been recovered from Iraq where as about fifty thousand people have lost their lives in the war and post war Shia-Sunni conflicts. At the cost of blood of innocent civilians and state of unrest and uncertainty, USA, however has gained full control over Iraqi Oil and state resources.
To turn ME spring into autumn, USA/ NATO went further deep and raised armed and trained organizations like ISIS to fight against the governments in ME/ Arabian states. These militants were funded and equipped by the West to fight and create unrest in favor of USA/ NATO. This is a matter of serious concern that ISIS is being supported in Syria to fight against the government forces where as the same terrorist organization is opposed in Iraq.
In the west, in the name of "freedom of expression", incidents like publishing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad, burning of copies of Quran; holy book of Islam, and putting restrictions on observing hijab by Muslim women were supported by the governments. This attitude created a wave of hatred among Muslims of the world and they felt that such incidents were against the honor, respect, and sanctity of protocols of Islam. West must understand that becoming Policemen of the world, creating rift between different factions and sects of any religion, planting and nurturing radical fundamentalists and supporting/ aiding bloodshed will always have its negative fallout. It is a universal truth that "what goes around, comes around".
Although the loss of innocent citizens in Paris attacks are high condemned, the producers and suppliers of arms and ammunition to terrorists must notice that the blood of innocent women, children, senior citizens and young people is as precious as the blood of people who died in 9/11 attacks in USA or recently in France. Let the peace prevail and stop aiding/ supporting terrorist organizations operating in any part of the world otherwise, "what shall you sow, so shall you reap."
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