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10 April 2004, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Sirajul Islam, Social sciences researcher and consultant Pisciculture Housing Society, Shyamoli, Dh
10 April 2004, 18:00 PM
The UK, other Western governments and the US are bracing themselves for more attacks by Iraqi freedom fighters. The seeds of militancy, hatred and fundamentalism directed against the West, used with such devastating effect only two weeks ago in Madrid, have been evident for more than a decade in the actions of angry young Muslims all over the world. The UK and US are finally starting to appreciate that the threats from the Iraqis had begun before the war began on March 20, 2003 and it would lead them nowhere blaming exclusively Saddam for neglecting the brewing storm. The US-UK mindset guided by the Israelis is just as liable as are the heads of those Western governments for making Muslims militants. Analysts may also reasonably conclude that by the time US-UK had completed the carnage in Iraq, wrong methods were being used to govern Iraq. True, there has been a limited victory against the Saddam forces in Iraq and Talibans in Afghanistan. But what are the benefits ? Neither the occupation forces' command has been strengthened in Iraq, nor could they mend the damage they did by lying to their own people and to the world.

Yet it is not just money (oil and business) and power (world hegemony) that motivated the US-UK axis to capture Iraq. On the contrary, they have created the most effective enemies that exist in the shape of 'sleepers' living anonymously in the communities they will try and destroy when they are given the orders to wake up and strike. The lessons of recent-day Iraq is not made up exclusively of suicide bombers. There are the common ordinary people who can be turned into frontline troops that can strike by themselves when the moment is judged to be right.

Ample evidence exists that not only the vast majority of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims are horrified with the atrocities being committed in Iraq and in Palestine by the US-UK-Israeli troops, but many non-Muslims share the same view. If this majority is to be mobilised to isolate the Zionist and Evangelical fanatics, the war against them will have to be fought at many different levels, mainly by non-violent ways and means. The presidents and prime ministers of the democratic West will have to pay more attention to the causes of discontent in mainly Muslim countries, whether it is political, economic or social injustice. These are the issues the West will have to address .

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