Radical Islam is our self-made, imaginary enemy — the myth of the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ and the War on Terror is really a war on you!

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.   This video is six hours long, but since it’s the weekend, people should find time to watch it – if they truly want to understand radical Islam and terrorism. If people want to condemn Muslims and terrorism, they should first inform themselves by watching this before speaking out on the subject. I wanted to write a lot more, but recently I haven’t been feeling well, so I’m sorry I didn’t write more extensively. I still have a lot to say, but it’s really hard for me right now because of how I feel. However, recent events regarding Iraq and Pakistan have convinced me that I need to revisit this topic, which I’ve addressed in many of my posts. My most recent post on this topic is: The Myth of the “Clash of Civilizations”. Edward Said (Islam, Gramsci and ideology – so how our world is created) I also want to write something about myself because people may think I could be biased. I am not Muslim, and I am not from an Arab country. I was raised in a Christian religious family in one of the most religious European nations - Poland. That’s why my defense of the Muslim and Arab world is not rooted in any personal bias from being Muslim or Arab. I simply want to be objective. Please understand that my defense of Muslims and the Arab world is not based on any personal bias. In one of their recent videos, The Duran mentioned a Pakistani representative speaking out about Pakistan wrongdoing. But they forgot to mention an important point: the Pakistani representative stated that Pakistan had done horrible things in the name of America and the West, including Britain. The most important part is that Pakistan didn’t commit these acts because they wanted to - they did so under orders and in the name of the West and the American empire, or as I often call it, our "Capitalist Criminal Empire." I could write about this all day, but I’ve already addressed this subject in the past, so I’ll try not to go on too long. All of this ties back to one quote that I’ve used many times, including in the post I linked above The entire U.S. ruling class, ruling elite, comes to see terrorism as the preferred means, indeed the only means, to provide social cohesion, to provide an enemy image for the society, to keep it together. According to neocon theory from Carl Schmitt, you have to have an enemy image in order to have a society… This is a very dangerous thing because now it means that the entire social order - political parties, intellectual life, politics in general - are all based on a monstrous myth. — Webster Tarpley (Historian), Zeitgeist movie After the fall of the Soviet Union and Communism - which had provided that “enemy image for society” - a new enemy had to be invented. With the Cold War over, a new war was launched: the War on Terror. A new enemy in the form of Islamic terrorism was invented to provide this “enemy image for society, to keep it together.” Our Western support for radical Islam didn’t begin only after the end of the Cold War. We in the West have supported radical Islam for a very long time, as Noam Chomsky explains in this short video. 3:47 Part of the legacy of Ronald Reagan, during the Reagan years, Pakistan was ruled by the most awful of its many horrible dictators, Zia-ul-Haq. He had two major policies: one was to carry out radical Islamization of the country with the funding of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is the center of radical Islam and also the center of funding of jihadism, and also the leading ally of the United States and Britain. Traditionally, the US and Britain have been supporting radical Islam throughout the region. There are good reasons for that, and they continue to. The reasons are to—you can tell it from the internal documents, British and American internal documents—the reason is kind of a rational analysis. The real threat, they say, is the virus of secular nationalism. That's dangerous. Secular nationalism, say Nasser for example, can lead to the possibility of efforts to try to take the resources of the region and use them for their own populations rather than for the benefit of the West and the ruling super-rich ruling families. So that's a real problem, and the only barrier to secular nationalism, to the virus of secular nationalism as it's called, is radical Islamism. So the US and Britain as well have been strongly supporting radical Islam for a long time and continue to. It's a little ironic when you hear them complaining about the Muslim Brotherhood, which by comparison is moderate Islam. And that remains true. Saudi Arabia, for example, is given free rein to crush demonstrations. No talk of no-fly zones there. There was a day of rage called in Riyadh, but the police presence was so extensive that nobody could even show up; they were too intimidated. Same in Kuwait. These are rich oil states which have loyal dictators, so therefore they're free to do anything they like.   The West has supported radical Islam for a very long time. Our true enemy was secular nationalism because it threatened our ability to exploit these regions. We were more afraid of the Arab world educating itself, understanding the global system, and embracing socialism - which would challenge our dominance. That’s why we supported radical Islam. Simply put, we preferred the Arab world to remain uneducated, focused on literal interpretations of the Quran, rather than educating themselves and reading Karl Marx. As long as they remained radically religious and didn’t progress intellectually, they were easier to control and exploit. This radical religiosity served as a tool to keep them backward, uneducated, and compliant. Just look at Mohammad Mosaddegh and what we did in Iran. Mosaddegh wasn’t a radical Islamist - he was a secular nationalist who wanted to modernize Iran, move it away from the dark ages of radical Islam, and make it more like secular Europe. And what did we do? We destroyed him and installed a fascist dictator in his place. That ultimately led to the radical Islamic revolution in Iran. So, all of today’s radical religiosity in Iran is, in part, the result of Western interference. Iran could be a secular, modern country today, but we didn’t want that - because an educated and independent Iran would be harder to exploit. We destroyed the Arab world and did everything we could to keep it backward. If that meant supporting radical Islam, then that’s exactly what we did. And now, we point fingers at them and say, “Look how horrible, backward, and evil they are - when in reality, they are like this largely because of us. Who are our allies in the Middle East? No Title No Description Add to that Egypt under military dictatorship, Pakistan with its wrongdoings, and Turkey. If you understand all this, you can better grasp the context of Russia’s actions in Chechnya and China’s issues with the Uyghurs. Here’s a perfect exampl, our "ally" Turkey is training Uyghur fighters to destabilize China. Has anyone ever asked why Russia supported Bashar al-Assad in Syria? Assad was fighting radical Islam, while we in the West created it, supported it, financed it, and used it for our own interests. Max Blumenthal explains this best in his videos, particularly his breakdown of the “new U.S. Cold War with Russia,” which I’ve shared many times. 9:29 This is the part of it, you know. You have to understand the fear of Russia having Nazis on their border. And then, of course, Syria - I don't want to spend more than 10 seconds on it - but we enacted a built one billion dollar program to arm and equip what we considered to be moderate rebels in the only allied state in the Arab League, the only state allied with Russia. So, Nazis and jihadists coming at you on your borders or in your ally in the middle of your allied states marching on their capitals. Timber Sycamore - Wikipedia Timber Sycamore was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar al-Assad from power. Who are the biggest supporters of Islamic radical terrorism? Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, and Pakistan - all allies of the West. This is why it infuriates me when I hear completely ignorant, uneducated people claiming that Radical Islam is our enemy. If that's true, then why are all the states that support radical Islam our allies? We constantly hear claims that Iran supports radical Islam and terrorism - just like we heard that Bashar al-Assad was supporting terrorism - only to see him targeted and replaced with rebranded versions of Al-Qaeda. Some people may take offense when I say this, but when those attacks happened in Germany, with individuals driving into crowds, you shouldn’t have blamed Arabs, Muslims, or Islam. You should have blamed your own intelligence agencies. We created Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS, and countless other terrorist organizations. They are our own creations. If you live in the West and want to blame someone for terrorism and terrorist attacks, blame yourself for being ignorant - and for voting for the people who created them. We in the West are responsible for most of the evil in this world. So when someone says, “Islam and terrorism are our enemies,” they clearly don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. If you live in the West, you live in a Capitalist Criminal Empire responsible for immense global suffering - and all of this can continue due to public ignorance. The worst part is that our entire historical narrative has been manipulated and misrepresented to perpetuate the myth of a “Clash of Civilizations” and the stereotype of “evil” Islam, Arabs, and Muslims. Ironically, the most educated people are often the most misinformed and indoctrinated - making them the hardest to convince of the truth about Western imperialism and our destructive global role. I recently had a discussion with a well-educated friend, an educated historian, who is convinced that Muslims are evil and that Islam is an inferior religion and culture. A lot of misinformation and propaganda has been embedded into his thinking. However, I recently discovered a historian, Dr. Roy Casagranda, who does excellent work debunking myths and propaganda about Islam, Arabs, and Muslims - especially the ways history has been manipulated to serve Western narratives. Don't get me wrong - when it comes to recent geopolitics, he's unfortunately quite misled and aligned with mainstream narratives. I even saw him speak at the “9th Energy Council CETEOR” conference, funded by USAID and associated with WEF agendas, where he repeated a lot of establishment nonsense. So I wouldn’t recommend him for current events or recent history. But his work on ancient history and the distortion of Muslim and Arab contributions is excellent. Here’s a great lecture of his on Western culture and historical manipulation: 54:19 ...east-west divide, this Western civilization thing where we've left it out, and I didn't discover it until I was probably about 18 or 19. I'll just admit, I was already obsessed with history. I realized something, and that was I didn't know anything about the Middle East during the medieval period. I knew a little bit about ancient Egypt, I knew a little bit about Mesopotamia, and you—I remember Hammurabi, right, in his crazy code, "everybody's blind and toothless," good, I was sick. So that was, that was what we focused on. Of course, not Cyrus the Great and his, "hey, worship the gods you want, I will support that monetarily." No, no, we focused on Hammurabi. I knew, I knew a lot about Rome, I was obsessed as a kid, and I knew a little bit about the Greeks. I didn't know anything about the Persians, right? Like, they hadn't yet made the movie, so I didn't know they were tall, gay, and black. I knew a little bit about the Vikings. I didn't know anything about medieval, medieval Middle East. And I found this book on it. I went to the library, and I found this book, and it was written by a certain Sir John Bagot Glubb Pasha. His name is John Glubb, but you know how sometimes people get a little carried away with their names and start adding stuff to it? So, Sir John Bagot Glubb Pasha—"Pasha" is a title, obviously, so "Sir"—and he had, he'd been in the British military, and when the British pulled out of what was then called Transjordan, Palestine, but they got renamed Transjordan, and then they got renamed just Jordan. So today, it's the Kingdom of Jordan. When the British pulled out of Jordan, he stayed behind. He went to the Jordanians and went, "I don't ever want to leave. I was born British, but in my heart, I'm an Arab. Let me stay." Anyway, "yeah, we need skilled officers," and he became a general in the Transjordanian army. And he stayed behind, and he wrote a series of books, and I got a hold of one of these books, and I read it, and I couldn't believe the hole in my knowledge base. And then I went, "fun," another one of his books, and I read it, and I started trying to fill this hole. The hole was the Arabs. The Arabs, it turns out, had invent—had built this massive empire overnight that embraced knowledge and was shockingly tolerant. It was similar to the Persian Empire. In fact, it's really remarkable because if you look at the area that the Arabs conquered, they conquered everything from Spain to Pakistan. When they built their empire, it was like the Persian Empire plus most of the Roman Empire combined, so it was bigger than any empire that had preceded it. One of the things that's remarkable about it was the majority of the world's Christian population was in that empire. 60% of all of Christendom was in that Muslim-ruled Arab Empire in its first couple of centuries. There were almost no Muslims in the Arab Empire; they were the rulers, but they were like 5% of the population because they didn't force anybody to convert. So not only did they end up with the majority of the Christian population of Earth, but they were majority Christian also, and it was okay, they were tolerated. That Christian population was tolerated, it tolerated and integrated into their society because they were a tolerant empire. Now, what's remarkable about this is they began to advance human knowledge. The lens invented by Ibn al-Haytham—the same guy who invented the camera—he's also the guy who realized that light traveled in finite speed, at a finite speed, in waves and could be broken down into its constituent colors and that all objects in the universe exert gravity on each other. He also invented the world's first ever scientific method. He stated Newton's first law of motion 600 years before Newton, dabbled in calculus 600 years before Leibniz and Newton, stated Kepler's first law of planetary motion 500 years before Kepler. There was Avicenna, the guy who invented modern medicine. He's also the guy who came up with the idea of singularities. He effectively postulated the Big Bang. He's the guy who kicked off phenomenology that was Searle and Heidegger will later on take on and develop further, right? There was this huge blossoming of scientific and philosophical knowledge in that time period. Ibn Khaldun, the father of political science, the father of history, the father of sociology—the Arabs invented literary studies where you would, you would look at literary sources for the purposes of trying to figure out what the truth was—for the purpose of trying to understand, in other words, the English departments, all their existence—these guys. How can that much be carved out of your historical knowledge when all of it is Western? That's, that's the key to this. The knowledge that the Arabs were building off of was Western, the knowledge that they made was Western, and the answer is that what we did was we intentionally, we created this east-west paradigm to divorce the Arabs and the Persians from the rest of the West. That this was an intentional thing, right? This represents the manipulation of history. How much of what we think we know is actually true? In reality, much of it isn't. People are indoctrinated through this distorted version of history, which is why the most "educated" individuals are often the most resistant to the truth - because instead of learning, they were indoctrinated. We glorify Western culture - and yes, there are great aspects to it - but people don’t realize that much of what we are taught is propaganda. History is written by the victors, and since the West won the battle for global domination, we also won the battle over the narrative - over history itself. We rewrote history to justify our supposed superiority, and people read this propaganda and believe it, making them incapable of forming an objective understanding of history and the world. Here is a fragment from the main video attached to this post (at 7:43): George Francis Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, wrote in 1886 about the British strategy of using divisions between Muslims and Hindus to their advantage—along the lines of the Roman imperial strategy of divide and rule: "I think the real danger to our rule, not now but say 50 years hence, is the gradual adoption and extension of Western ideas of agitation [and] organization. If we could break educated Indians into two sections holding widely different views, we should by such a division strengthen our position against the subtle and continuous attack which the spread of education must make upon our system of government. We should so plan educational textbooks that the differences between community and community are further strengthened." I want to highlight two key points in this quote. First: “the subtle and continuous attack which the spread of education must make upon our system of government.” This perfectly illustrates what I’ve been saying - Western powers didn’t want colonized people to be educated because education would lead them to understand how they were being exploited. If promoting radical religiosity - such as radical Islam - kept them uneducated and easier to control, then we supported it. We preferred they read the Quran literally and remain socially and intellectually backward than read Marx and become politically aware. Second: “We should so plan educational textbooks…” This is the essence of manipulation - explicitly designing education to divide and mislead. As mentioned in the video fragment featuring Dr. Roy Casagranda, our history has been manipulated over and over - from ancient times to modern history. Just because something is written in a book and taught in school doesn’t mean it’s true. The West - the victor in the struggle for global dominance - has shaped the narrative to serve its interests. This post is already quite long, so I’ll just close by briefly referencing the War on Terror, quoting from the Zeitgeist movie: 1:38:11 “ So, where are we now? September 11th was the jump-start for a hegemonic agenda, enabling the possibility of constant global warfare. It was a staged war pretext, no different than the sinking of the Lusitania, the provoking of Pearl Harbor, and the Gulf of Tonkin lie. In fact, if 9/11 wasn't a planned war pretext, it would be an exception to the rule. It has been used to launch two unprovoked illegal wars, one against Iraq and the other against Afghanistan. However, 9/11 was a pretext for another war as well: the war against you. The Patriot Act, Homeland Security, the Military Tribunals Act, and other legislations are all completely designed to destroy your civil liberties and protect those in power currently in the United States. Unannounced to most Americans, your home can be searched without a warrant, without you being home. You can, in turn, be detained indefinitely with no charges revealed to you, no access to a lawyer, and legally tortured, all under the suspicion that you might be a terrorist. … It's time to wake up. The people in power go out of their way to make sure you are perpetually misled and manipulated. The majority's perception of reality, especially in the political arena, is not their own; it is shrewdly imposed upon them without them even knowing it. For example, the public at large now believes the invasions of Iraq and the Middle East, along with the resulting instability, are the consequences of political and military mistakes. What the public fails to see, of course, is that the destabilization of the Middle East is exactly what the Western interests want. This war is to be sustained so the region can be divided up, domination of the oil maintained, continual profits reaped for defense contractors, and most obviously, permanent military bases established to be used as launching pads against other oil-bearing, non-conforming countries such as Iran. For further implication that the civil war and destabilization is purely intentional, in 2005, two elite British SAS officers were arrested by Iraqi police after being caught driving around in their car shooting at civilians while dressed up as Arabs. After being arrested and taken to a jail in Basra, the British army immediately demanded the release of these men. When the Basra government refused, British tanks came in and physically broke the men out of the Basra prison. If you wish to destroy an area, how do you do it? Well, in two ways: you can go in there and bomb it and so forth, but that is not very efficient. What you do is you try to get the people in that area to kill each other and to destroy their own territory, their own farms, and that's what's been done in that area. The way in which you destroy an opponent is to get him to destroy himself by dividing his ranks against one another. Then you feed both sides, you have agents feeding both sides, inflaming both sides, and they kill each other off. It's time that some of us woke up to this reality, to understand that people who try to maintain empires and create empires do it by manipulating the people they're trying to conquer. You might want to ask yourself why the entire culture is utterly saturated with mass media entertainment from all sides, while the educational system in America continues its stupefying downward slide since the U.S. government decided to take over and subsidize the public school system. What your government pays for, it gets. When we understand that, then we look at government-financed institutions of education and see the kind of students and the kind of education that's being turned out by these government-financed schools. Logic will tell you that if what is being turned out in those schools was not in accord with what the state and the federal government wanted, then it would change. The bottom line is that the government is getting what they have ordered. They do not want your children to be educated. They do not want you to think too much. That is why our country and our world has become so proliferated with entertainments, mass media, television shows, amusement parks, drugs, alcohol, and every kind of entertainment to keep the human mind entertained so that you don't get in the way of important people by doing too much thinking. You had better wake up and understand that there are people who are guiding your life, and you don't even know it.  … The last thing the power establishment wants is a conscious, informed public capable of critical thinking. This is why a continually fraudulent zeitgeist is output via religion, the mass media, and the educational system. It is in their interest to keep you in a distracted, naive bubble, and they are doing a damn good job of it. This is Aaron Russo, a filmmaker and former politician. To his left is Nicholas Rockefeller of the Council on Foreign Relations. After maintaining a close friendship with Nicholas, Aaron eventually ended the relationship, appalled by what he had learned. I got a call one day from an attorney woman I knew, and she said, "Would you like to meet one of the Rockefellers?" I said, "Sure, I'd love to." And we became friends, and he began to divulge a lot of things to me. So he said to me one night, he said that there's going to be an event, and out of that event, you're going to see, we're going to go into Afghanistan so we can run pipelines from the Caspian Sea. We're going to go into Iraq to take the oil and establish a base in the Middle East, and we're going to go into Venezuela and then try and get rid of Chavez. And, uh, the phrase too, they've accomplished Chavez, they didn't accomplish. And, uh, he said, "You're going to see guys going to caves looking for, looking for people that they're never going to find." You know, he's laughing about the fact that you have this war on terror, there's no real enemy, just talking about how by having this war on terror, you can never win it because this is the, there's an eternal war, and so you can always keep taking people's liberties away. And I said, "How you can convince people that this war is real?" He says, "But the media, the media can convince everybody it's real. I mean, you know, it's just that you keep talking about things, you keep saying it over and over and over again, and eventually people believe this. You know, you created the Federal Reserve in 1913 through lies, you create 9/11, which is another lie. Through 9/11, you then you're fighting a war on terror, and that was, then you go into Iraq, which was another lie, and now they're going to do Iran, you know?" And so, one thing leading to another, leading to another, leading to another. Now, I would say that, "Why, what are you doing this for? What, what's the point of this thing? You have all the money in the world you'd ever want, you have all the power." I said, "You know, you're hurting people, it's not a good thing." And he would say, "What do you care about the people for? Take care of yourself and you take care of your family." And then I said, "What's the ulti, what are the ultimate goals here?" To the ultimate, the goal, the ultimate goal is to get everybody in this world chipped, into the tree, with the RFID chip, and have all money beyond those chips and everything on those chips, and if anybody wants to protest what we do or violate what we want, we just turn off their chip. “ Thanks to everyone who stuck with me until the end of my post. And, as always…   “Knowledge will make you be free.” ― Socrates + “Knowledge isn’t free. You have to pay attention.” ― Richard P. Feynman = “Freedom is not free, you need to pay attention.” ― Grzegorz Ochman   Please pay enough attention, or we will all be screwed. 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