Democracy, Freedom and Human Rights not for Muslims

June 1, 2016 

This is the century old unwritten message of US. Europe, Israel and their mercenary Arab dictators to Muslims

by Latheef Farook  :  

A century old message of US, Britain, France, Russia, Israel and the Saudi led oppressive Arab dictators was-democracy is not for Muslims and the Middle East and North Africa should be ruled by dictators who should obediently carry out their western masters’ agenda.

 For example North African Muslim country of Algeria, part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire from 16th-century, was conquered by the France in 1830.

Algerians began their freedom struggle in 1950s and gained independence from France in 1962. During the freedom struggle, France killed around a million Algerians. Assassinations, torture, rape and other such crimes were common place. France “forced two million Algerians from their homes, many into barbed-wire concentration camps and saw the destruction of over 8,000 villages.

In the first ever parliamentary elections in December 1991 the Islamic Salvation Front, FIS, which blended religion with politics, was given a massive mandate. 

However the Algerians were not lucky enough to enjoy the fruits of their struggle for freedom and democracy as military leaders and their French masters were quick to suppress FIS and install a military regime.

The military regime banned street gatherings, declared a state of emergency, disbanded the FIS and dissolved all 411 FIS-controlled National People’s Assembly. Inevitably, there were violent clashes and the military was fully backed by France, West and Arab dictators.

Saudi Arabia was the first to recognise the military regime.  

       

In the violence around 180,000 people were killed and human rights organisations accused the military regime of brutality, abductions and torture and held them responsible for many of these deaths. 

The former Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia admitted for the first time in March 2006 of government forces killing 17,000 Islamic activists during the 1990s though he did not say who was responsible for the killing of more than 180,000 civilians in the conflict. Those Islamic activists killed were the cream of the Islamic force which tried to establish an Islamic state based on Shariah law through means of Western democracy.

Free and fair elections in Gaza and West Bank

In a spotless democratic election, held in January 2006, under the supervision of former US President Jimmy Carter who described it as free and fair, Islamically oriented Hamas was elected with an overwhelming majority.

Israel and its US, European partners and their Arab collaborators were alarmed. They wanted to crush people’s verdict and the rising democracy. They tasked Palestine Authority President Mahmud Abbas.

First Israel and its collaborators stopped all donations and cut off the flow of all money to starve Palestinian into submission. The Arab regimes too joined this financial blockade knowing very well the misery they were causing to Palestinians.

Though PA was defeated Israel, US, UK, Europe and their Arab collaborators recognized PA and ignored Hamas.

Six months later in June 2006 Israel bombed and    turned Gaza Strip into a virtual slaughter house.  In an unprecedented lawlessness and in violation of international law, Israel started mafia-style abduction of Hamas cabinet ministers, mayors and parliamentarians.

Once again  on 27 December 2008 Israel, using the most sophisticated and most destructive fighter planes and weapons supplied by United States, committed genocide on starving Palestinians in Gaza, which was virtually turned into a slaughterhouse.

Israel again attacked Palestinians in Gaza in 2012 and in July 2014. They were joined by Arab dictators in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery said “the message of Jews, the US and Europe to Palestinian is that you will reach the brink of hunger, and even beyond, if you do not surrender. You must remove the Hamas government and elect candidates approved by Israel and the US. You must be satisfied with a Palestinian state consisting of several enclaves, each of which will be utterly dependent on the tender mercies of Israel.” 

Arab Spring - uprising for democracy

In the midst Arab Spring was triggered off in Tunisia on 18 December 2010 when 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi, bread winner of his widowed mother and six siblings, set himself on fire after a policewoman slapped him for not handing over his wooden cart he used for selling fruits and vegetables at a place where he dint have permit to do so.

Mohamed Bouazizi’s suicide captured by cell phone cameras and shared on the Internet caused spontaneous protests all over the country calling upon President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his regime to step down. About a month later, he fled.

The momentum in Tunisia set off uprisings across the Middle East.

By the end of February 2012, governments were overthrown and rulers were forced from power in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen;  civil uprisings erupted in Bahrain, Syria; major protests broke out Algeria, Iraq,  Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sudan] and minor protests occurred in Mauritania, Oman, Arabia, Djibouti  Western Sahara, and Palestine.  

In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak resigned on 11 February 2011 after 18 days of massive protests, ending his 30-year presidency.

In the first ever free elections in 60 years in Jun 2012 Mohamed Morsi was elected president .President Mohamed Morsi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood—striving to introduce Islamic way of life.

Once again conspiracy mill started working in full swing. US, Britain, France, Russian Israeli, Saudi, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait conspirators were all out to crush rising democracy and dash all hopes and dreams of Egyptians. They staged a military coup, overthrew President Morsy and   installed former military chief, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi as President on Sunday 8 June 2014. 

Here comes the crux of the problem as regimes in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Israel , US and Europe consider Islam as the only threat to their existence and exploitations. Thus the joint plot to overthrow President Morsi.

First thing Al Sisi did after being sworn in as president was to thank the Israeli President Shimon Peres -perhaps for installing him in power to serve the Zionists.  Later Zionist war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that Israel planned and toppled President Morsi’s government in collaboration with Saudi, UAE and Kuwait - three countries jointly spent 11 billion dollars to crush democracy in Egypt.

This is the shameful state of affairs in the Middle East ruled by scoundrels.

In the uprising in Libya Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown on 23 August 2011and killed.

Encouraged by Arab Uprising oppressed Syrians too rose up demanding little freedom. The result was Syria was bombed and virtually turned into a waste land and emptied of its people who are forced to seek refuge in Europe in freezing cold.

All what the people in the Middle East and North Africa wanted was little freedom   .What did the so called champions of human rights in US, Britain ,France, Russia, Israel and their  mercenary Arab dictators do? They supported  dictators, triggered and aggravated violence ,bombed and destroyed the infrastructure of these almost developed countries and pushed them into pre medieval era, massacred people employing most sophisticated war planes and driven out prosperous people into refugee camps.

Israel which has been behind all wars  destructions and killings in the region, is the best beneficiary  .Now the political environment is created to establish  Greater Israel by annexing Palestinian occupied territories and parts of Egypt, Syria and Iraq so that the Middle East and North Africa will remain oppressed and brutalised for centuries to come. Ends

Latheef Farook is Colombo based Senior Journalist and Author. He could be reached at E mail   almfarook19@gmail.com