Oslo terror, media hype and Western hypocrisy
Hameed Abdul Karim
Muslims the world over became apprehensive when the bombing in Oslo
took to the TV screens in all its horror. And they had every reason to
be so because all the international media, including Al-Jazeera, thought
it proper to point the finger at what they said could be ‘Muslim
extremists groups’ who were responsible for the atrocity with Al-Qaeda
being the chief suspect.
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To add to the variety Russia Today (RT) broke the news that a
hitherto unknown ‘Islamic terror group’ calling itself the ‘Al-Ansar
Something’ had called in to say they were the ones responsible for the
attack. Within a flash all TV networks latched on to the lead with all
the familiar sound-bites associated with Islam and Muslims and in no
time a new ‘Islamic terrorist group’ had taken centre stage on the world
scene. Muslims squirmed in shame and embarrassment as they reconciled
themselves to yet another act of terror the extremists had carried out
in their name and the name of their faith.
Later when it transpired the terror attack was indeed carried out by
a ‘native’ the TV stations sheepishly announced that ‘Al-Ansar
Something’ had called in to withdraw their earlier claim!
The fiasco conveyed the feeling that this new terror group had an
office somewhere in Oslo from where they communicated with the
international media. Why didn’t the authorities make any attempt to
trace the calls that went on between the media and ‘Al-Ansar Something’
leaves room to suggest the media was in on the hype a la the now
disgraced Rupert Murdoch owned News of the World? Not stopping at
Al-Qaeda, the media threw in another possibility. Was it the Kurdish
cleric under house arrest in Norway who was behind the attack?
‘No’ said the TV anchors ‘we don’t want to speculate but could it be
possible that Al-Qaeda was behind the attack’. The line of questioning
was similar to the Orwellian terms used by the West in their hell bent
desire to get Gaddafi. Leader after leader went on record saying ‘we are
not for regime change in Libya, but Gaddafi must go’.
No speculation
Credit, however, must go to the Norwegians for not falling prey to
the antics of the media. When asked if they believed Al-Qaeda or the
Kurdish Imam was behind the atrocity, they consistently maintained they
didn’t want to speculate. Perhaps, like Bill Clinton during the Oklahoma
bombing, the Norwegians too had inkling as to the real culprit behind
for the attack. This was much different to the 9-11 attack where, right
from the word go, the confirmed culprit was America’s erstwhile friend
Osama Bin Laden.
The TV networks showed a guy, moments after the twin towers collapsed
claiming that it was Al-Qaeda who committed this crime besides giving
his view on how the jet fuel caused the steel in the building to melt in
a jiffy. Up until today the story stands unchanged and unshaken - at
least in the mainstream media. Who was this ‘expert’ on the scene and
what was he doing there?
All this, however, does not in any way suggest that Norway is an
innocent nation even though Norwegians are lulled into believing they
are the goody-goody guys in the world with its Nobel awards and all.
Norway is in fact in a state of war against Libya and Afghanistan. Quite
a few of the sorties carried out against what the media calls ‘Gaddafi’s
forces’ instead of the ‘Libyan security forces’, have indeed been
carried out by the Norwegian Air Force, killing many civilians. The
names of the dead civilians in Libya will not appear in the media, but
you can be sure all the names of the dead in Norway’s terror attack will
eventually be published. Looks like Libyans and the civilians who are
routinely killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by NATO are sub-humans who
deserve to die for the good of the world.
Two or three?
When you ask anyone how many buildings collapsed on that fateful day
in New York the answer would be two. But is this true? Not many know
that a third building had also collapsed in a heap of rubble on this
very day within the same compound. This was the 47 storey Saloman
Brothers Building. But it was not struck by a plane.
In fact not even a gunshot was fired at it. How then did it collapse
and why is not the mainstream media talking about this curious happening
at least for curiosity sake if not anything else? Could 9-11 have been a
false flag operation like the US Maine, the Gulf of Tonkin and more
recently Saddam Hussein’s WMD? Many Americans believe that to be the
case.
The news is that Anders Behring Brevik is to submit a plea of
insanity. Information coming out is that Brevik was a ‘good boy gone
bad’ because of Islam and the Muslims.
He wanted, it is reported, to bring attention to his cause of driving
out Muslims from Europe and that he was disturbed (poor fellow) by the
prospects of Europe being deluged by Muslims and all that he wanted to
do was to protect Christianity in Europe. So once again we see that
despite the guy being a ‘Christian terrorist’ it is Islam and the
Muslims who must be held responsible for the actions of this poor little
blonde haired boy.
It is possible the man must have gone crazy with the propaganda
against Islam and the Muslims so rife in Europe and the US that it has
acquired a word of its own. It’s called ‘Islamophobia’. The hate
literature that has flooded Europe and the US is so extreme that it
reminds you of the propaganda against European Jews prior to World War
II. We know what followed. Is the same thing going to happen to Muslims?
Is history going to repeat itself?
Multiculturalism failure
David Cameron shouldn’t have made the remarks he made about
multi-culturalism failing in Britain, especially when a far right
extremist party in his country was on that very day demonstrating
against Islam and the Muslims.
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Destruction caused by the Oslo terror
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What is multi-culturalism anyway? Are Muslims required to abandon
their faith and names to be accepted in British society? Even if they
were to do that would they be alright afterwards? History shows us the
answer to that is in the negative. Just take a look at what happened to
the African slaves who adopted Christianity and even took the names of
their masters and you will get what I mean.
The book ‘Roots’ by Alex Hailey explains a lot on that subject as do
the lives of Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. It’s true
the Americans elected the first ever black president but look at the way
the far right parties headed by the likes of Sarah Palin and more
specifically Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News are treating him and you’ll get
my drift. Not that Obama is a saint. Like the US’s leading intellectual
Noam Chomsky had predicted, Obama has become a slave of the US
‘corporateocracy’.
As far as I recall the British when they occupied Sri Lanka, then
Ceylon they took all the steps they thought fit to avoid contact with
the ‘natives’. Up until recently a famous swimming club in the heart of
Colombo was exclusively white. Besides, when Muslims and those of other
faiths go to Europe or the States they are only following their money
trail. All Western nations have plundered and pillaged ‘third world’
countries to the last penny. Europe as Frantz Fannon said is the product
of ‘third world’ countries. Imagine if all former colonies of Europe and
the US were to sue their former masters for centuries of colonialism
what the figure would be in the waning US dollar terms.
It is time for Western nations to examine their consciences and
behave themselves in a manner fitting decent society. For starters let’s
tell them to put an end to their hypocrisy, their double standards and
their verbal as well as military attacks on Muslims and their faith. If
they do that we might be able to stop the next Anders Behring Brevik.
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