Islamic Terrorists: Creating A Frankenstein Monster -
American Policies
06 July 2010By Jane Stillwater
Back in approximately 1528, when the very first black
man was snatched from a village in Africa and shoved
onto a slave ship, somehow a ball got rolling that has
consequences even down to this day. That single act of
brutality began a long, slow process that eventually
resulted in the proliferation of violence and crime in
America's inner cities four centuries later.
Cruelty always gets the ball rolling, gets the party
started -- but in a bad way.
So. What cruelties, exactly, got the Islamic terrorist
ball rolling? Was it when the Qu'ran was revealed to
Mohammad (PBUH)? And if it was, then why aren't most
American Muslims now terrorists too? And why don't
their teenagers run in violent gangs like so many
Christian teenagers here do? Dearborn, in Michigan,
for instance, has a very large Muslim population and
the largest mosque in America. So why aren't the
Muslims of Dearborn all terrorists? Obviously it's not
their religion per se that is turning Muslims into
terrorists. So it must be something else.
"But what could it be?" you might ask. I think you
could get an answer to that question from any
competent psychologist since Freud. Terrorists aren't
shaped by their religion. And terrorist aren't just
born that way either. Terrorists are created by their
childhood experiences. Terrorists are created by
cruelty.
Take Afghanistan for instance -- a country that's
known for its terrorists. Those terrorists didn't just
suddenly spring full-grown from the head of Zeus. No,
they were systematically created by centuries of
systematic cruelty.
First the Brits brutally invaded Afghanistan. Then the
Russians brutally invaded Afghanistan. Then the
Americans brutally invaded Afghanistan. Brutality.
Cruelty. Injustice. And now we wonder why that poor
country is overrun with terrorists? Duh.
And then there's Iraq. The Brits systematically
destroyed democracy in Iraq. And Americans gave Iraq
three gifts that kept on giving: Saddam Hussein, Shock
and Awe and Abu Ghraib. In Iraq, Brits, Americans and
their European allies created a Frankenstein monster
-- step by step, day by day.
And during approximately the last 90 years, Palestine
has been systematically invaded by various forms of
Europeans -- not to mention the Crusades. Whether it
was Lord Balfour, King Richard or David Ben Gurion who
invaded the Holy Land, these Europeans have all worked
really hard to create Frankenstein monsters in
Palestine too -- and America to this day still keeps
footing these invaders' bills.
Sure, a few Palestinians have hijacked some airplanes
in protest -- but Europeans and Americans have
hijacked their entire region.
And remember how British Petroleum and the CIA worked
in tandem to violently destroy democracy in Iran and
to replace it with the West's own bloody Shah, king of
torture?
Face it, guys. The whole Middle East has been under
the jackboots of American and European colonialism,
imperialism and cruelty for a long, long, long time.
And, keeping that thought in mind, you might also
consider the suggestion that perhaps we are looking at
Islamic terrorists from the wrong perspective. Perhaps
if it hadn't been for the calming and civilizing
influences of Islam, all these Frankenstein monsters
that the West has cheerfully created in the Middle
East might have turned out even worse.
Consider what happened when Europe and America
unleashed their cruelty on the Congo, Rwanda and
Zimbabwe. At least the Middle East didn't turn out as
badly as all that. Maybe Islam actually helped give
Muslims something hopeful to cling to in the face of
all that Shock and Awe.
PS: As you may have already noticed unless you're
brain-dead or watch Fox News, the military-corporatist
structure that brought us Rwanda, Afghanistan and Abu
Ghraib is still in the driver's seat in Washington now
and still happily doing all its usual cruel nasty
stuff. Which can only make me wonder -- as our
democracy dies and so does our economy -- what kind of
Frankenstein monsters are they happily creating here
at home too?
PPS: And what, exactly, is the justification for all
this cruelty? Apparently the justification is greed.
Geez Louise! Just how many extra yachts do you guys
need? Is it true that Dick Cheney is the world's first
trillionaire? And has all this endless supply of big
bucks flowing seamlessly into his coffers from faulty
oil platforms and endless wars made HIM happy? Yeah
right.
PPPS: I am assuming that you do know that the oil
spill in the Gulf could be worse than anything even
the most fiendish terrorists could ever have done to
us, right?
I just read somewhere that there are billions of
teeny-tiny little crustaceans in our oceans and they
are using all that excess carbon dioxide in sea water
(which would otherwise be harmful to us) to build
their sweet little teeny-tiny shells. And if they
didn't build these shells, there would be too much
carbon dioxide in the oceans, it would be released
into the air and we would all die. So if the oil spill
kills off all these cute little guys in the same way
that it is now killing off dolphins and turtles, we
will be doomed.
To quote Wilbur the talking pig, "I don't wanna die!"
And speaking of pigs at county fairs, me and my family
are going off to the Alameda County Fair next
Wednesday. Joe and Ashley are going to buy me a
chicken -- to eat all the snails in my
postage-stamp-sized yard so that I can plant a victory
garden. I'll let you know how that goes.
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