The West's Selective Morality In Mali: The West Is Too Unprincipled And Too Immoral
17 February 2013
By Khalid Amayreh
The ongoing Malian crisis looks quite minor when
compared with far more tragic crises plaguing other
part of the world. Yet, we have seen France, with the
solid backing of the international community, embark
on a bloody crusade to dislodge Islamist fighters from
the sub-Saharan African country.
To be sure, the Islamist fighters in that region,
particularly those affiliated with al Qaeda, are not
quite sinless. However, it is sufficiently clear that
whatever evil these people have or may have committed
pales into insignificance when contrasted against the
genocidal atrocities and injustices taking place in
countries such as Myanmar, Syria and occupied
Palestine.
In occupied Palestine, Israel, which was created by
the West in the heart of the Arab world, has been
slaughtering Palestinians and other Arabs rather
wantonly for decades, destroying their homes, stealing
their land and expelling them from their ancestral
homeland to the four winds.
Yet, instead of pressuring the Nazi-like entity to
give up occupied territories and accept peace, the
West, including France, the US and Germany, chose to
strengthen the Zionist entity militarily, politically
and economically to the point of enabling her to defy
the entire world, including its guardian-ally, the
United States.
France, which prides itself on being the land of
Liberté, égalité and fraternité had supplied Israel
with a nuclear plant which enabled Israel to
manufacture hundreds of atomic bombs and nuclear
warheads which could incinerate millions of Muslims
and Arabs whenever supremacist Zionist Jews feel like
it.
It is the same France that sold Israel Mirage and
Mystère IVs warplanes to murder Arab villagers in
Sammou in 1966 and other places, just as the U.S gave
Israel the Phantom warplanes to allow her to murder
Egyptian school children at the Bahr el Bakar School
and workers at the Abu Za'abal in 1971.
In fact, Israeli atrocities are too many to be counted
in one article or even one book. However the point
that must be made is that the West bears a huge and
direct responsibility for every drop of Arab blood
shed by Israel, every home demolished and every tree
uprooted by the Nazis of our time.
The west had more than 60 years to try to make genuine
efforts to force Israel to make peace with her
thoroughly oppressed and tormented victims. But the
West chose appeasement vis-à-vis Israel until the
Zionist state reached the point of becoming able to
defy the whole world, thanks to its huge military
aggrandizement.
The second point I want to highlight to illustrate
western, including French and American hypocrisy and
moral duplicity is the situation in Syria. It is
really difficult to relate to the plight of the Syrian
people without invoking words like genocide. Yes, it
is a slow- motion genocide, but it is still genocide.
We are talking about a Stalinist-minded tyrant who is
seemingly willing to exterminate 10 or 15 million of
his own people in order to stay in power. With almost
religious zeal, Adolph (Bashar) El-Assad has so far
murdered tens of thousands of Syrians, maimed hundreds
of thousands and left virtually no residential
building or home intact.
As if this were not enough, it is more likely than not
that the Hitler of Damascus would use chemical weapons
to annihilate millions of Syria's Sunnis especially if
he sensed that his end was approaching.
But the question that must be raised in the face of
shocking western hypocrisy, a pornographic hypocrisy
by every standard of morality, is "which really
warrants a more urgent intervention from the moral
view point, the situation in Syria or the situation in
Mali?
The answer is more than obvious and exposes the
criminal double standards adopted by the international
community toward various issues and trouble spots in
the world. It is a morally-blind international
community that refuses to see the rivers of blood in
Syria but moves expeditiously to protect the
colonialist interests of "big players" in the vast
sands of sub-Saharan Africa.
The third example I want to mention to underscore
western hypocrisy is the heart-rending tragedy of the
Rehennga people in Myanmar, formerly Burma .
There the small Muslim community was the target of one
of the worst atrocities since the Second World War.
People, including children, even babies, were burnt
alive, women, including girls as young as five year's
old were brutally raped before they were summarily
hacked to death. In fact, the massacres of the
Rehennga have been too nefarious and too graphic to be
described in words. Interestingly, most of the
genocidal atrocities were carried out by
government-backed groups, including the Burmese army
and security forces.
Yet, we saw no real outcry from the West, apart from
some faint voices from some human rights
organizations. But no sanctions were imposed on the
Burmese government, no threats were made…no
ultimatums…nothing! Instead, Western officials visited
Myanmar, giving the impression that "everything was
fine."
The tacit message which the government of that country
received was hair-raisingly simple, namely that the
genocide against the small Muslim minority wouldn't
affect the West's relation with Myanmar.
This is why even internationally-celebrated human
rights defender Aung San Suu Kyi internalized the
message and expressed solid support for the genocide.
Why is this moral stagnation? Because the west, which
controls the international community, doesn't believe
in the sanctity and equality of human life.
Imagine, just imagine, how the West would have acted
if a few hundred Jews, not tens of thousands of
Muslims, were the victims of a pogrom or ethnic
cleansing scheme in a given country?
I imagine that alarm bells would instantly be rung
rather unceasingly in Washington, London , Paris and
even Moscow, yes Moscow , and won't stop ringing until
the aggressors are punished and destroyed. And I'm
sure there would be no disagreements at the UN
Security Council obstructing the issuance of a strong
resolution permitting military intervention. And even
if there were disagreements, the US and its allies
would act unilaterally and swiftly.
I am not writing these words in the hope of awakening
the dormant conscience of governments in Europe and
North America to intervene to stop the virtual
genocide in Syria or ethnic cleansing in Palestine and
Myanmar .
The truth of the matter is that the West is too
unprincipled and too immoral to be expected to hasten
to adopt a moral policy towards world issues,
especially when the victims are Muslim..
In the final analysis, the west is part of the
problem. Thinking it is part of the solution is the
apogee of naïveté.
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