Bolder actions I propose to end Islamic Terrorism
Shodja Eddin Ziaïan
I am outraged but not shocked, by what happened to the courageous journalists of Charlie Hebdo.
In 1979, I witnessed the killing of Iranians by the Islamists, and the ‘Islamic Revolution’ against the Shah of Iran being applauded by the international community.
In 1994, Shapour Bahktyar, a prominent Iranic freedom fighter opposed to the Islamic regime was killed in Paris. His convicted killer, sentenced to life in prison, was freed by a French court in 2010 to receive a hero’s welcome in the IRI.
In 1996, another prominent Iranian in exile in Paris, who had changed his Arab-Muslim name (‘Reza Mazluman’) to a Persian-Iranic name (‘Kurosh Aryamanesh’) and had started publishing a newsletter named ‘We the Free / We the Liberated’, critical of Islam and political Islam, was assassinated. What happened to his killer(s) and what action did the French government takes? None that I know of.
During all these past years since 1979, governments in the ‘developed’ world, exchanged and traded hostages and prisoners with various Islamic groups and ‘States’. Many acts of Islamic terrorism took place around the world taking many lives, including the infamous September 11, 2001 attack in New York.
So why, today, does French President François Holland as well as many other ''western leaders'', pretend to be 'shocked' by the mass killing at Charlie Hebdo? Hellooooooo! Wake up!
I am not shocked at all. This sort of occurrence was all too predictable, and will continue to be if we don't take proper action.
Rather than shocked, I am saddened and depressed; I am also outraged and furious at the continuous incapacity of our Nation-State ''governments'', and our outdated international system which includes the so-called UN inherited from WW2, to react appropriately in order to be appropriately proactive. I do not mean acts of war such as those of George W Bush, Dick Cheney, and other not-so-innocent alleged criminals. I do mean actions for peace.
For example, when are we going to take action to stop the mental abuse of children by their parents? Parents should be prohibited from indoctrinating their kids in the outdated peace-threatening and violent Abrahamic ideologies of Judaism, Christian fundamentalism, and Islam.
I am also outraged that we are led by politicians promoting egotism, who lead people to continue the modern system of ‘mercantilism’ and ‘economism’, calling it wrongly ''western civilization'', when we are urgently in need of post-modern institutions and rules.
The moral vacuum in the absence of cosmopolitan post-modern institutions, rules and mindsets will continue to be filled by the anachronism of a cosmopolitan reactionary Islamic ideology.
We must change our mindset, and create a New World Order.
It means to stop tolerating and promoting in the name of ‘economy’ the outrageous destruction of Mother Earth, to stop tolerating and befriending in the name of political correctness regimes like that of the Saudis (in exchange for oil), to stop tolerating artificially-created ‘States' like Qatar, Pakistan, and the Emirates, states all created by a 19th- and 20th-century colonialism foreign to the region, and led by greedy merchants.
Oil productions and revenues in the Persian Gulf Emirates and Qatar should go to, and be administrated by, a ‘reformed’ and true United Nations Organization (the present one represent States, including many artificially-created ones, not nations). Let us deprive Saudi Kings and Qataris Emirs of the oil resources with which they finance the Taliban, Al Qaida, the newly proclaimed ''Islamic state'', and the like. In fact, Qatar and Saudi Arabia were the only two ‘States’ in the world to officially recognized the Taliban’s rule in ''Afghanistan''. And ''Afghanistan'' is another artificial ''State'' created by the same 19th-century mercantile colonialism, as was Iraq in 1920. Regional political borders were then traced and designed on purpose to create conflicts, divide, and rule.
Logic alone will stop Islamic ideology and Islamic terrorism. Logic dictates that a system destroying Mother Earth should be stopped. Logic also dictates that borders created intentionally to create conflicts, even war, should be changed to natural borders supportive of peace. Logic dictates that building a new world order, a World Order for Peace, is crucial.
Shodja Eddin Ziaïan (with the editorial assistance of Dr. Brian Elliott)
Shodja Eddin Ziaïan
I am outraged but not shocked, by what happened to the courageous journalists of Charlie Hebdo.
In 1979, I witnessed the killing of Iranians by the Islamists, and the ‘Islamic Revolution’ against the Shah of Iran being applauded by the international community.
In 1994, Shapour Bahktyar, a prominent Iranic freedom fighter opposed to the Islamic regime was killed in Paris. His convicted killer, sentenced to life in prison, was freed by a French court in 2010 to receive a hero’s welcome in the IRI.
In 1996, another prominent Iranian in exile in Paris, who had changed his Arab-Muslim name (‘Reza Mazluman’) to a Persian-Iranic name (‘Kurosh Aryamanesh’) and had started publishing a newsletter named ‘We the Free / We the Liberated’, critical of Islam and political Islam, was assassinated. What happened to his killer(s) and what action did the French government takes? None that I know of.
During all these past years since 1979, governments in the ‘developed’ world, exchanged and traded hostages and prisoners with various Islamic groups and ‘States’. Many acts of Islamic terrorism took place around the world taking many lives, including the infamous September 11, 2001 attack in New York.
So why, today, does French President François Holland as well as many other ''western leaders'', pretend to be 'shocked' by the mass killing at Charlie Hebdo? Hellooooooo! Wake up!
I am not shocked at all. This sort of occurrence was all too predictable, and will continue to be if we don't take proper action.
Rather than shocked, I am saddened and depressed; I am also outraged and furious at the continuous incapacity of our Nation-State ''governments'', and our outdated international system which includes the so-called UN inherited from WW2, to react appropriately in order to be appropriately proactive. I do not mean acts of war such as those of George W Bush, Dick Cheney, and other not-so-innocent alleged criminals. I do mean actions for peace.
For example, when are we going to take action to stop the mental abuse of children by their parents? Parents should be prohibited from indoctrinating their kids in the outdated peace-threatening and violent Abrahamic ideologies of Judaism, Christian fundamentalism, and Islam.
I am also outraged that we are led by politicians promoting egotism, who lead people to continue the modern system of ‘mercantilism’ and ‘economism’, calling it wrongly ''western civilization'', when we are urgently in need of post-modern institutions and rules.
The moral vacuum in the absence of cosmopolitan post-modern institutions, rules and mindsets will continue to be filled by the anachronism of a cosmopolitan reactionary Islamic ideology.
We must change our mindset, and create a New World Order.
It means to stop tolerating and promoting in the name of ‘economy’ the outrageous destruction of Mother Earth, to stop tolerating and befriending in the name of political correctness regimes like that of the Saudis (in exchange for oil), to stop tolerating artificially-created ‘States' like Qatar, Pakistan, and the Emirates, states all created by a 19th- and 20th-century colonialism foreign to the region, and led by greedy merchants.
Oil productions and revenues in the Persian Gulf Emirates and Qatar should go to, and be administrated by, a ‘reformed’ and true United Nations Organization (the present one represent States, including many artificially-created ones, not nations). Let us deprive Saudi Kings and Qataris Emirs of the oil resources with which they finance the Taliban, Al Qaida, the newly proclaimed ''Islamic state'', and the like. In fact, Qatar and Saudi Arabia were the only two ‘States’ in the world to officially recognized the Taliban’s rule in ''Afghanistan''. And ''Afghanistan'' is another artificial ''State'' created by the same 19th-century mercantile colonialism, as was Iraq in 1920. Regional political borders were then traced and designed on purpose to create conflicts, divide, and rule.
Logic alone will stop Islamic ideology and Islamic terrorism. Logic dictates that a system destroying Mother Earth should be stopped. Logic also dictates that borders created intentionally to create conflicts, even war, should be changed to natural borders supportive of peace. Logic dictates that building a new world order, a World Order for Peace, is crucial.
Shodja Eddin Ziaïan (with the editorial assistance of Dr. Brian Elliott)
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