Alas, these headlines really say it all:
- Hamas prime minister backs Syrian protests against Assad
- Egypts Salafists go after Hamas Haniyeh
- Russian Secret Services: U.S., NATO, GCC Arm Syrian Rebels Through Iraq, Lebanon And Turkey
And all this after what happened in Libya…
Well, it also happened in Bosnia and Kosovo, of course, but I figured that what made so many Arabs and Muslims so blind to what was really going on was a knee-jerk response to the US Imperial propaganda about the fictional genocides of “Muslim civilians” by “bloodthirsty mass raping Chetnik brutes”, so while I was sorely disappointed by it, I did not bear much of a grudge either. Errare humanum est…
But now *LIBYA* happened with its own fictional genocides and with even a ‘mass rapes v2’ myth: Gaddafi soliders ‘armed’ with Viagra to rape even more. And this time the victims of this massive miscalculation were Arabs and Muslims! And, by God, even the deaf, dumb and blind should by now have understood how this all works. But no! Most Arabs and Muslims are still busy deceiving themselves and not realizing the horrible but totally obvious fact that all they are doing is voluntarily bowing their necks to the US/NATO/Zionist yoke!
How long will this self-destructive and absolutely stupid logic of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” still make people who (rightfully) hate the Milosevices, Gaddafis and Assads of this world automatically turn to Uncle Sam in the hope for liberation?!
And its not only the Arabs and Muslims, of course. Look at Central Europe: having just been freed from the Soviet yoke, what did they do? They immediately all ran to Uncle Sam to beg him to accept them as subservient US/NATO colonies.
During the Cold War there used to be a movement of non-aligned countries which, while not perfect, had a least some sense of self-respect. But today that seems to be all gone. Who still dares to be independent out there?
Iran. Russia. China. I would argue that India does a fair job most of the time. A few Latin American countries (Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua). And Hezbollah, of course.
Is it not about time for all those pretend ’empire resisters’ to finally grow a spine of some sort and stop being the hapless sniveling bitches of some powerful protector?
Darkness cannot be fought by more darkness. It can only be defeated by light.
The Saker
I’ve given up on commenting on pro-Palestinian and pro Arab sites because of this. Too many Muslims and Arabs have swallowed the Kool-Aid and bought into the fiction that the US is either there to help, or they accept the more common opinion that US intervention is a lesser evil to the regime being overthrown. I don’t want to be a divisive element by arguing with them. Indeed, there seems to be quite a bit of silence from other anti-imperliast commentators on sites I usually frequent, perhaps for the same reason.
Of course, many Muslim and Arab commentators are merely shills pushing the CIA/NED line, but that’s to be expected. The propaganda is often so clever it is sometimes difficult to argue against it without insulting Muslims or accusing people of being liars.
Haniyeh’s response is not unexpected. I have never trusted Hamas since the days when Israel first helped finance its rise as a counterweight to Fatah. The Muslim Brotherhood in general has a long if shaky history of being a tool of Western Imperialism, as have the Wahhabbii fanatics. Al Qaeda is a pseudo gang created by the US and as many times as we find it fighting on the same side as the US or simply engaging in acts that further the Zio-imperialist agenda I should think that would be clear by now.
@Sean: I’ve given up on commenting on pro-Palestinian and pro Arab sites because of this.
I consider myself very pro-Palestinian and generally I really like the Arab people a lot, in particularly of the Mashriq. And that is why I keep hammering the word “Hezbollah’ over and over and over again. Because Hezbollah is the *ONLY* viable force of the entire Arab world. IMNSHO. Granted, they did a rather mediocre job of handling the entire Syrian crisis, but let’s admit that there are put in a really terrible situation: to choose between Assad and NATO. Once you polarize the question like that, and that is justified in this case, then their support for Assad makes sense, however nauseating it must be for them (which I am sure it is, as it would be for any truly religious movement having to support a complete fake nationalist and fake Muslim like Assad).
Too many Muslims and Arabs have swallowed the Kool-Aid and bought into the fiction that the US is either there to help, or they accept the more common opinion that US intervention is a lesser evil to the regime being overthrown.
Sadly, you are absolutely correct. What a shame….
I don’t want to be a divisive element by arguing with them. Indeed, there seems to be quite a bit of silence from other anti-imperliast commentators on sites I usually frequent, perhaps for the same reason.
That is why I have this anonymous blog: so I can say whatever the hell I want and not care if that offends anybody. I want to say the truth as best as I see it and to hell with the ruffled feathers of whose who like simple solutions to complex problems.
I have never trusted Hamas since the days when Israel first helped finance its rise as a counterweight to Fatah
Same here. Besides, there is only one political figure which I trust in the entire world: Hassan Nasrallah. And that only for one reason: his absolutely *perfect* record, at least so far.
I would give the Islamic Republic of Iran – not to any individual, but the entire system – a very good “credibility grade” too. Not perfect, but way better than any other country, that is for sure.
My 2cts.
Islam =
@Sean
Muslims only support themselves and are against the US only when it directly goes against there group interest, other than that most of the time they fight and advance the agenda of the NWO a concept that I have tried to convey before on the blog in which Mr Saker does not seem to comprehend.
Hi, Saker;
My apologies for a totally off-topic post. This actually relates to a previous post of yours on the economic theories of Ron Paul. I didn’t respond to it at the time, because I did not have anything of unique value to add to the thread just then.
However, I have since found a website which might interest you. It is called “The ChesterBelloc Mandate” at:
http://distributist.blogspot.com/
This site is dedicated to the economic theory of “Distributism” articulated by G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc in the early 20th century. One of the priests in your Milan Synod, Fr. Raphael Johnson, endorses this theory.
http://reasonradionetwork.com/20111201/the-orthodox-nationalist-matt-johnson-on-the-antipodean-hour%E2%80%94distributism
Now, the ChesterBelloc website is very (indeed, stridently) Roman Catholic, which can be off-putting to people like us. On the other hand, just because you and I don’t believe that Roman Popes are infallible (or even dogmatically sound), doesn’t mean that everything a Roman Pope says is wrong! I can say, as a fellow Orthodox Christian, that I have more time for screeds like “Rerum Novarum” or “Quadragesimo Anno” than for anything by either Marx or Mises.
My own take on Distributism, is that it is a far more just concept than either Capitalism or Communism (which are simply two sides of the same evil coin, in my view). Unfortunately, there are few practical examples of how this can be made to work in the modern world. The ChesterBelloc website cites two current, viable examples, but I know of no others.
Are you familiar with, or have any thoughts, on Distributism?
Dear Saker,
Good points. I agree with you and with Sean on this…
Joe
Saker, I think a lot of it, at the grass roots level at least, is due to the influence of Saudi/Wahabi money and teaching.
They have spread their tentacles everywhere corrupting minds anywhere their malign influence gains a foothold, either through keeping people busy in obscure canonical matters ie keep the ppl politically dumb – or by being openly sectarian – they are obsessed with Shia and Iran.
Add to that the takfiri/salafi loonatics selling out or being manipulated into serving NATO interests and I think one arrives at the current state of play.
Imam Khomeini warned against what he called ‘American Islam’ – ie a watered down, submissive, secular, non-revolutionary Islam, friendly to Western/Capitalist interests.
Just my 2p!
Really appreciate your blog, thank you.
There’s at least one Arab commentator who gets it and as someone who played a key role in the Egyptian revolution he has credibility and can’t be dismissed as a stooge of the regime
http://www.socialistunity.com/foreign-intervention-destroys-revolution/
@Michael:
First and foremost: THANK YOU!!!!
I have never heard of distributism and so this is *immensely* interesting to me. ANY theory which aims at offering an alternative is immensely important and interesting and needs to be thoroughly looked at and evaluated, even if it has its flaws and weak aspects. So, again, I am very very grateful to you.
Then, a small clarification: on my blog there is no such thing as “off topic”. Its ALL on topic by definition, at least in my mind, as the core purpose of this blog is to try to have an intelligent and uncensored discussion aimed at establishing the truth in all its aspects.
Then, and just to reassure you, I am not the kind of bigot who dismisses anything Papist just because I don’t like the Papacy. In fact, I don’t dismiss any idea on the basis of who says it. Since Christ Himself clearly said “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s” and the topic at hand is very much of the realm of Caesar, I really don’t care about the religious beliefs of its proponents.
Anyway, this topics is so interesting that what I ended up doing is penning a full-length post about it which I will post in an hour or so. Stay tuned and, again, thanks!!
The Saker
@Anonymous0437: a lot of it, at the grass roots level at least, is due to the influence of Saudi/Wahabi money and teaching.
They have spread their tentacles everywhere corrupting minds anywhere their malign influence gains a foothold, either through keeping people busy in obscure canonical matters ie keep the ppl politically dumb – or by being openly sectarian – they are obsessed with Shia and Iran.
Which they hate. I completely agree. And when the sectarian argument is not good enough, they top it off with some bad old anti “Persian” nationalism…
@Robert: someone who played a key role in the Egyptian revolution he has credibility and can’t be dismissed as a stooge of the regime
Alas, in the West the guy will be dismissed as “socialist”. In the USA in particular, the word “socialist” has become an insult hurled at anything putatively non-American, non-patriotic and not-capitalist. Even a terminal Wall Street prostitute like Obama is called “socialist” by these dimwits..