9/11 a conspiracy to make Israel unchallenged super power in Middle East?

Latheef Farook
September 12, 2017

The 16th anniversary of 11 September 2001   attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and Pentagon was observed with the western media, including pro-western mainstream Sri Lankan media, accusing Muslims of committing this crime.

Western media, integral part of the western war machines, unleashed a fierce campaign accusing Muslims of destroying WTC and justified US led   wars against Muslims countries. 

However independent media in different parts of the world started to question the allegations that Muslims were responsible for the tragedy. Many suspected that this was an inside job to justify the subsequent wars which turned Middle East into a killing field.

Few months after the incident an advertisement carried in The Sydney Morning Herald, in Australia, suggested that twin towers did not fall because they were hit by the plane, but because an electronic detonation made them collapse. The advertisement, by Jimmy Walter, who offered one million US dollars to anyone who proved that explosives were not used in the demolition of the World Trade Centre, challenged the US government to “Re-open the investigation and address the unanswered questions of 9/11”. Walters stated that photos taken on September 11, 2001, showed no signs of the wrecked aircraft - no cabin, no tail and no engines.

However no one came forward to challenge him.

Since then several political analysts, websites and magazines made similar suggestions, questioning how four hijacked jumbo jets were able to fly off-course across several states without encountering any opposition from the most powerful and responsive air force in the world. 

Later details began to emerge accusing Israel’s spy agent MOSSAD and the US intelligence network of  planning and executing this tragedy to   blame  Muslims  to justify  destruction of Middle East  and   mass killings of Muslims to loot their wealth and make Israel the unchallenged super power in the region.

Such details continue to emerge. One such was an article by columnist Baxter Dmitry under the title “IA Agent Confesses on Deathbed: ‘We Blew up WTC7 On 9/11’ on July 13, 2017 here are some parts of the article.

 “79-year-old retired CIA agent, Malcom Howard, has made a series of astonishing claims since being released from hospital in New Jersey   and   claims he was involved in the “controlled demolition” of World Trade Center 7, the third building that was destroyed on 9/11.

Howard a New Jersey native had said he worked on the CIA operation they dubbed “New Century” between May 1997 and September 2001, during a time he says the CIA “was still taking orders from the top.” Mr. Howard says he was part of a cell of 4 operatives tasked with ensuring the demolition was successful.

Mr. Howard says the World Trade Center 7 operation is unique among his demolitions, as it is the only demolition that “we had to pretend wasn’t a demolition job”. He claims he had no problem going through with the deception at the time, because “when you are a patriot, you don’t question the motivation of the CIA or the White House. You assume the bigger purpose is for a greater good. They pick good, loyal people like me, and it breaks my heart to hear the shit talk.”

Explaining how the building was bought down, Mr. Howard says, “It was a classic controlled demolition with explosives. We used super-fine military grade nanothermite composite materials as explosives. The hard part was getting thousands of pounds of explosives, fuses and ignition mechanisms into the building without causing too much concern. But almost every single office in the Building 7 was rented by the CIA, the Secret Service, or the military, which made it easier.” However accusing Muslims of destroying WTC, then US President George Bush together with then British Prime Minister tony Blair, launched a vicious military campaign against Islam and Muslims under the guise of fighting war on terrorism. It was so comprehensive that it struck at the very root of political, military, economic, financial, social, religious and even cultural life of Muslims all over the world. 

Weeks later, in February 2006, during a congressional hearing, the Pentagon presented its four-year plan for a protracted war which would end with the destruction of what it described as Islamic extremism while another report by a US military academy emphasised the need to promote inter-Muslim warfare. These ghastly reports, disclosing Bush and his neo con team’s conspiracy against Islam and Muslims were buried by the Western media though subsequent developments proved this. 

The unjust and indiscriminate killing of innocent Muslims caused even the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to openly emphasise the dire need to define, with moral clarity, what terrorism is, and urged world leaders to agree on a universal definition on terrorism.

The hysteria created was such that even to suggest that the 9/11 attacks were a response to American policies in the Arab and Muslim world was met with outrage and condemned as “unpatriotic”,  “treacherous”, or as “appeasement” of terrorism.

Subsequent developments showed how Bush and Blair and the subsequent US and British governments exploited the grief and sympathy to implement their pre-planned designs to topple regimes in Muslim countries and install puppet leaders in their drive to redesign the Middle East to suit their goals. 

Due to this tirade by the head of the world’s sole Super Power, all Muslim countries, individuals, Islamic banking and financial institutions, organisations – especially religious ones – and charities, mosques, religious schools and anything and everything related to Islam and Muslims have become objects of suspicion and hatred. Calls for the elimination of these Islamic Institutes are being echoed by the Western media in servitude to Bush, helping his Christian Fundamentalist agenda to stem the spread of Islam in the US and Europe.

Since then Muslim men with beards and women with headscarves remain afraid to move freely in many countries, especially in the West. The situation is such that   all Muslim men and women, in one way or the other, have come to be regarded as fundamentalists, demonised as potential terrorists and their lives brutally extinguished, often without any justification.

Muslim governments were blackmailed and forced to explain their innocence and disclose details of Islamic organisation activities on the pretext of investigating links to the Al Qaeda organisation in their countries. 

Under this campaign, every Muslim religious school was under close scrutiny and the age-old religious schools have been deliberately subjected to unwanted and unnecessary harassment. Unable to withstand the pressure, many Islamic religious schools in different parts of the world, including Pakistan, were closed down or forced to downsize their operations. Most of these religious schools were funded by philanthropists from the Gulf and other countries and these benefactors and other generous Muslims were ordered by their respective governments to stop their contributions to   schools.

This resulted in the closure of many of these theological academies which depended solely on such contributions for their existence. The menacing manoeuvre to target such schools was no less an insidious design to strike at the very core of Islamic society. Its aim was to forcibly preclude the teaching of Islam and thereby preclude the turning out of Islamic scholars who through these halls of learning had been carrying the torch of Islam’s message for generations. It seems obvious that the primary intention was to snuff out the spread of a great and gentle faith by conveniently employing the hobgoblin of terrorism as a smokescreen.

The tragedy is that the “Western media” has become an integral part of the war machine and feeds the world with lies, more lies and nothing but damnable lies justifying the agendas of these destructive invisible forces. Today the overall smear campaign, had successfully managed to turn the world against the Muslims, and hijacked even the legitimate freedom struggle of Muslims portraying them as “Islamic” terrorists. The fair word of Islam, which means peace, has been tarnished by the Western media to such lengths that it is now inextricably linked it to terrorism.

Anti-Muslim campaign

As the well laid out conspiracy started to unfold in different parts of the world, Muslim refugees fleeing their homes became a common sight on television networks on a routine basis. The latest being the US- Saudi destruction of Yemen and the genocide of Muslims in Myanmar. The  US,UK France, Russia and Israel together with their treacherous Arab dictators destroyed countries such as Afghanistan,Iraq,Syria, Libya, Somalia and many more besides senselessly massacring millions of innocent Muslims and thrown them into refugee camps to suffer in abject poverty.

The latest being the on-going genocide on Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar’s armed forces and Buddhist murderous thugs.

Helpless Muslim all over the world watch in dismay at the injustice perpetrated against them and their inability to take any concrete initiative to undo the damage with their regimes keeping them under a siege and turning a blind eye to the atrocities.to please US and European masters.

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Ram Puniyani
February 10,2020

Noam Chomsky is one of the leading peace workers in the world. In the wake of America’s attack on Vietnam, he brought out his classic formulation, ‘manufacturing consent’. The phrase explains the state manipulating public opinion to have the public approve of it policies—in this case, the attack of the American state on Vietnam, which was then struggling to free itself from French colonial rule.

In India, we are witness to manufactured hate against religious minorities. This hatred serves to enhance polarisation in society, which undermines India’s democracy and Constitution and promotes support for a Hindu nation. Hate is being manufactured through multiple mechanisms. For example, it manifests in violence against religious minorities. Some recent ghastly expressions of this manufactured hate was the massive communal violence witnessed in Mumbai (1992-93), Gujarat (2002), Kandhamal (2008) and Muzaffarnagar (2013). Its other manifestation was in the form of lynching of those accused of having killed a cow or consumed beef. A parallel phenomenon is the brutal flogging, often to death, of Dalits who deal with animal carcasses or leather.

Yet another form of this was seen when Shambhulal Regar, indoctrinated by the propaganda of Hindu nationalists, burned alive Afrazul Khan and shot the video of the heinous act. For his brutality, he was praised by many. Regar was incited into the act by the propaganda around love jihad. Lately, we have the same phenomenon of manufactured hate taking on even more dastardly proportions as youth related to Hindu nationalist organisations have been caught using pistols, while police authorities look on.

Anurag Thakur, a BJP minster in the central government recently incited a crowd in Delhi to complete his chant of what should happen to ‘traitors of the country...” with a “they should be shot”. Just two days later, a youth brought a pistol to the site of a protest at Jamia Millia Islamia university and shouted “take Azaadi!” and fired it. One bullet hit a student of Jamia. This happened on 30 January, the day Nathuram Godse had shot Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. A few days later, another youth fired near the site of protests against the CAA and NRC at Shaheen Bagh. Soon after, he said that in India, “only Hindus will rule”.

What is very obvious is that the shootings by those associated with Hindu nationalist organisations are the culmination of a long campaign of spreading hate against religious minorities in India in general and against Muslims in particular. The present phase is the outcome of a long and sustained hate campaign, the beginning of which lies in nationalism in the name of religion; Muslim nationalism and Hindu nationalism. This sectarian nationalism picked up the communal view of history and the communal historiography which the British introduced in order to pursue their ‘divide and rule’ policy.

In India what became part of “social common sense” was that Muslim kings had destroyed Hindu temples, that Islam was spread by force, and that it is a foreign religion, and so on. Campaigns, such as the one for a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Rama to be built at the site where the Babri masjid once stood, further deepened the idea of a Muslim as a “temple-destroyer”. Aurangzeb, Tipu Sultan and other Muslim kings were tarnished as the ones who spread Islam by force in the subcontinent. The tragic Partition, which was primarily due to British policies, and was well-supported by communal streams also, was entirely attributed to Muslims. The Kashmir conflict, which is the outcome of regional, ethnic and other historical issues, coupled with the American policy of supporting Pakistan’s ambitions of regional hegemony, (which also fostered the birth of Al-Qaeda), was also attributed to the Muslims.

With recurring incidents of communal violence, these falsehoods went on going deeper into the social thinking. Violence itself led to ghettoisation of Muslims and further broke inter-community social bonds. On the one hand, a ghettoised community is cut off from others and on the other hand the victims come to be presented as culprits. The percolation of this hate through word-of-mouth propaganda, media and re-writing of school curricula, had a strong impact on social attitudes towards the minorities.

In the last couple of decades, the process of manufacturing hate has been intensified by the social media platforms which are being cleverly used by the communal forces. Swati Chaturvedi’s book, I Am a Troll: Inside the Secret World of the BJP’s Digital Army, tells us how the BJP used social media to spread hate. Whatapp University became the source of understanding for large sections of society and hate for the ‘Other’, went up by leaps and bounds. To add on to this process, the phenomenon of fake news was shrewdly deployed to intensify divisiveness.

Currently, the Shaheen Bagh movement is a big uniting force for the country; but it is being demonised as a gathering of ‘anti-nationals’. Another BJP leader has said that these protesters will indulge in crimes like rape. This has intensified the prevalent hate.

While there is a general dominance of hate, the likes of Shambhulal Regar and the Jamia shooter do get taken in by the incitement and act out the violence that is constantly hinted at. The deeper issue involved is the prevalence of hate, misconceptions and biases, which have become the part of social thinking.

These misconceptions are undoing the amity between different religious communities which was built during the freedom movement. They are undoing the fraternity which emerged with the process of India as a nation in the making. The processes which brought these communities together broadly drew from Gandhi, Bhagat Singh and Ambedkar. It is these values which need to be rooted again in the society. The communal forces have resorted to false propaganda against the minorities, and that needs to be undone with sincerity.

Combating those foundational misconceptions which create hatred is a massive task which needs to be taken up by the social organisations and political parties which have faith in the Indian Constitution and values of freedom movement. It needs to be done right away as a priority issue in with a focus on cultivating Indian fraternity yet again.

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Ram Puniyani
February 22,2020

This January 2020, it is thirty years since the Kashmiri Pundits’ exodus from the Kashmir valley took place. They had suffered grave injustices, violence and humiliation prior to the migration away from the place of their social and cultural roots in Kashmir Valley. The phenomenon of this exodus had been due to the communalization of militancy in Kashmir in the decade of 1980s. While no ruling Government has applied itself enough to ‘solve’ this uprooting of pundits from their roots, there are communal elements who have been aggressively using ‘what about Kashmiri Pundits?’, every time liberal, human rights defenders talk about the plight of Muslim minority in India. This minority is now facing an overall erosion of their citizenship rights.

Time and over again in the aftermath of communal violence in particular, the human rights groups have been trying to put forward the demands for justice and rehabilitation of the victim minority. Instead of being listened to those particularly from Hindu nationalist combine, as a matter of routine shout back, where were you when Kashmiri Pundits were driven away from the Valley? In a way the tragedy being heaped on one minority is being justified in the name of suffering of Pundits and in the process violence is being normalized. This sounds as if two wrongs make a right, as if the suffering Muslim minority or those who are trying to talk in defense of minority rights have been responsible for the pain of Kashmiri Pundits.

During these three, many political formations have come to power, including BJP, Congress, third front and what have you. To begin with when the exodus took place Kashmir was under President’s rule and V. P. Singh Government was in power at the center. This Government had the external support of BJP at that time. Later BJP led NDA came to power for close to six years from 1998, under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Then from 2014 it is BJP, with Narerda Modi as PM, with BJP brute majority is in power. Other components of NDA are there to enjoy some spoils of power without any say in the policies being pursued by the Government. Modi is having absolute power with Amit Shah occasionally presenting Modi’s viewpoints.

Those blurting, ‘what about Kashmiri Pundits?’ are using it as a mere rhetoric to hide their communal color. The matters of Kashmir are very disturbing and cannot be attributed to be the making of Indian Muslims as it is being projected in an overt and subtle manner. Today, of course the steps taken by the Modi Government, that of abrogation of Article 370, abolition of clause 35 A, downgrading the status of Kashmir from a state to union territory have created a situation where the return of Kashmiri Pundits may have become more difficult, as the local atmosphere is more stifling and the leaders with democratic potential have been slapped with Public Safety Act, where they can be interned for long time without any answerability to the Courts. The internet had been suspended, communication being stifled in an atmosphere where democratic freedoms are curtailed which makes solution of any problem more difficult.

Kashmir has been a vexed issue where the suppression of the clause of autonomy, leading to alienation led to rise of militancy. This was duly supported by Pakistan. The entry of Al Qaeda elements, who having played their role against Russian army in 1980s entered into Kashmir and communalized the situation in Kashmir. The initial Kashmir militancy was on the grounds of Kashmiriyat. Kashmiriyat is not Islam, it is synthesis of teachings of Buddha, values of Vedant and preaching’s of Sufi Islam. The tormenting of Kashmiri Pundits begins with these elements entering Kashmir.

Also the pundits, who have been the integral part of Kashmir Valley, were urged upon by Goodwill mission to stay on, with local Muslims promising to counter the anti Pundit atmosphere. Jagmohan, the Governor, who later became a minister in NDA Government, instead of providing security to the Pundits thought, is fit to provide facilities for their mass migration. He could have intensified counter militancy and protected the vulnerable Pundit community. Why this was not done?

Today, ‘What about Kashmiri Pundits?’ needs to be given a serious thought away from the blame game or using it as a hammer to beat the ‘Muslims of India’ or human rights defenders? The previous NDA regime (2014) had thought of setting up enclosures of Pundits in the Valley. Is that a solution? Solution lies in giving justice to them. There is a need for judicial commission to identify the culprits and legal measures to reassure the Pundit community. Will they like to return if the high handed stifling atmosphere, with large number of military being present in the area? The cultural and religious spaces of Pundits need to be revived and Kashmiryat has to be made the base of any reconciliation process.

Surely, the Al Qaeda type elements do not represent the alienation of local Kashmiris, who need to be drawn into the process of dialogue for a peaceful Kashmir, which is the best guarantee for progress in this ex-state, now a Union territory. Communal amity, the hallmark of Kashmir cannot be brought in by changing the demographic composition by settling outsiders in the Valley. A true introspection is needed for this troubled area. Democracy is the only path for solving the emigration of Pundits and also of large numbers of Muslims, who also had to leave the valley due to the intimidating militancy and presence of armed forces in large numbers. One recalls Times of India report of 5th February 1992 which states that militants killed 1585 people from January 1990 to October 1992 out of which 982 were Muslims and 218 Hindus.

We have been taking a path where democratic norms are being stifled, and the promises of autonomy which were part of treaty of accession being ignored. Can it solve the problem of Pundits?

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