Neo-conservatism is the ideology that threatens Britain, not Islamism, writes blogger Abdullah Noorrudeen.
In writing about the Rotherham sex scandal in a previous article, it became apparent that there is a common practice amongst the elite and establishment to downplay crimes perpetrated by non-Muslims of Caucasian race. From painting the neocon-inspired, far-right terrorism as “lone-wolf” acts perpetrated by people with psychological issues, to covering up middle-class “white” paedophile networks operating within the government, failing to identify it as perhaps endemic of the white race (as has been done with the Rotherham groomers), the media and politicians consistently downplay the gravity of crimes carried out by those who are not the victim of political expedience architected by the neocon element.
The effect of this is that white criminals in relative terms are seen as victims of circumstances and/or not given the “shock and awe” treatment by the media, whereas crimes by Muslims are magnified as though they are the majority group. The crime is associated to the religious/ethnic minority and draconian legislation ensues to reinforce the narrative for good measure.
Terrorism and foreign policy
The murder of US journalist James Foley resulted in Theresa May and Boris Johnson reinforcing their mainstream Islamophobic extremism, which is deeply rooted in the political establishment. Prime Minister David Cameron decided to add his voice to the neocon choir. When he deflected any blame from the hawkish, neocon-inspired foreign policy of Britain and the West as a cause for the apparent rise in the terror threat. In supporting his absurd claim he made another ridiculous statement, striking a neocon-tuned chord with Tony Blair: the terrorist threat was not created by the Iraq war. In fact, “It existed even before the horrific attacks on 9/11, themselves some time before the war.”
I emphatically agree. Terrorism was Britain’s foreign policy during its colonial invasions of non-white, Muslim populations. Who from amongst the Muslims can forget Britain starving thousands of non-combatant Muslims of the sacred city of Madina that refused to rebel against the Ottoman Caliphate? Or the massacre at Jallian wala bagh? Or the imprisonment and lynching of Ulama (scholars), the “Islamists” of the early 20th century, to instil fear amongst the colonised? This of course would contradict the “white” narrative and therefore would not dawn upon Cameron. In fact, Cameron would probably twist the colonialism as some sort of freedom struggle. No wait, he has done that already.
Those who the West considers “terrorists” have always named foreign policy as the main issue. In a recording attributed to Osama bin Laden, he stated that, “God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the towers but after the situation became unbearable and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, I thought about it.”
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Michael Adebolajo in his own words stated that he was motivated to do what he did “because of foreign policy”.
Foreign policy and most certainly domestic policy affecting the Muslims of Britain are intrinsically connected to serious grievances. To dismiss it as some sort of incidental, “perceived” notion is ignoring the elephant in the room.
Hypocrisy
The carving up of the Ottoman caliphate, the pain felt by Muslims from the wounds inflicted by the British-instigated Arab rebellion (against the Caliphate), the imposition of artificial boundaries based on the Western political construct of nationalism upon a collectivist people who gave preference to their tribes and faith over flags of the Sykes-Picot agreement, and the resultant despotic regimes sprouting from this tragedy who are today friendly with the West which in turn continue to exert influence over the resources of these arbitrary nation states, are all precursors to the precarious predicament erupting in the Middle East.
When domestic policy forces Muslims to adopt “British values”, yet the foreign policy results in criminal investigations of groups linked to a democratically elected government in Egypt at the behest of the Saudi monarchy, which also incidentally finances a dictator (El-Sisi) whose security forces carried out one of the bloodiest massacre of peaceful demonstrators in a single day, then “perceived” grievances become “actualised” grievances.
When government officials including PM Cameron look for military solutions to deal with the situation in Iraq, and the authorities invoke government bodies as weapons of harassment against humanitarian organisations and activists, yet pursues “politically correct” policies towards the Zionist entity’s terrorism in Gaza and remains virtually silent on the issue of British Jews serving in the IDF, then the term “grievance” becomes an understatement.
PM Cameron said that the root cause of the terror threat to the UK (Theresa May admitted there is no intelligence to suggest an attack) is a “poisonous ideology”. In the selective analysis which leads to his conclusions, he identifies “Islamism” as that ideology. Contrarily, after an analysis of the policies being pushed, if there is an ideology wreaking havoc domestically and around the world, it is the Zionist, neoconservative ideology that has been driven by the likes of Douglas Murray, the Henry Jackson Society and other neocons like Michael Gove, William Shawcross, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.
The neoconservative impact has done nothing but continually erode the rights of every single Briton. In protecting “our way of life”, which seems to be the elitist, Eton College, supremacist way of life, Cameron and his neocon crew are destroying everything they claim to stand for.
The hypocritical discourse of democracy and human rights is an intentional ploy of the neoconservative ideology. As the Canadian academic, Shadia Drury, states:
“They [the neocons] really have no use for liberalism and democracy, but they’re conquering the world in the name of liberalism and democracy.”
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