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Iraq War: Profits Turn to ‘Prophets’
By Yamin Zakaria
03/11/06 "ICH'
-- -- The fundamental principle of a secular society is to keep
religion out of politics; a cardinal ‘sin’ according to the secular
clerics. Surprisingly, like Bush, Blair has now come out of the
closet and claimed that God inspired him to go to war, and he will
be judged by the Almighty on that issue.
Therefore, the unprovoked aggression against Iraq, the consequential
murder of thousands of innocent civilians and destruction of the
entire country was sanctioned by the divine – and this is supposed
to be an example of God’s guidance for the rest of humanity. Also,
as Blair professes to be a Christian,
the Iraq war is also supposed to be in compliance with the
fundamental Christian notion of: turning the other cheek! If that is
so, then I am sure even the most fanatical atheists will be saying:
Halleluiah, it is a miracle! Blair and Bush do sound like a pair of
medieval crusaders; Pope Bush standing with his Cardinal Bishop
Blair.
The obvious implication of claiming divine intervention is that we
should not hold Mr Blair accountable; he is merely a soldier of God
- how convenient, in fact he is a real Bliar! Also note, since
neither Blair nor Bush is a follower of Islam they are not qualified
to earn the title of religious fanatics or extremists or similar
terms; even though they hear voices of God telling them attack
countries with invisible WMDs but visible oil.
This admission of Blair is really amusing. Why did he not say this
from the onset when he was sending his troops? Surely, it would have
boosted the moral of the troops to hear that they are going on a
real crusade, led by Pope Bush and his Cardinal Bishop, Tony Blair.
If Blair was convinced that Iraq war was a divine mission from God,
he should have encouraged his children and other eligible family
members to participate and not deprive them of the potential reward
from God Almighty in participating killing the infidels and
heathens.
Indeed, God Almighty will judge Blair and everyone in the hereafter.
But there is also judgement in this present life, on planet earth.
If religions only advocated judgement in the hereafter, then earth
would be a paradise for criminals. Like a criminal, fundamentalist
Blair is asking everyone to overlook his actions for now and wait
for the divine verdict in the next life. It is a pity for Blair and
Bush that the medieval Catholic doctrine of cleansing ones sins, and
reserving a place in heaven with payments made in gold has been
abolished. They would have been so much at ease knowing that they
could pay off all their sins on earth.
Blair is the leader of a democratic state, where the government is
accountable to the masses that elected him into office. Convenient
then that Blair makes such revelations at the end of his term and
not during an election campaign. He was not elected for his alleged
communication with God Almighty and had he made such a revelation
prior to the election, he would have been dismissed as a religious
nutcase.
Now, both Blair and Bush have claimed to have a hotline to God, they
are the new self-appointed ‘prophets’ of God. Did God Almighty
communicate to them about the urgency to find WMDs, as they could
face danger within 45 minutes? Did God get so desperate for war, He
asked Tony to plagiarise and produce a dodgy dossier to convince
everyone else? If God inspired Tony and Bush to war, then Abu-Ghraib
rapes, torture, executions, Camp-X-Ray incarceration, Fallujah
massacre using phosphorus bombs, and the killing of the 100,000 plus
civilians, must have been part of God’s overall plan, a from of
neo-inquisition perhaps. The orphans and the widows in Iraq would
see the God of Bush and Tony as the one with two horns! Anyway what
happened to that hotline when no WMDs were found in Iraq? Yes, we
know the spin - the devil’s disciples must have stolen the WMDs out
of Iraq into Iran and Syria, yeah right!!!
For decades, the Secular West have been scorning Muslims, for simply
referring to Islam in any shape or form, using pejorative terms like
fanatics, fundamentalists, extremists, militants etc. Even the most
apolitical spiritual Muslim is described in such terms for simply
being devout in his or personal capacity, which ironically conforms
to the secular interpretation of religion. Yet, now their leaders
confess to hearing voices which they are translating as divine
communication. For sure you cannot find religious nuts like this in
Hamas or Al-Qaeda, none from such organisation have made such
fanatical claims.
Just observe how many, or few, secular journalists have the courage,
the intelligence and the integrity, to point out the hypocrisy and
stupidity of a secular leader claiming to be driven by religion.
Surely, they owe an apology to the Muslims for all the slander and
scorning while they missed the real religious fanatics sitting at
their doorsteps. But that would require those journalists to possess
courage, humbleness, honesty instead of cowardice, arrogance and
dishonesty.
If God wanted to remove Saddam, then what did He have in mind for
Iraq, a religious state or a secular state? Bush and Blair are
determined to a state in Iraq that is essentially a secular client
state wrapped with the slogans of democracy. Does God really want a
secular state, where the Prophets and the divine message can be
mocked and trampled on from many directions, using the pretext of
free speech?
Hypocrites, fanatics, extremists, militants are the natural traits
of those who are driven by an insatiable hunger for wealth and
power. Not surprisingly, this is the fundamental doctrine of their
economic system of the free market. Naturally, the real reasons for
going to war were anything but spiritual, be it the rich oil
reserves, preserving the petro-dollar, strengthening Israel etc. all
point to materialistic reasons not the work of God Almighty. As they
are unable to conceal the real reasons, the profit seeking men are
trying to turn themselves into Prophets, hoping that they could hide
their crimes.
Finally, if Bush and Blair can sanction the most important decision
based on their personal religious experiences, and use it as a
pretext for war, then surely the Muslims who see this as a war on
Islam based on their assessment of objective realities, have every
right to respond. If Bush and Blair can push the religion of
"Democracy" and "Freedom" using war as a methodology then Osama bin
Laden can also (if it is his objective) use war as a methodology to
push his idea of an Islamic State (The Caliphate). If the West
wishes to avoid a clash of civilisations then instead of listening
to the whisperings of their idol Gods of Freedom and Democracy, they
should engage in an intellectual debate to establish which claim to
sacredness is more valid, theirs or the Muslims?
Yamin Zakaria (www.iiop.org) - London, UK
Copyright © 2006 by Yamin Zakaria
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