Bangalore: If the West Asian Muslim world is so backward, autocratic, lacks human development, stifles critical thought and innovation —the fovourite accusations of the West — the blame squarely rests on the White Western racist rulers who control this region comprising 22 countries with a population of 280 million people, roughly equal to the USA.
This backwardness, suffocation and encouragement given to autocratic rulers violated every sura in the Quran and also pushed down Arabs who once led the world in science and creativity. The common masses of Muslims in this oil-rich region — deliberately kept like blind-folded prisoners — have started boiling from inside and their yearning for revolution finally produced Osama bin Laden.
If anybody wants to witness the most glaring and the blood-curdling example of Western cruelty — American in particular — come to West Asia.
The Zionist occupation of Palestine for the past over 50 years is the most naked expression of White Western racist aggression on the innocent Arabs.
US blessing: Who is encouraging this “terrorist” headhunting in the Muslim world? It is the USA which on one side complains of Muslim backwardness, lack of democracy and at the same time encourages ruthless autocratic rule in the name of tackling terrorism.
Since the Sept.11,2001 “terrorist” attacks on USA, the autocratic Muslim rulers of the region with full US blessing have further bludgeoned their people into submission and total suffocation.
This is the impression we get on reading the “Arab Human Development Report -2002” just published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The UN itself is a stooge of America. If the stooge itself can produce such a damaging report on West Asia then the whole Truth must be much more explosive.
What must come as a shock to the West is while its people are ageing and getting fatter, the region has the world’s largest population of young people. The Muslims in this region are not only young but boiling with anger against the US — increasingly getting attracted to the “Spirit of Islam” that produced Osama bin Laden.
Respect for justice: Not only that. The religion of Islam has made the people of this region give the highest respect to ethics, humanity, morality and justice at a time when the American homes are getting shattered with teen age sex and pregnancy, drug, no respect for elders, crime and broken homes. Pleasure-loving killjoys. Nothing of it has happened in this region though the Western media goes on accusing the Muslims of being anti-woman.
The UNDP report warns that Arabs, who once led the world in science, are dropping even farther behind in scientific research and information technology. This is a damaging comment and the Muslims would do well to take it seriously though once again the blame rests on their Western bosses who control every Muslim country.
What we can make out of the UNDP report is that Islam is not the cause of delaying or impending the Arab world’s advance towards intellectual renaissance but the role played by West, particularly the USA.
