Orlando: Another round of blame it on Muslims

The shocking incident in Orlando in the early morning hours of June 12 by a US citizen of Afghan origin, named Omer Mateen, that killed some 50 persons and injured many others, has been quickly blamed by the Zionist-controlled western media on Muslims, especially since the victims were a depraved lot, engrossed in the abominable practice of sodomy.

The mentally disordered gunman was quickly gunned down to death by the American security forces, eager to portray it as another terrorist act by a radical Muslim, since his capturing alive and trial in an open court with lawyers, would have revealed that his violent act was not motivated by Islam, neither was he a member of the Takfiri terrorist outfit, which the West likes to call the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), nor was he a political activist. Stay with us for an investigative piece in this regard by Dr. Javed Jameel of India, the author of such books as “Qur’anic Paradigms of Sciences & Society”, and “Muslims Most Civilised, Yet Not Enough.”

Like every act of violence causing death – war, civil war or terrorist related, the Orlando attack that killed more than 50 persons must be condemned by one and all. The attack is one of the mass shootings that recurrently happen in the United States of America. In the year 2016 the number of mass shootings crossed the 400 mark and claimed the life of over more than 1200 persons. The term “mass shooting” applies when there are 3 or more victims. But the Orlando attack was special in many ways. The number of the people killed was more than any such attack in recent history. The target was a club frequented by gays – as the homosexuals are called in morally-loose western society, even though the abominably unnatural act of sodomy is denounced in the Christian Gospel as an unpardonable cardinal sin.

And the fact which makes it really “special” is that the perpetrator was a Muslim. ISIS seems to have scored a propaganda point by claiming that Omar was its man in the US. But all the accounts appearing in the press so far seem to suggest that it was an act of frustration by a man with deranged mentality – and without any affiliation to any political or religious group. And more than anything else, it again raises questions on America’s gun policy, which despite increasingly larger number of mass shootings and President Barak Obama’s high-pitched campaign against it, continues unaltered. When the interests of the market are at stakes, even the President of America cannot do anything.

Like everywhere, political rivals used the opportunity to advance their own agenda. Barack Obama’s short speech called the Orlando attack an “act of terror and an act of hate” and “a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people.” The Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, whose name has already started shaking the nerves of peace-loving people, was quick to take to Twitter after news spread that the assailant in the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was a child of Afghan immigrants and had allegedly “pledged allegiance” to the so-called Islamic State. Trump called for Obama’s resignation when the US president refused to say the words ‘radical Islam' in his condemnation of the attack.
Trump said: “If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore. Because our leaders are weak, I said this was going to happen – and it is only going to get worse.”

Trump went on to assert that his Democrat rival for the US presidency, Mrs Hillary Clinton – who supports resettling 65,000 Syrian refugees in the US – wants to “dramatically increase admissions from the Middle East” and that the US has “no way to screen them, pay for them, or prevent the second generation from radicalising”.

While Trump is free to keep haranguing, what he needs to understand is why Muslims all over the world are angry with the United States. While he fears for the survival of America, he needs to ponder in his silent hours how the US has refused to let Muslim countries survive for several decades. Before counting the American deaths caused by Muslims, he needs to count the Muslim deaths caused by the US. While the number of American deaths, including in the 9/11/2001 Twin-Tower incident of New York, the number of soldiers killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the domestic terrorism, do not cross the ten thousand mark, more than 5 million innocent Muslims have perished in US attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands would not have died in the civil wars in Libya and Syria, if the US had not so assiduously intervened from behind the scene – by its direct and indirect support for Takfiri terrorists.

As far as the domestic terrorism in the United States is concerned, it is a non-Muslim monopoly with Muslims responsible only in about 5 percent of deaths. A report says: “According to this data, there were more Jewish acts of terrorism within the United States than Muslim, that is, 7% versus 6%.  These radical Jews committed acts of terrorism in the name of their religion. These were not terrorists who happened to be Jews; rather, they were extremist Jews who committed acts of terrorism based on their religious passions, just like al-Qa’eda and company. Of the more than 300 American deaths from political violence and mass shootings since 9/11/2001, only a mere 33 have been at the hands of Muslim-Americans, according to the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security.

The Muslim-American suspects or perpetrators in these or other attempted attacks do not fit any demographic profile – only 51 of more than 200, are of Arab ethnicity. In 2012, all but one of the nine so-called Muslim-American terrorism plots uncovered were halted in early stages. That one, an attempted bombing of a Social Security office in Arizona, caused no casualties.

Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, writing for the Triangle Center on Terrorism and National Security, tallies that since 9/11/2001, only 33 Americans have died as a result of acts of violence launched by their Muslim neighbors. But during the same period, 180,000 Americans were murdered for reasons unrelated to terrorism. Kurzman adds that in just the past year, the mass shootings that have captivated US attention killed 66 Americans, that is, twice as many fatalities as from Muslim-American acts of violence over the past 11 years.

Kurzman goes on to say: “Until public opinion starts to recognize the scale of the problem has been lower than we feared, my sense is that public officials are not going to change their policies. Counterterrorism policies have involved surveillance – not just of Muslim-Americans, but of all Americans, and the fear of terrorism has justified intrusions on American privacy and civil liberties all over the internet and other aspects of our lives. I think the implications here are not just for how we treat a religious minority in the US, but also how we treat the rights & liberties of everyone.”

The conclusion is that, Clinton or Trump – whoever succeeds Obama has to ensure total US disengagement in Muslim lands if they have any desire to promote global peace. America needs to learn that the reactions to its violent pushes of its hegemonic policies may become more severe with the passage of time if it does not change course. They need to learn that “terrorism” forms only a tiny segment of the total violence, and almost always it has its roots in the wars by the mighty against the weak.

Like any violence, terrorism cannot be condoned but we have to learn to condemn all forms of violence in proportion to their magnitude. Mere condemnation of “terrorism” and acceptance of wars and exported civil wars will only compound the violence and no one will remain entirely free of its impact.

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