The Guantanamoization of America

[DuctapeFatwa]

Many Muslims believe the so-called war on terrorism is really a war on Islam, but they are only partly right because that is just one aspect of it. The campaign against terrorism is a war on true Islam, despite all the rhetoric coming out of the West about it only being a campaign against certain intolerant fanatics who claim to be Muslims. U.S. President George W. Bush’s use of the word crusade may be dismissed as a slip of the tongue, yet the evidence proves that is what he meant. U.S. officials’ remarks about revising the school textbooks in the Islamic world by deleting the Islamic teachings they disagree with makes the point loud and clear.

The war on terrorism is also a war on Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, indigenous religions, and every other traditional religion and spiritual belief system. It is focused on Islam in order to divert the attention of the followers of other religions from the fact that they are being targeted, too. Islam is also the main religion being targeted because the powers that be see it is as more of a threat than the other religions.

Many people in the global South say the war on terrorism is a war on the people of the Third World. The war on terrorism clearly uses rhetoric that is racist against the people of the Third World, and seizing resources of the Third World is obviously part of the plan. Yet, the scope of this phenomenon is even more far-reaching.

The war on terrorism is also a war on the citizens of the Western world in general and a war on the citizens of the United States in particular. It is a war on civil liberties and personal freedom. The U.S. Constitution is a prime target of the so-called war on terrorism because it is a legal document protecting civil liberties and personal freedom. The restrictions on civil liberties and personal freedom in Patriot Act I and Patriot Act II are clearly violations of the U.S. Constitution, yet very few U.S. citizens have protested, either because of their fear of “terrorism” or because of their fear of reprisals from their own government....

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/18/2004&Cat=14&Num=001

It's not too long, written very simply, hope you will click n read all.

[indigobusiness]

1. This is a true threat

It is easy to see where we are headed without real change.

[sweetheart]

2. Very well written

The article captures the endemic flipflop of the bush regime:

Is it necessary to establish a police state to combat terrorism? Or is the so-called war on terrorism being used as a means to establish a police state?


So what is it?

Also his prophetic warning is bone chilling:

Unfortunately, one day U.S. citizens may wake up to find they have become a nation of Niehmollers.

[bryant69]

3. Not sure an editorial in the Tehran times means that much

But taking this on its merits; the question is what do we do about it? The tone of the article is pretty defeatist, doesn't seem like the United States is salvagable at all, and from their perspective, they might be happy to see it go, so long as it left them alone. But what should American Citizens do? Take up arms against the government? Vote? Form underground subversive organizations? What?

I'm not sure I buy this section. " It seems that the Guantanamo prisoners are meant to be an example and a warning. Stay in line or off to Guantanamo you go." Frankly you hear three times the discussion of Guantanamo from the left as compared to official sources. The whole point to a threat is to broadcast what the threat is.

Bryant
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[DuctapeFatwa]

4. accentuate the positive, other glasses may be half full, even if

one is empty

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