--- In socialist_pakistan_news@yahoogroups.com, Tarek Fatah
<tarekfatah@...> wrote:
Nasreen,
When Tariq Ali and Qazi Hussain sing from the same hymn book, it
should be distressful to any one who has any understanding of the
Islamist agenda. I have waited seven years for some of my air-
conditioned socialist friends to utter a word against Bin Laden and
his boys and I am still waiting.
The anti-war rallies in London, New York and Toronto have shrunk from
millions to mere hundreds. Why would decent well-meaning ordinary
citizens opposed to their government's war mongering policies come out
to demonstrate when they find the public square dominated by hijabis
and niqabis under Hezbollah and Hamas flags and pictures of the despot
Ahmedinejad, would come from the Left, but in the rabid hatred of all
things Western, I hear that even Chomsky's rally in Lahore was packed
by IJT thugs?
If Chomsky, Ken Livingstone, George Galloway and Tariq Ali are today
the heroes of the pro-Taliban forces and the world-wide network of the
Muslim Brotherhood, then with a heavy heart, I will part company with
such Sharia-Bolsheviks.
This love-affair between the Left in the West and the Muslim
Brotherhood is revolting. I would have thought that the main thrust of
opposition to the Islamist Jihad would be those who stood against
religious totalitarianism, but it seems we have lost our way in
fighting Imperialism and have become used by the very people who
hanged Dr. Najibullah and left his body to rot for days.
Lenin himself once warned about "the need to combat Pan-Islamism and
similar trends," which he said strove "to combine the liberation
movement against European and American imperialism with an attempt to
strengthen the positions of the khans, landowners and mullahs , etc."
Tarek
On 25-Sep-08, at 2:30 AM, Aslam Azhar wrote:
>
> TV channels in Pakistan are debating if this is America's war. Qazi
> Hussain and Ayaz Amir believe it is. Aslam Beg and Akram Zaki are
> saying this is in fact a freedom struggle of the Pukhtuns. Will
> somebody explain if schools being blown up, people being slaughtered
> and kidnapped, music shops and women's shopping centres being
> bombed, women being stoned, elected representatives being killed -
> are these things happening because we are fighting America's war or
> are these part of a freedom struggle? These are attacks against
> moderation, tolerance, diversity and civilization, and the sooner
> this is acknowledged by all the better!
>
> Nasreen
>
> 2008/9/23 Tarek Fatah <tarekfatah@...>
> This is shameful. Tariq Ali apologizing for the Taliban's mass murder?
>
>
> Couldn't he say a word of condemnation against the Taliban and the
> jihadis? This takes Shariah-Bolshevism to new heights. What are we
> going to hear next? That the Jews stayed away from the Marriott?
>
> Tarek
>
>
> On 23-Sep-08, at 10:48 AM, farooq tariq wrote:
>
>>
>> Casualties of another war
>>
>> The Marriott bombing is terrible revenge for the Afghan campaign
>> that has gone so badly wrong
>>
>>
>> Tariq Ali
>> The Guardian
>> Tuesday September 23 2008
>> The deadly blast in Islamabad was a revenge attack for what has
>> been going on over the past few weeks in the badlands of the North-
>> West Frontier. It highlighted the crisis confronting the new
>> government in the wake of intensified US strikes in the tribal
>> areas on the Afghan border.
>> Hellfire missiles, drones, special operation raids inside Pakistan
>> and the resulting deaths of innocents have fuelled Pashtun
>> nationalism. It is this spillage from the war in Afghanistan that
>> is now destabilising Pakistan.
>> The de facto prime minister of the country, an unelected crony of
>> President Zardari and now his chief adviser, Rehman Malik, said,
>> "our enemies don't want to see democracy flourishing in the
>> country". This was rich coming from him, but in reality it has
>> little to do with all that. It is the consequence of a supposedly
>> "good war" in Afghanistan that has now gone badly wrong. The
>> director of US National Intelligence, Michael McConnell, admits as
>> much, saying the Afghan leadership must deal with the "endemic
>> corruption and pervasive poppy cultivation and drug trafficking"
>> that is to blame for the rise of the neo-Taliban.
>> The majority of Pakistanis are opposed to the US presence in the
>> region, viewing it as the most serious threat to peace. Why, then,
>> has the US decided to destabilise a crucial ally? Within Pakistan,
>> some analysts argue this is a carefully coordinated move to weaken
>> the Pakistani state by creating a crisis that extends way beyond
>> the frontier with Afghanistan. Its ultimate aim, they claim, would
>> be the extraction of the Pakistani military's nuclear fangs. If
>> this were the case, it would imply Washington was determined to
>> break up Pakistan, since the country would not survive a disaster
>> on that scale.
>> In my view, however, the expansion of the war relates far more to
>> the Bush administration's disastrous occupation in Afghanistan. It
>> is hardly a secret that President Karzai's regime is becoming more
>> isolated each passing day, as Taliban guerrillas move ever closer
>> to Kabul.
>> When in doubt, escalate the war, is an old imperial motto. The
>> strikes against Pakistan represent - like the decisions of
>> President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, to bomb and then
>> invade Cambodia - a desperate bid to salvage a war that was never
>> good, but has now gone badly wrong.
>> It is true that those resisting the Nato occupation cross the
>> Pakistan-Afghan border with ease. However, the US has often engaged
>> in quiet negotiations with them. Several feelers have been put out
>> to the Taliban in Pakistan, while US intelligence experts regularly
>> check into the Serena hotel in Swat to meet Maulana Fazlullah, a
>> local pro-Taliban leader.
>> Pashtuns in Peshawar, hitherto regarded as secular liberals, told
>> the BBC only last week that they had lost all faith in the west.
>> The decision to violate the country's sovereignty at will had sent
>> them in the direction of the insurgents.
>> While there is much grieving for the Marriott hotel casualties,
>> some ask why the lives of those killed by Predator drones or
>> missile attacks are considered to be of less value. In recent weeks
>> almost 100 innocent people have died in this fashion. No outrage
>> and global media coverage for them.
>> Why was the Marriot targeted? Two explanations have surfaced in the
>> media. The first is that there was a planned dinner for the
>> president and his cabinet there that night, which was cancelled at
>> the last moment.
>> The second, reported in the respected Pakistani English-language
>> newspaper, Dawn, is that "a top secret operation of the US Marines
>> [was] going on inside the Marriott when it was attacked". According
>> to the paper: "Well-equipped security officers from the US embassy
>> were seen on the spot soon after the explosions. However, they left
>> the scene shortly afterwards."
>> The country's largest newspaper, the News, also reported on Sunday
>> that witnesses had seen US embassy steel boxes being carried into
>> the Marriott at night on September 17. According to the paper, the
>> steel boxes were permitted to circumvent security scanners
>> stationed at the hotel entrance.
>> Mumtaz Alam, a member of parliament, witnessed this. He wanted to
>> leave the hotel but, owing to the heavy security, he was not
>> permitted to leave at the time and is threatening to raise the
>> issue in parliament.
>> These may be the motivations for this particular attack, but behind
>> it all is the shadow of an expanding war.
>> · Tariq Ali's latest book is The Duel: Pakistan On the Flight Path
>> of American Power
>> tariqali3@...
>>
>>
>> Farooq Tariq
>> spokesperson
>> Labour Party Pakistan
>> 40-Abbot Road Lahore, Pakistan
>> Tel: 92 42 6315162 Fax: 92 42 6271149 Mobile: 92 300 8411945
>> labour_party@... www.laborpakistan.org www.jeddojuhd.com
>>
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