The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 12
Quotations from Sen11011s How forcibly slave labour was extracted from them. The U. S. had the greatest demand for these enslaved Africans who were sold as slaves to the American customers. The population profile of the U. S. today presents a grim reminder of this history of the U. S. in the form of existing generations of Black Americans. So, imagine a nation with such historical record to be clamouring today that it is motivated by its humanity and high morals to come to the help of the weak and restore the land of Kuwait to its people! It is claiming that it is forced to react against cruelty to humans because of its deep sense of "humanity and high moral values". And if it did not intervene - it claims - then humanity would disappear from the face of the earth, and there would not remain any guarantee of peace for any poor and weak country in the world. If such sentiments are genuine, and if America has awakened to a new sense of sublime values - even though much too late - then why not apply these same values at home and relinquish the Red Indian land in their favour and return to your old country which was your ancestral land? If you say that to them, they will reply: What are you talking about? It was "another matter altogether". Have you lost your mind? Obviously, one cannot argue with this 'it was-another-matter' attitude. " (January 11, 1991) "Now, if the people of Iraq are going to be brutalized and punished for the wrong steps taken by President Saddam, then which decent citizen of this world, whether Muslim or not can be happy over this misery? Nobody who loves humanity and Islam can, in any case, be happy over this. But one is shocked to watch on the T. V. , the lazy-rich 12