The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 83
The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order spell a great danger to the freedom of human conscience. On this occasion a member of the panel, who was a representative from Eastern Europe took a strong exception to his statement. While agreeing with his statements about Islam, the panel member found Mr. Burgis in error regarding Germany and maintained that Germany would pose no danger to anyone. He stressed that he understood the present generation fully and that this was merely a propaganda against them. In fact, it was not merely a matter of propaganda, r_ather it concerns human psychology. The nations who are basically selfish, and where the concept of justice rests on the type of nationality or is based on regional ideology, always keep their concepts of nationalism fluctuating and let them be guided by the expediency of their mutual dealings. But when confronted with other countries, then the Welsh, the Irish or the Scottish all merge and a wider British concept emerges. Similarly in the case of Germany, the Bavarian concept or any other Gennan concepts are sidelined and a wider combined German concept surfaces in which all distinctions between the East German concepts and the West German concepts are vanished as do those of the north and the south. At this point, nationalism gradually transforms into racism. Racism, in the first place, spreads within its geographical boundaries. Then, instead of one nation, two or four nations get together at a common platform against two or four other nations. And when their collective interests clash with those of the rest of the world, the whole national ideology concept transforms into a racial doctrine. Then the confrontation starts between the white and the black and between the red and the yellow. In this process the dark complexioned people, like us, also get entangled into this situation and become victims of one prejudice or another. In such a situation the people of lndo-Pakistan sub-continent, now settled in America come to be looked upon as a separate nationality by the local Blacks and are labelled as colonists. So is the case with the white people. Similar dangers are looming large in the African continent where the Pakistani settlers have a somewhat fairer complexion compared to the locals, so they are also counted as aliens, as if they had gone there from outside to rule over them. In short, these prejudices which, in fact, are a product of a concept of nationalism, ultimately pass into hatred based on skin-colour. 83