The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 43
The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order Englishman who was attempting to flee Iraq, was shot and killed at the border. This is one incident, but how about the persistent reign of terror let loose on the people of Lebanon and adjacent territories? And how about Israel's unilateral air-attack on Iraq's nuclear power plants in broad daylight, that resulted in the total destruction of these installations? The Western world has turned a blind eye to all these events and not once pointed an accusatory finger in this regard. Imagine the whole Western media raising a clamour over a single casualty - described as the ultimate act of cruelty - and then look at the thousands of people of all ages, elderly, young and infants, who are helplessly languishing in camps. They are killed mercilessly; the skulls of infants are cracked open with rocks; children are brutally murdered in front of their wailing mothers, and the mothers themselves soon follow their children on the death trail. These horrors of a Lebanese camp are real, but no one raised a voice against it! So the question is whether all this was justice, or was it something else? If your motives are based on justice then you must know that justice calls for equal treatment of everyone. The yardstick of justice remains invariant. The alleged rape and brutal treatment of some white air-hostesses by Iraqi soldiers was also propagandized against Iraq. This caused a great uproar. Yet, in Kashmir, for the past several months, impoverished Muslim men, women and children are being brutalized. Reported instances of rape are so numerous, and the reports of torture so disquieting, that they make my hair stand on end in horror, and it makes my heart tremble that human beings are capable of such beastliness and tyranny. Tell me, which Western news and information media has exposed these crimes to the rest of the world, and which Western countries have condemned India for this? Dozens of such atrocities are being committed daily in the world, but the West has closed its eyes to them; yet an alleged act of brutality in Iraq - which, by the way, was later proven to be no more than a rumour - caused such uproar! But Iraq, too, is not fulfilling the obligations placed by the Islamic principles of justice. Islam does not allow, under any circumstances, to take hostages from among those foreign nationals who are living in your country, with whom you may even be at war. Nor does Islam 43