Murder in the Name of Allah — Page 112
Murder in the Name of Allah. When all has been said and done, all debts settled, and the exchange of commodities taken into account, perhaps it would be pertinent to consider the question of who after all is the beneficiary of the hostilities?. We have seen that Islam is condemned as a barbaric religion which upholds terrorism, preaches hatred and intolerance and divides adherents into opposing camps of bloodthirsty foes. This is not surprising. There are fringe benefits to be obtained by those who design, plot, implement and provide the instruments of destruction to the most unfortunate warring factions of the Muslim umma. . Incidentally, the term 'Islamic terrorism' leads to another interesting term which has been coined by the Western media in the last decade: 'Islamic nuclear bomb'. Pakistan is alleged to possess this. Of course, there has to be an Islamic nuclear bomb if there is any such thing as. Islamic terrorism. Maybe some other terms applicable to various modes of war will become attached to the prefix 'Islamic'. Why do we not hear of a Christian nuclear bomb, a Jewish nuclear bomb, a Hindu nuclear bomb, an Apartheid bomb or a Shinto bomb? It is strange that with the possibility of referring to thousands of other 'religions' bombs, the. Western media has chosen only to pick upon, identify and censure the single Islamic bomb, whose very existence is doubtful. . As stated earlier, the real forces at work are not truly and essentially religious in character. Why single out 'Islamic' whenever terrorist forces are at work today in Muslim groups or countries? Those powers responsible for the prolongation of the Iraq-Iran war by ensuring a constant supply of arms cannot escape their responsibility for the immense waste of life and property and the indescribable human suffering that has resulted from it. Whatever their ulterior motives may have been, they will only help Khomeinism to survive longer. Had the warring countries been left alone with their meagre resources, Khomeinism might have started to decline. . Among other things, this war revived and strengthened a nationalist spirit which diverted the attention of the Iranians from internal problems towards the threat of an external enemy. But for the war, the Iranians might have become disillusioned much more rapidly with the overly intolerant and stiff cult of Khomeinism. Within Iran, there is a very strong tendency towards assessing the values of the revolution and judging its pros and cons. Though a major part of the élite has been wiped out, the intellectuals who have survived are bound to reassess 112