AQ stands for Ahmad Quraishi as well as Al Qaeda. This is not sheer coincidence. This man is the mouth piece of the ISI, of the extremist elements of Paki society, of terror groups like the LeT, LeJ, JeM. Not once will a reader find sanity in his writings. His writings reflect innate hatred for Indians, Israelis and the West. This man had once tweeted in support of the massacre of school children by Chechnayan terrorists in Beslan. When this was highlighted, he promptly had the tweet deleted. He may not speak for the saner elements of Pak society who are in a minority, but certainly his articles reflect the fundamentalist mindset of Paki society. Elements like AQ are the products of Islamisation of Paki society - Islamisation which was embarked upon by the sinister Army Chief, late Gen. Zia-ul-Haq. Instead of writing about saving America from the Abyss, he ought to have written how to bring back Pak from the Abyss. Instead of wasting time over the attempted assassination of a Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, he ought to have pondered over the intolerance of Paki society in the aftermath of the assassination of the Punjab Governor, a liberal minded Salman Taseer.
How To Save America From The Abyss
The near assassination of US politician Gabrielle Giffords shows how extremism and violence in America threaten to poison world peace. This is the time to ask America to act. Forget Sudan and Afghanistan. Time to save America.
AHMED QURAISHI
Monday
10 January 2010
Project For Pakistan In 21st Century
WWW.PROJECTPAKISTAN21.ORG
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—“If only Benazir Bhutto could come and talk to us about religious extremism.” No, this is not about Pakistan. This is American columnist Leonard Clark bewailing America’s culture of violence and assassinations.
The near assassination of American Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords by a bullet to the head and the atmosphere of hate created by political and religious extremists underscores how close to the abyss the world’s sole superpower has become and how Washington’s demons threaten to poison world peace in 21st century.
Rep. Giffords was a liberal politician from President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party. She was on the political hit list of US conservatives and extremists. A bullet went through her head without exploding. That is why she is alive although the extent of damage to her brain is not fully revealed yet.
The world must pay close attention to this assassination attempt. This is where American religious extremism and violence mixes with US foreign policy. Some of America’s hawks and warmongers have close links to extremism that haunted Giffords and finally took her life, almost.
Pakistanis are called to pay special attention because this incident helps understand the American-driven mess in their neighborhood, where Washington offers itself as a savior while violence produced by US military and CIA’s secret armies risks throwing the whole region into a tailspin.
American extremism is no longer an internal issue. It is spilling into US foreign policy.
Arizona, where this assassination took place, is the home of American terrorist Timothy McVeigh, the famous Oklahoma bomber. It is home to pastor John Hagee who says “all Muslims are programmed to kill” and so it is fair to kill all Muslims.
Arizona is also home to twice presidential candidate John McCain. He ran for President in 2000 and came close in 2008. McCain has the full support of American religious extremists. Pastor Hagee endorsed McCain for President in 2008. Sen. McCain supports Israeli atrocities in Gaza. When President Obama visited India in November, Sen. McCain made belligerent statements against Pakistan and China, leaving little doubt on his warlike support for grooming India as America’s proxy-soldier in Asia. This is equivalent to sowing the seeds of a future conflict. Analysts predict the American policy of pumping up India will lead to a major war in Asia later this century. This seems to be an American goal: to squander China’s progress in a war that would take it back to the Stone Age. Similarly, Pakistan faces American-created destabilization. The US hopes it will succeed in firmly establishing a pro-American proxy government in Islamabad. But if this fails, hawks in Washington are ready to give Pakistan the same treatment as China.
Religious extremism is an American demon than would destabilize the world as American extremists increasingly export their brand abroad. This has distinctly happened in two places: Israel and India. US extremists encouraged Israeli genocide against Palestinians. Now they are encouraging the rise of Hindu extremist groups in India. Last week one of these groups admitted to blowing up a ‘peace train’ carrying Pakistani goodwill visitors to India in 2007. Forty-two Pakistanis were burned alive on Indian soil, with help from Indian military intelligence officers recruited by extremist groups. At the time, America’s largely pro-establishment media gave wide coverage to Indian accusations pinning the blame for the attack on Pakistan’s formidable spy agency, the ISI. But last week, hardly any American news organization covered the fresh revelations about India’s links to Hindu terror groups.
American diplomats in New Delhi routinely turn a blind eye to armed and virulently extremist Hindu groups that receive armed training across India in special camps. Washington happily used some of these Hindu groups to covertly plant terror in neighboring Chinese Tibet in 2008.
US foreign policy, guided by the same religious extremism that strengthens people like John McCain and kills people like Gabrielle Giffords, supports Indian extremism because it serves US interests. CIA’s Kabul station is busy using extremism to create Sunni groups to fight Shia Iran. United States uses extremism to harass Russia in its central Asian backyard and China in Xinjiang.
It is time the world woke up to the threat posed by American religious and political extremism. The bullet to Gabrielle Giffords’ head over the weekend is a wakeup call we should not ignore.
Ahmed Quraishi is a senior fellow at Project For Pakistan In 21st Century. He writes for PakNationalists.com Reach him at aq@paknationalists.com
Ariel says:
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January 12, 2011 at 12:48 pm
What bullshit has been dished out by the author? This is the typical mindset of the Paki Muslim – anti-India, anti-Israel and anti-West. Without batting an eye lid this egoistic idiot only talks about the reprisals and defensive measures taken by civilized countries against barbaric groups created in the name of Islam as terror. According this insane author, Pakis are saints whose peace has been breached by non-Muslims. The fellow should open his eyes and see that civilians of all hues are being killed in Sunni-Shia clashes and other ethnic violence because of the short-sighted policies of their own government and has nothing to do with either India or Israel.
This nut refers to one case of a train bombing in India in which a few Pakis died, forgetting that since 1989, Pakis have been responsible for the killing of countless Indians in India as well as abroad (bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul twice) in the name of jihad (unholy war). Their Army of mohammed (JeM) and Army of the Pure (Impure) (LeT) have carried out numerous attacks inside India including the 26/11 attacks in which nearly 170 innocent persons lost their lives. And after being responsible for terrorism world-wide, here is a Paki who talks about saving America from the Abyss.
The author needs to seriously consider checking into a mental asylum to have his brains (if he has any) examined.
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