Remember,
remember 5th of November, it is a day of gun powder and
revolt.1
It is time to overthrow an establishment and to re-establish a new
system. A system which is reflecting wills and consent of people. A
system which is governing according to will of people and not some
handful of individuals who pass laws for their own benefit, and
rulers are holding sharp swords to cause fear among their subjects to
rule a nation. These rulers can hold sharp swords to command a
nation. Eventually, all systems are bonded to decay within and
collapsed. As the system collapses, the fallen structure would bury
the rulers beneath their debris. Today, the West is not going through
internal evolution. It is expanding its wing across Atlantic Ocean.
It is about creating cultural hegemony system that it is the only way
to be. It is the Western values and Eastern values have no merit.
The West begins to publish books under title of the “Clash of
Civilization” and claiming that the West is in danger of Islam.
It is not any different that Plato's “Republic” as some
individuals are making shadow in the cave and others are believing
what they saw. The aim of this paper is to discuss “The Power of
Nightmare” movie and how the West defines terrorism.
This
portion of the paper is discussing the movie “The Power of
Nightmare” as illustrated Qutbi from Egypt traveled to the US
and disliked the Western value and did not want to see Western values
were integrating in Egyptian culture. He called Westerntoxication as
a threat to Egyptian society. He took steps to prevent Western
values to infiltrate in the Egyptian culture. It did not go so well
with Jamal Abdul Nasar as head of state of Egypt. The system placed
him in prison and punished him for what he believed. However, he did
not give-up of his ideas that Western values of liberalism were
corrupt and should not be part of Egyptian values. Eventually, the
system found him guilty of sedition and was executed. Once again,
ideas are bullet proof and his idea was not eradicated. There was
Muslim Brotherhood faction adopted his ideas that the Western
liberalism as a threat to the Egypt’s identity. The Muslims
Brotherhood decided to confront authority in the Egypt and staged
assassination of Sadat. Obviously, the assassins were apprehended by
the system, and faced prison terms or executed for taking part in
assassination of Sadat.
There
was a turning point in the Middle East history. Russia invaded
Afghanistan and created a window of opportunity for Muslim
Brotherhood and individual liked minded to travel to the Afghanistan
and defend a Muslim nation from hands of infidel. The US provided
military and financial support to Muslims in the Afghanistan to fight
a proxy war for the US. It was during time frame Osama Bin Laden
became one figure who fought with Russia.
It was
during 9-11 Osama Bin Laden emerged as a culprit for catastrophe of
9-11. The US system could accused him of 9-11 because of his fierce
speech with regard to the US foreign policy in the Middle East.
This
portion of the paper defines the term terrorism. There are three ways
to define act of terrorism. One is constructive terrorism, two is
benign terror and last is nefarious terror.2
The constructive terror is when a strong nation like the US is able
to launched a military strike on a weak nation or to operate a covert
operation, and causes death and destruction in a nation.3
This act of terrorism would not be deemed as a terrorism. It would be
viewed as an act of heroism. The Vietnam war is a prime example how
the US was killing people in the Vietnam without declaring war on
Vietnamese, and fabricating the whole story that a US naval was
attacked by Vietnamese. The act of benign is when the US is not
involved directly, but the client state is doing the dirty work on
behalf of the US “to consolidate power in an area.”4
The last form of terrorism is nefarious terror when the enemy of the
west engage in act of terrorism5,
as it makes the headline of every media.
The
West is ignoring its own terror machines like “The Project for the
New American Century” published “Rebuilding America's Defenses”
in 1998 with an agenda to topple Iran, Iraq, Libya and Syria's head
of states. Since the US is a powerful state and it is like Alexandra
the Great. It is all good for the US to do whatever it would like to
do, and not be subject of any kind of inquiry for its action.
Therefore,
there is an ideology to inject in public mind that the West is in
danger of Muslims. These terrorist Muslims are posing threat to
Western values. At the same time, there are individuals who oppose
the Western values and are concern about their own identity and would
not take a step against the West. However, the West which is
represented by the US, it would engage in act of terrorism of
constructive or benign and it would be deemed as a heroic act of the
US, and when there is an act of nefarious against the US. It makes
headline of media outlets.
1From
the movie “V for Vendetta.
2Keepers
of the Flame: Canadian Red Toryism: Ron
Dart. PG 26
3Keepers
of the Flame: Canadian Red Toryism: Ron
Dart. PG 26
4Keepers
of the Flame: Canadian Red Toryism: Ron
Dart. PG 26
5Keepers
of the Flame: Canadian Red Toryism: Ron
Dart. PG 27
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