The
stigmatization of jihad metamorphosed into global paranoia when the Western
orientalists started to make an issue of the growing signs of Islamic awakening
carried by the various Islamic movements in a more systematic and organized
direction. One of the Western intellectuals who were mostly responsible for this
effort was Bernard Lewis. In one of his works, “The Return of Islam” (1964),
Lewis brought to light the existence of the Islamic awakening phenomena. Now,
after Samuel P. Huntington, it is his turn to whip up the term “clash of
civilization”. In two of his latest works, “What Went Wrong? Western Impact and
Middle Eastern Response (2002)” and “The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy
War (2003)”, Lewis was again spreading digressions by highlighting the
historical roots of the Muslim hatred in its contacts with modern Europe, which
was often expressed as acts of terrorism and confirmation of the identity of the
Political Islam which later became fresh blood for the development of the
militant Islamic groups. Here, Lewis claimed that all of those emergences were
injected by the call of jihad.Earlier, Hamilton Gibb managed to virtually “predict” the transformation of the Islamic awakening’s discourse (fikrah) into a movement (harakah) which covers all aspects of a Muslim’s life. It is interesting to quote Gibb's commentary that his book, “The Modern Islamic Thinking” (1930) had to be published two years after the formation of the Ikhwanul Muslimin movement (1928) and the two year period was not enough for Gibb to study the movement. Nonetheless, Gibb still expressed his fear that one day the movement would become a threat to the West.
Gibb understood very well that the maestro of Ikhwanul Muslimin, Hasan al-Banna, had succeeded in pioneering and establishing jihad as the lifeline of the Islamic Ummah for the purpose of winning back its glory. Gibb’s next recommendation was to task the British intelligence service to study the Ikhwanul Muslimin movement.
The paranoia of the West towards jihad obviously could not lessen the existence of Islam, let alone to remove it. On the other hand, like a ”blessing in disguise”, it instead crystallized into becoming stimulants inside the bodies of the Islamic Ummah, to thrust and accelerate themselves forward, such as can be witnessed on the massive leap of intellectual jihad through the ranks of the ideologues, strategic thinkers and productive Muslim reformers.
The West’s pressure on the Islamic movements by isolating them on the pretext of fighting “jihad of terror”, in order to break the cycle of international terrorism, then again motivated the establishment of the "intellectual jihad". Though there had never been any Islamic movement that has had the chance to govern a country and realize its political ambition, the reality shows that the “Islamic world library” is filled with the works of the thinkers from the Islamic movement. Just look at the works of Sayyid Quthb, Muhammad Quthb, Muhammad al-Ghazali, Yusuf al-Qaradhawi, al-Mawdudi, or al-Nadawi. They have become references in the Islamic world. Furthermore, they even became representations of the modern Islamic civilization, from where the West could understand the big flame of the awakening and the dynamism of the Islamic world ideology.
From another angle, the paranoia of the West towards jihad came from the impact of escalation in attacks on the Western interests, especially the United States of America. Hatred and attacks had never produced any peace, it instead produced fear in a much higher magnitude. The history of America shed the lights in this matter. From Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to Vietnam and now Iraq the energies of fear could be seen as relatively increasing when their deposits of “attacks” on others somewhat increased. The more others are attacked, the more others are attacking back.
The same goes with the organizations or networks that are always accused by America and its allies, of carrying out acts of terror, such as Al Qaeda or Hamas in Palestine. They operated their choice of actions in a forceful way in the attempt to balance the American terror a little, which was done systematically in a very big scale. The Hamas’s operations which are done in a forceful way is a form of retaliation, that has to be done when the Zionist forces of Israel are committing arrogance by means of violence which could not be tolerated any longer. “When the disease they afflicted is extreme, it can only be cured by extreme medications.”
They slaughtered the Muslim Palestinian citizens and expelled them out and seized their lands. At the same time, none of the world bodies who called themselves “the administrators of the humanitarian issues” made an apparent move for the Palestinian citizens.
There are a lot of cases which we can list to represent how critical the paranoia suffered by the Americans and its allies are, whose virus are now plaguing the whole world.
From the many depictions of the above cases, it is obvious that America and its allies are using terrorism to confront the danger that they themselves have created in their own minds, which are interpreted by them as terrorism.
However, the
American paranoia was actually not so much of a problem when the effects only
involved themselves. The danger was when they started to impose the virus on all
of the people of the world. What was even more dangerous was when they started
to take control of the mind and mentality of the entire world population, to
direct them to do the job for them in accomplishing their rotten agendas in
order to rule the world through a systematic and comprehensive terrorism.So many historical records could prove the arrogance of America, who only wants to “win it alone”, like what had been written by Gert Krell in “Die Rolle der USA in der Aktuellen Weltkrise” (2002), that the attitude of “wanting to win it alone” is something that is inherent to the superpower country. Not surprising, the jargons that America used in fighting terrorism also had a tinge of arrogance. The irony is, in many things, the jargons are similar to the jargons used by the camps or countries they accused of being behind the acts of terror against the US. For example, the jargon of “a war between good and evil”, “between the innocents and Satan”, “between the civilized and primitives”.
As a hegemonic power, the West (it is America in this regard), of course does not want to be rivalled. It wants to be the sole superpower.
There have been various interventions by the US in their attempt to protect their dominion over the international world, whether it be by expanding the hegemony as much as they could politically, economically or militarily, and to stop the emergence of a regional power that could rival the American supremacy, as well as creating one international arrangement in the image of America as the one and only superpower.
All these facts show that, all these while, the US as the ZIONIST OVER GARMENT does not consider the importance of dialogue with the Islamic world.
Dialogue was only a fashion, as the aspirations of the Islamic world are never heard.
We understand enough that attitude of the West, especially America. LET’S PREPARE OURSELVES FOR A BIG BATTLE...!!!