I saw this article on the internet today and after reading realized it how the human mind can be directed into anything especially when we are not aware the message that are being conveyed to us, but rather nodded our heads and saying
right, that's true or it is possible. As we know how today's technology plays a major role for information given in the media to globally and we know who controls them and the purpose behind their agenda. But something are hidden for the bright minds and those who are aware the information they're receiving it. Do you know all along what's being conveyed to you through media and have you ever thought about double checking it whether they are accurate or groundless? And how many of us ever did a little research to ensure the occurrence of what we have been given through the media. As one says a mind is a terrible thing to waste just if we do not use for its purpose that God created for it. Because the myth and the facts come from those who purport to know more than the rest of us. If you haven't already know a war was staged since the revolution of technology especially the media for the average person, in order to corrupt their mind and poured every little possible propaganda that are sellable. Then the average Joe starts to defend the propagandist hidden agenda without ensuring what they are defending.
The media myth of a global Islamic conspiracy never got much traction in America before 2001 because the minority Muslim American population simply did not seem like much of a threat, because Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States are loyal U.S. allies, and because Americans generally have a positive attitude toward wealthy investors.
" Qutb would have prioritised the struggle of Egyptian Muslims to transform Egypt into a virtuous Islamic state, while Azzam argued that every individual Muslim had an obligation to come to the aid of oppressed Muslims everywhere, whether they are Afghan, Kosovar, Bosnian, Thai, Filipino or Chechen " After 9/11 pro-Israel propagandists exploited public ignorance and created a nightmarish fantasy of Al Qaeda in order to put the US and allies into conflict with the entire Islamic world. What is Al Qaeda? What do they believe? What do they actually do?
Osama bin Laden first used the term “Al Qaeda” in an interview in 1998, probably in reference to a 1988 article written by Palestinian activist Abdullah Azzam entitled “Al Qa‘ida Al Sulba” (the Solid Foundation). In it, Azzam elaborates upon the ideas of the Egyptian scholar Sayed Qutb to explain modern jihadi principles. Qutb, author of Social Justice in Islam, is viewed as the founder of modern Arab-Islamic political religious thought. Qutb is comparable to John Locke in Western political development. Both Azzam and Qutb were serious men of exceptional integrity and honour.
While Qutb was visiting the U.S.A. in 1949, he and several friends were turned away from a movie theater because the owner thought they were black. ‘But we’re Egyptians,’ one of the group explained. The owner apologised and offered to let them in, but Qutb refused, galled by the fact that black Egyptians could be admitted, but black Americans could not,” recounts Lawrence Wright in The Looming Tower. Qutb predicted that the struggle between Islam and materialism would define the modern world. He embraced martyrdom in 1966 in rejection of Arab socialist politics.
Azzam similarly rejected secular Palestinian nationalist politics as an impediment to moral virtue. He opposed terrorist attacks on civilians and had strong reservations about ideas like offensive jihad, or preventive war. He also hesitated to designate any Muslim leader as an apostate and preferred to allow God to make such judgments. Inspired by the courage and piety of Afghan Muslims struggling against the Soviets, Azzam reinterpreted Qutb’s concept of individual and collective obligation of Muslims in his fatwa entitled “Defense of the Muslim Lands, the First Obligation after Iman (Faith).” Qutb would have prioritised the struggle of Egyptian Muslims to transform Egypt into a virtuous Islamic state, while Azzam argued that every individual Muslim had an obligation to come to the aid of oppressed Muslims everywhere, whether they are Afghan, Kosovar, Bosnian, Thai, Filipino or Chechen.
John Calvert of Creighton University writes, “This ideology… would soon energise the most significant jihad movement of modern times.”
At Azzam’s call, Arabs from many countries joined America’s fight against Communism in Afghanistan. No Arab jihadi attack was considered terrorism when Azzam led the group, or later when bin Laden ran the group. Because the global Islamic movement overlapped with the goals of the U.S. government, Arab jihadis worked and traveled friction-lessly throughout the world between Asia, Arabia and America. Azzam was assassinated in Pakistan in 1989, but legends of the courageous sacrifices of the noble Arab Afghans energised the whole Islamic world. |
" Al Qaeda has never been and certainly is not today an immensely powerful terror organisation controlling Islamic banks and charities throughout the world " After the Soviets left Afghanistan, bin Laden relocated to Sudan in 1992. At the time he was probably undisputed commander of nothing more than a small group, which became even smaller after he lost practically all his money on Sudan investments. He returned to Afghanistan in 1996, where the younger Afghans, the Taliban welcomed him on account of his reputation as a veteran war hero.
There is no real evidence that bin Laden or Al Qaeda had any connection to the Ugandan and Tanzanian embassy attacks or any of the numerous attacks for which they have been blamed. Pro-Israel propagandists like Daniel Pipes or Matthew Levitt needed an enemy for their war against Muslim influence on American culture more than random explosions in various places needed a central commander. By the time the World Trade Center was destroyed, the Arab fighters surrounding Osama bin Laden were just a dwindling remnant living on past glories of Afghanistan’s struggle against Communism. Al Qaeda has never been and certainly is not today an immensely powerful terror organisation controlling Islamic banks and charities throughout the world.
Al Qaeda maintained training camps in Afghanistan like Camp Faruq, where Muslims could receive basic training just as American Jews go to Israel for military training with the IDF. There they learned to disassemble, clean and reassemble weapons, and got to associate with old warriors, who engaged in great heroism against the Soviets, but did not do much since. Many Al Qaeda trainees went on to serve U.S. interests in Central Asia (e.g. Xinjiang) in the 1990s, but from recent descriptions the camps seem to currently provide a form of adventure tourism with no future enlistment obligations. Although Western media treats Al Qaeda as synonymous with Absolute Evil, much of the world reveres the Arab Afghans as martyr saints. Hundreds of pilgrims visit Kandahar’s Arab cemetery daily, believing that the graves of those massacred in the 2001 U.S. bombing of Afghanistan possess miraculous healing powers.
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