Demonizing Muslims: America’s Worldwide Witch Hunt
Global Research, November 07, 2013
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The U.S. has launched a witch hunt
“reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition” to “demonize” Muslims. “While President
Obama may uphold freedom of religion, the U.S. inquisitorial social order has
institutionalized patterns of discrimination, prejudice and xenophobia directed
against Muslims,” writes Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre for
Research on Globalization, Montreal.
“Ethnic profiling applies to travel, the job
market, access to education and societal services and more generally to social
status and mobility,” he writes in his latest book, “Towards
a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War” (Global Research).
“What is now unfolding is a generalized process
of demonization of an entire population group. Muslims are… considered a
potential threat to national security. The threat is said to be ‘much closer to
home’, ‘within your neighborhood’. In other words what is unfolding is an
all-out witch-hunt reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition,” Chossudovsky
writes.
“The arrests, trials and sentences of so-called
‘homegrown terrorists’ (from within America’s Muslim community) on trumped up
charges sustain the legitimacy of the Homeland Security State and its
inquisitorial legal and law enforcement apparatus,” he asserts. Chossudovsky
writes:
“The objective is to sustain the illusion that America is under attack and that Muslims across the land are complicit and supportive of ‘Islamic terrorism’. The demonization of Muslims sustains a global military agenda. Under the American Inquisition, Washington has a self-proclaimed holy mandate to extirpate Islam and ‘spread democracy’ throughout the world.”
Chossudovsky explains, “The ‘Global War on
Terror’ (GWOT) requires going after the perceived terrorists using advanced
weapons systems. It upholds a pre-emptive religious-like crusade against evil,
which serves to obscure the real objectives of military action… Its ultimate
objective, which is never mentioned in press reports, is territorial conquest
and control over strategic resources.”
“Supported by the Western media, a generalized
atmosphere of racism and xenophobia directed against Muslims has unfolded,
particularly in the US and Western Europe, which provides a fake legitimacy to
the U.S. war agenda,” Chossudovsky contends. “The latter is upheld as a ‘Just
War’. The ‘Just War’ theory serves to camouflage the nature of US. war plans,
while providing a human face to the invaders.”
Next Target: Iran
The objective of GWOT, Chossudovsky writes, “is
to instill fear, rouse and harness citizens’ unbending support for the next
stage of America’s ‘long war’, which consists in waging ‘humanitarian’ aerial
attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran, portrayed by the media as endorsing the
terrorists… All terrorist attacks (planned or realized) are reported by the
media as being perpetrated by Muslims.”
“Muslims are demonized, casually identified with ‘Islamic terrorists,’ who are also described as constituting a nuclear threat,”Chossudovsky writes. “In turn, the terrorists are (allegedly) supported by Iran, an Islamic Republic which threatens the ‘civilized world’ with deadly nuclear weapons (which it does not possess). In contrast, America’s ‘humanitarian’ nuclear weapons will be ‘accurate, safe and reliable.’”
“Beyond the process of inquisitorial arrests and
prosecution, an expedient extrajudicial assassination program sanctioned by the
White House has been launched. This program, which outshines the Spanish
Inquisition, allows U.S. special forces to kill citizens and suspected homegrown
terrorists,” he writes.
“Realities are twisted and turned upside down and Iran is being accused of wanting to start World War III. Inherent in U.S. military doctrine, the victims of war are often heralded as the aggressor.”
This global killing machine is sustained by “an
embedded cult of killing and destruction which pervades Hollywood movies, not to
mention the prime-time war and crime TV series on network television. This cult
of killing is endorsed by the CIA and the Pentagon which also support (finance)
Hollywood productions as an instrument of war propaganda,” Chossudovsky
adds.
The Pentagon has unleashed a major propaganda and
public relations campaign with a view to upholding the use of nuclear weapons
for the ‘defense of the American homeland’,” Chossudovsky believes. He says it
is “utterly twisted logic” that nuclear weapons are being presented as a means
to building peace and preventing “collateral damage.”
“The Pentagon has intimated, in this regard, that
the ‘mini-nukes’ (with a yield of less than 5,000 tons) are harmless to
civilians because the explosions ‘take place under ground,’” he writes. Yet each
of these ‘mini-nukes’, nonetheless, constitutes — in terms of explosion and
potential radioactive fallout — between one-third and six times the force of the
atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.”
Calling it “The American Inquisition,” he writes:
“‘A war of religion’ is unfolding, with a view to justifying a global military
crusade. In the inner consciousness of many Americans, the ‘holy crusade’
against Muslims in justified.”
For further information and/or
interviews with Michel Chossudovsky, contact Sherwood Ross Associates, Public
Relations Consultants, Miami, Florida, 305-205-8281, [email protected]
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