It’s time to define Islamism as a crime against humanity
Terra Incognita: It’s time to define Islamism as a crime against humanity | JPost | Israel News.
( This article is so true and so important that I implore you to read it. – JW )
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The murderers then proceeded to hunt down non-Muslims from the US, South Africa, Sri Lanka, India, the Philippines, Egypt and Sweden. After a 24-hour siege, 22 of the residents were murdered and many others wounded.
In another instance, on November 27, 2008, in the midst of the Mumbai terror attacks, the perpetrators received a call from their Pakistan-based masters, asking, “How many hostages do you have?” The terrorist responded that they had killed a Belgian hostage but had others.
“I hope there is no Muslim among them.”
“No, none,” replied the killer.
Later the Pakistani handlers called the terrorists at the Oberoi Trident Hotel and spoke to those located on the 10th floor. The intercepted conversation goes as follows: “Kill all the hostages, except the two Muslims, keep your phone switched on so we can hear the gunfire.”
They reply, “We have three foreigners, including women from Singapore and China.”
Then the terrorist can be heard telling the hostages to line up, asking the two Muslims to stand to one side. Gunfire reverberates, followed by cheering from the terrorists.
IT IS interesting how quickly reports of these attacks downplay the guilt of the attackers and filter references to the focus on non-Muslims and the allowing some Muslims to escape the carnage.
In November 2009 Fareed Zakaria at CNN did a special on the Mumbai transcripts. Zakaria claims the men were sent from Pakistan with “instructions simply to kill.” After playing one clip in which any reference to letting Muslims live is absent, he notes that “they were told to go to Mumbai and kill as many people as they could.” Actually they were told to go to Mumbai to kill non-Muslims.
Zakaria emphasizes that the terrorists were poverty-stricken children. “These are peasant boys,” he says. To his credit, he does play a transcript from the terrorist attack at Nariman house, where the Chabad center was targeted. The CNN host mentions the “animus against Jews” but then claims, “in the ’60s and ’70s most Indian Muslims would not even know where Palestine was.”
He compares the actions of the terrorists to “brainwashing… it’s sort of the Manchurian Candidate writ large.” Later in the program the presenter again attempts to emphasize how young the terrorists were “these are peasant boys… these kids seem like teenagers… it [their action] seems almost mercenary.”
Note how often Zakaria stresses that these were “boys” – he calls them “boys” twice, “kids” twice and “teenagers” once.
The only terrorist captured alive, Ajmal Kasab, was 21 at the time of the attacks.
The oldest attacker, Nasir Abu Umar, was 28, while the youngest was 20.
Why the conscious effort to redefine these men as children? Why the conscious decision not to include the part of the transcript including the instructions not to kill Muslims, and to paint the attack as indiscriminate? The real story was that these men set out to kill as many non-Muslims as possible.
The media seeks to hide this facet to foster the narrative of “unity,” yet presenting Muslims and non-Muslims as the victims of terror obscures the genocidal nature of the crime. When the radical, right wing Golden Dawn party gained popularity last year, the media highlighted the “antiimmigrant violence” it was involved in.
There was no downplaying the members as “peasant boys” or obscuring of who the violence was directed at.
THESE THREE examples – Mumbai, Khobar and Nairobi – are only the tip of the iceberg. From southern Thailand, to Mindanao in the Philippines, to Syria and beyond, the Islamist or jihadist mentality leads to the mass killing of either non- Muslims, or sometimes to the sectarian slaughter of Muslims, usually Shi’ites.
Hundreds of Shi’ites are massacred every year in Pakistan by the Taliban, for instance.
In many cases the terrorists separate Shi’ites from non-Shi’ites, usually identifying them by their first names. For instance, on August 17, 2012, it was reported that “gunmen wearing army uniforms checked the identification cards of the passengers, lined up the Shi’ite passengers on the roadside, tied their hands and then opened fire on them.” Sound familiar?
Many over the years have identified Islamism as “Islamo-fascism” and argued that it champions a form of genocide. But it has not sunk in. We don’t prosecute terrorists as war criminals committing crimes against humanity. Instead, we often obfuscate the nature of terrorist attacks, pretending that terrorists are “misguided youth” who “set out to kill as many as possible.”
The genocidal nature of this type of terror is downplayed. The New York Times described the Nairobi perpetrators as “Shabaab militant attackers.” Really? When they killed 78-year-old Ghanian poet Kofi Awooner and Kenyan radio host Ruhila Adatia-Sood, was that part of a “military” operation? The scenes of piles of dead women sprawled on the floor of the mall; is that “militant?”
In a Times article on the anniversary of the Ku Klux Klan bombing of a church in 1963 the perpetrators are not called “militants.” Yet the objectives and methods of the KKK were no different than the Shabaab or Taliban: the killing of specific groups. No one pretends the KKK “set out to kill indiscriminately.”
The KKK is estimated to have killed 4,743 people between 1882 and 1968. The number of primarily sectarian targeted killings in Iraq in 2012 was 4,574.
That’s just Iraq.
Adding up the number of victims from attacks patterned along the lines of the one carried out in Kenya, or the ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims in places such as Egypt and Northern Nigeria, would bring the number up to tens of thousands in the past decade – millions in the past century. This is a “soft” genocide, embodied by the firebombing of a church in Egypt or the shooting of Alawite truck drivers in Syria.
It is time to stop hiding what connects Mumbai to Westgate and Khobar. It is a worldwide campaign of ethnic cleansing and murder, and the world community must define this as a crime against humanity and not just as “terrorism.”
WarSclerotic 
September 24, 2013 at 11:44 AM
” It is a worldwide campaign of ethnic cleansing and murder, and the world community must define this as a crime against humanity and not just as “terrorism.” ”
Actually, it is a war. More and more people are getting it. Crimes against humanity are committed usually during war. And now, what is left is to define who is who in this war. You know, for trying to winning it if we already are in it for more than ten(10) years and we didn’t know. Ok, the bad guys are Al Qaeda – the Sunni sect of the Islam.
They are against the Rest of The World which are: Christians and the Jews. Ah, sorry for that. I almost forgot: they are against the Shiites, too, which form the rival sect of the Islam. In previous comments not only did we speak about this rivalry and what does it mean, but we also have explained here about this war.
Now, let us not to be misunderstood. The fact that the Sunni Al Qaeda is against the Shiites, it doesn’t make the Shiites the ally of the Christians and The Jews. Really not. Ask the jews. They know better.
There will be more terrorist acts. We are calling them acts of war, actually. And, eventually, will be a new 9/11 – God forbid – and not necessary in the US. For example, they can blow up the Eiffel Tower.
Entirely. No kidding. That will be enough for France to go to war, like it was for the US at 9/11.
We hope the relevant people will wake up and start acting accordingly.
And that before their a$$es will be blown up sky high.
September 24, 2013 at 12:02 PM
…I forgot a little detail. You remember those big, almost giant antique statues of Buddha back in the days, in Afghanistan? The Taliban ”historians” made dust of those statues, because the statues were against their faith. And now, get this: The Statue Of Liberty in the US is also against the faith of the Sunni Al Qaeda and Taliban. You got the picture?
September 24, 2013 at 2:43 PM
Also, in Egypt, there was talk of razing the pyramids.
September 24, 2013 at 2:05 PM
Very compelling article – right on. When will we wake up?
September 24, 2013 at 2:57 PM
David Koresh and the Branch Davidians paid the price for doing infinitely less than the Islamists we see today. It’s time we confront the religion as well as the ‘divinely inspired’ killers for Islam. This cannot continue. For the life of me, I do not understand all the ‘coddling’ going on regarding the sect of Islam and it’s misguided people.
As you know, the Catholic Church has an international hierarchy leading all the way up to the Pope who controls church doctrine and the church’s position on things that include the interpretation of the scriptures. As a result, the Church speaks with a loud uniform voice and is accountable for its actions while transgressions are handled in a civilized manner. If Islam is allowed to survive in this world, they must adopt such a system grounded in nonviolence and peace.
….and for Christmas this year, Santa, I want a new bike. 😎
September 24, 2013 at 3:33 PM
A society is morally advanced as its religious system is. The First Council of Nicaea took place in 325, AD. By then, the Christianity was well spread in the Roman Empire and was the official religion.
Lets see where the Islam was in that year. Lets see…Hm..It wasn’t in any place in this world. A..Of course, Muhammad was born in 570 AD, and only in 610, when he was at age 40, he received his revelation from God. Jesus started to preach in the year 30 AD, when he was 30(!). So, no matter from what angle you’ll look at it, there is a religious gap between the Christianity and the Islam, gap of roughly 580 years, between these two important religions. So, in other words, and accordingly with our opening line, the Islam is less ”developed” or ”advanced” than its rival, the Christianity. So are the moral principles of these two societies. While the Christ followers have today a Holy Father where to look, pray and think, the Muhammad followers have no such a thing. The Holy Father, Francis I is preaching love, compassion and peace between the people. The muslims have no such a Father to teach them. In fact – and now, please, pay attention – the muslims have no Father at all. How hard is to grow without a Father ! The Islam is, in fact, orphan and this is, in one phrase, its sad story along the centuries and the tragic consequences to this fact.
September 24, 2013 at 4:49 PM
Islam an orphan…interesting analogy Luis. Yet many orphans without adoption have grown into peaceful and productive adults. How much longer will it take for Islam to ‘mature’ and take its place among the great peaceful religions of the world?
September 24, 2013 at 5:19 PM
It will take a War where 20 millions of them will die, after they had been caused great disasters to the humanity. I’m sorry that I cannot ”lie beautifully” to you.
September 24, 2013 at 6:01 PM
Russia has problems with Islamic terror, as does China and the West, Moderate Muslim nations too. When will we put your differences aside and finally destroy the problem? 🙂
September 24, 2013 at 6:04 PM
Agreed, we are seeing that already with USA and Russia
September 24, 2013 at 11:32 PM
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Islamic_Quotes_Fighting.Islam
September 24, 2013 at 11:32 PM
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Islamic_Quotes_Terrorism.Islam
September 24, 2013 at 11:33 PM
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Islamic_Quotes_War.Islam
September 24, 2013 at 11:33 PM
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Islamic_Quotes_Jihad.Islam
September 24, 2013 at 11:33 PM
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Islamic_Quotes_Martyrs.Islam
September 24, 2013 at 11:34 PM
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Islamic_Quotes_Militants.Islam
September 24, 2013 at 11:34 PM
There is more much more ,
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Islamic_Quotes_Murder.Islam
September 25, 2013 at 1:56 AM
A Russian court has banned the most popular translation of the Quran into Russian, in a move likely to spark strong outrage.
The ‘October’ District Court in the Russian black sea-port city of Novorossiysk ruled that Elmir Kuliev’s ‘Meaning of the holy Quran in Russian language’ is “recognized as extremist” and therefore banned under Russian legislation that prevents the dissemination and possession of material deemed “extremist”. The court cited an ‘expert’ assessment by the Forensic Centre at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (MVD) for the Krasnodar Territory, which found that the book contained:
“…statements in which a person or group of persons (in particular, non-Muslims ) is portrayed negatively on grounds related to a particular religion; …. statements which address talking about the advantages of a single person or group of persons to other people on the grounds of religion (particularly the Muslims over non-Muslims ); … statements containing the positive assessment of hostile action of one group of people against another group of people on the basis of religion, specifically, Muslims towards non-Muslims; …statements of an inciting character, which can be understood as calling for hostile and violent actions by one group of people against another group of people on the basis of religion, in particular the Muslims towards non-Muslims .”
The translation is a 2002 work by Elmir Kuliev (sometimes written as Guliev), Director of the Department of Geoculture at the Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus. The publication is widely available across the internet, including on websites such as QuranSource , where it is described as a definite Russian translation of the Quran. Kuliev is considered to be one of the leading contemporary Muslim philosophers in Russia. He has even received the Medal of the Council of Muftis of Russia.
http://nrnews.ru/57500-.html
translation from
count down to zerotime.com
September 25, 2013 at 11:05 AM
Nice work, Joop. Thanks for that, really.