Wednesday, July 20, 2005

A Jakarta Post opinion piece on London bombing

The Jakarta Post - After the bombs, London searching for the root cause of terrorism

Contrary to the headline, the above article contains nothing about the "search for the root cause of terrorism", but takes the opportunity to try to paint a moral equivalence between the conduct of the US and al-Qaeda. To quote:

"The aims of both al-Qaeda and some of these Western governments are somehow similar: Both "sides" believe in bombing and wars, both "sides" try to create the impressions that the other is evil and deserves to be destroyed in the name of (ironically) humanity, and both sides are spreading hatred and terror.

Both have used and sacrificed ordinary working class people, to achieve their ambitions, whatever these ambitions are. As Noam Chomsky has stated, George Bush used fear as a tool for his re-election, and had to manufacture another threat to American security to win his Presidency."


Appalling....

1 comment:

Kyai Syuhud Zayadi said...

u make a mistake by comparing al qaeda with western gov. the former a tiny organisation which aint represent muslims whatsoever, while the latter are elected gov. which means whatever atrocities conducted by them obviously represent the spirit and the mood of the people. in another word, if what bush and blair do is wrong, you all are wrong. :)
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