Heading into a "World War III Scenario"?
By Sherwood Ross
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.
“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.”
