Zak Rashid: Western Governments propaganda vs our narrative 


Ever since the 9/11 occurred Western Governments have used it as a basis to make millions of people latch on to the their narrative and loads of people did therefore believe their narrative. People started believing that the US invasion in Iraq was simply because of terrorists when in reality it was about pilfering oil, I will explain this in more detail amongst many other major stories and accusations.

The questions we must ask ourselves are — why is this happening? Why are Western Governments spreading their propaganda? And why do so many people believe it?

First of all, Western Governments will often spread propaganda to pull the wool over people’s eyes and to make them sheepishly follow the propaganda that they circulate without ever questioning it, this allows the Government to go forth with their own particular agenda.

The reason why so many people believe it is for two reasons. One is because Muslims themselves believe this propaganda which consists of this main phrase “These guys are Muslims, that is why they are doing this.” Although this is true, this is making people lazy and creating a people who are incapable or unwilling to question injustice. The other is that when they see their own Muslim brothers being slaughtered right across the globe the common phrase which they use is “We will pray for them.” By simply saying this phrase it makes people justify their pacifism and incapability to spread a counter narrative through debate, multimedia etc. If the majority of people don’t tell our story — Who will? Our oppressors will of course.

And once these people believe their narrative, anything that Western Governments do or say is believed by the mass of people. For example when Obama said that it is for counter terrorism purposes or when he is attacking many countries such as Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia and others, what he fails to tell you is that it is also killing millions of civilians in the process.

Iraqi /civilians

It was a very clever tactic which Bush employed whilst standing on a podium propagating the message that two radical Muslims destroyed the twin towers, simply because they did not like the freedoms that Americans enjoyed. But did you know that before the 9/11 even happened during 1991-2001 there was a series of operation in Iraq which was labelled the “Desert Fox Operation” this was a series of operations which killed from 100,000-200,000 in the first 42 days of this operation.

Also a day before the 9/11 on September 10th 2001, Vice president to President Clinton, Donald Rumsfeld made a declaration of war on Iraq.

The US government also claim that attacking Iraq was to wipe out the dictator Saddam Hussein; yet they did not have a problem supporting him with millions of dollars worth of chemical gas before the Iran-Iraq war which killed millions of Iraqi civilians. There is also substantial evidence to show that America wanted Iraqi oil.

In 1944, Britain whilst making agreements with America about which oil they were going to take, came to the conclusion that stated that America were going to take Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil.

And supporting a coup to overthrow the previous Qasim government in Iraq for an extremely brutal ba’athist Government, led by Saddam Hussein in 1963 (Saddam Hussein was set up by the CIA). Which was also a great opportunity to steal oil, as Iraq was now instable as you now have the tyrannical leader; Saddam Hussein and also the Kurdish rebels who had to stand up for themselves.

As the Saddam Hussein regime of terrorism was now massacring millions of civilians, the US responded to this by stepping up the military aid/support to Saddam in 1988 causing instability in the nation and a perfect opportunity to steal oil.

Eventually leading up to the most brutal genocide in the 21st century; the Iraq war- despite what think tanks, mainstream media and Western Governments want you to believe, which is the war occurred to take out Saddam Hussein. The truth of the matter is that America did not care when Saddam was killing millions of civilians in Iraq and in fact supported him and there is much evidence of this.

One of the most flawed arguments I believe is the argument of “the only reason why America is in drone countries and supporting dictators is because of global terrorism.” I believe that this is completely false. Due to the fact that by droning countries like Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya etc. and by supporting dictators in Egypt, Iraq and Syria this is in fact creating more terrorists who are uneducated. Obama and his government etc are not stupid; they know what they’re doing. I believe they are doing and did this because they want to sell a message, which is that America is at war with extremism, when in reality it is in war with Islam. Also they want to be able to justify all their wrongdoing by killing millions of civilians. Side note, when Obama says suspected terrorists, he means people over the age of 18 and when the term ‘signature strikes’ is used, it really means people who have a beard.

Another accusation that people make is that there are more Muslim people killing themselves than Western Governments. There is more than what meets the eye here, Think of it this way- pretend you make a criminal who has killed loads of people and you make him the leader of your country, of course he will kill those that oppose him due to the mere fact that he is a criminal. And you arm that criminal with weapons and chemical gas etc. Pretend you also give the terrorists who oppose the certain government arms, weaponry too. That makes the Western government the terrorist.

That has been shown in many instances. For example in Egypt, Obama gave an approximation of 8 billion dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood which was Hosni Mubarak’s terrorist organisation. Now you have a government force that has military weapons and will basically use them on everyone in the country. And you have the other Al Qaeda group that retaliates this force. Just think for a moment, if your own family members were killed and you were uneducated, would you not take up violence as well. Millions of civilians are now caught up the crossfire of the terrorism. Side note most of the dictators in the Middle East were empowered by the US Government including Morsi and Mubarak.

In Yemen the same thing is happening, the US is giving money for Ali Abdullah Saleh to massacre his own people and Al Qaeda member’s retaliation, consequently people are dying. The same thing is happening in Syria at the moment with Bashar Al Assad, Britain is aiding him in arms and America isaiding Al Qaeda rebels in arms therefore causing riots in the country. The list continues.


Mohammed Saleem

Something to consider, everyone was up in arms about the murder of Lee Rigby however did you know that a few months before, a man name Mohammed Saleem was stabbed to death as I will explain. A grandfather of 22 grandchildren was going to a Small Heath mosque had been stabbed not one but four times in the back, his own family members saw him laying in pools of blood. He was 75 years old with arthritis in his legs, an innocent 75 year old. Tell me why the main stream media did not dare discuss about this on the BBC etc. I believe that it is because the main stream media want to portray Muslims as being terrorists, jihadists, extremists etc. It is evident that this is a sign of inequality for many in the UK, I would not even know about this if it weren’t for certain individuals spreading he truth.


In Conclusion i believe that people need to go back in history and research for themselves about their oppression instead of being sheepishly lazy and apologising, saying “these are just certain individuals who do this, we are not all like this.” Do you think President Bush, Clinton and Obama apologised for killing many people across the middles east in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Egypt, Libya and the list continues.

Sheepish Behaviour

THINK FOR YOURSELF

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