By
Sajjad Shaukat
Some western
psychiatrists believe that many terrorists have had a difficult childhood
producing narcissistic wounds, resulting in “projecting the hated parts of the
self onto the outside world”. According to another similar reasoning, “The
desire to destroy the establishment is driven by the terrorist’s search for
identity.” This dynamic could result in operatives taking unauthorized
vengeance against society for their own reasons unrelated to the group’s cause;
such acts are equivalent to military officers making politically unauthorized
use of their weapons.
In his book, “The
Readiness to Kill and Die: Suicidal Terrorism in the Middle East.” a professor
of psychology, Ariel Merari who provides a comprehensive analysis of suicide
attacks and terrorism by showing how personality characteristics interact with
group pressure and public atmosphere, points out, “Most suicide terrorist
attacks are carried out by sub-state groups, whether organized as terrorist
groups or as self-starter cells…this is because it is easier for groups to
transform susceptible individuals into terrorists by radicalizing, recruiting,
indoctrinating and training them to become suicide bombers and then videotaping
their commitment to martyrdom. Such groups receive their oxygen from religions
and societies that glorify martyrdom into an afterlife in paradise.”
Besides mentioning other
causes of terrorism, a number of writers, authors and researchers agree by
remarking, “Terrorists recruit mentally unbalanced youths to carry out suicide
missions.”
However, some depressed
operatives may follow instructions in carrying out suicide missions. Since the
US started fake global war against terrorism, after the 9/11 tragedy, various
political experts have opined that terrorism comes in a variety of forms such
as religious terrorism, secular terrorism, economic terrorism etc., but its
main aim is to achieve political, economic and social ends.
Bruce Hoffman, in his
book “Inside Terrorism” writes: “For the religious terrorism, violence is the foremost
divine duty executed in direct response to some demand or imperative…the
secular terrorist sense leads to a sanctioning of limitless violence against a
virtually open-ended category of targets.”
Besides, in various
countries, including America, laws have been enforced to cope with the problem
of terrorism. For example, in case of Pakistan, almost all the political
parties unanimously had agreed on a draft of legislative measures—the 20 points
National Action Plan—the bill as 22nd (Constitutional) Amendment was enforced
soon after its approval from the parliament. Now, individuals will be
punished in accordance with the National Action Plan which includes countering
hate speech and extremist material, choking financing for terrorists and terrorist
organizations, taking effective steps against religious persecution, ban on
glorification of terrorism and terrorists organization through print and
electronic media, measures against abuse of internet and social media for
terrorism, dealing firmly with sectarian terrorists and so on.
Judging in these terms,
the character of the Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has
emerged as a political terrorist.
In order to win the
presidential race of the Republican Party, Trump had started exaggerating the
threat of Islamophobia by manipulating various terror attacks in the US and
Europe.
Trump manipulated the
terror attacks which occurred in Paris, Brussels, San Bernardino,
Orlando, Nice and Munich which were, in fact, false flag operations, conducted
by Israeli Mossad and CIA who were playing the double game by using the
terrorists of the Islamic State (Also known as Daesh, ISIS, ISIL) in this
respect, while, some incidents were not linked to ISIS, but were the
result of self-radicalization of the individuals.
Donald Trump used each
terror assault and the shooting at San Bernardino, California in fueling
anti-Muslim racialism in America and to get the sympathies of a majority of the
ordinary Americans and those of Europe, who did not have much time to go into
depth-analysis and have been misguided by his emotional speeches, statements
and false hopes. The more he exploited the threat of Islamic militants, the
more popularity he got among general masses of America, who have been impressed
by his stereotypes. After the incident at San Bernardino, which resulted in the
deaths of 14 persons by a Muslim couple, Donald Trump had called for a ban on
Muslims, entering the United States.
The Washington Post in
an article, under the caption, “Trump’s reckless, dangerous Islamophobia helps
the Islamic State”, wrote on June 13, 2016, “Trump’s standards, his comments
about the Orlando shooting have been reckless and self-serving.
They are also dangerous for the country…the strongest remaining force
that propels the Islamic State is the Islamophobia of Trump and his European
counterparts, argue senior intelligence strategists for the U.S.-led coalition.
Inflammatory, xenophobic statements about Muslims reinforce the jihadists’
claims that they are Muslim knights fighting against an intolerant West. Trump
unwittingly gives them precisely the role they dream about.”
In this regard, Khaled
A. Beydoun pointed out on the Aljazeera multimedia network on March 13,
2016, “The world brand Trump is becoming synonymous with expansion of racism
and incitement of Islamophobia...I think Islam hate us, said Donald
Trump, 24 hours before the Republican presidential debate in Miami...is a call
to his voting base, to further galvanise them around a disdain for Islam that
not only heightens hateful fervour at his rallies, but incites violence on
American blocks and pushes bigots to the ballot box...the statement is rooted
in the very ignorance and hate which made him the darling of bigots and surged
him up the polls...Islamophobia-the suspicion and fear of Islam and its 1.7
billion adherent-is political ideology for Trump.”
Anti-Muslim rhetoric of
Trump could be judged from his several other statements. Trump’s opposition to
Muslim refugees, especially from Syria is very well known. During his
appearance with the National Border Patrol Council’s Green Line radio show on
May 15, 2016, Donald Trump predicted that
refugees with ISIS-funded cell phones will conduct another 9/11-like terrorist
attack in the US. During a GOP debate in December, 2016, he had already
expressed similar thoughts by giving “Americans wake-up call about border
security and to take it seriously,” elaborating that he had “no doubt, the
attackers were already entering the country.” On February 14, 2016, CIA Director
John Brennan warned that ISIS attacks on “U.S. soil is inevitable.”
However, these warnings were exploited by the Israeli Mossad and its
affiliated CIA operatives to target the night club of Orlando, (Florida) so as
to provide Donald Trump with an opportunity to accelerate his campaign against
the Muslims.
After the shooting at
the gay night club in Orlando, he also criticized the US President Obama to
resign, slamming him for having “disgracefully refused to even say the words
“Radical Islam.” Calling on his opponent-candidate Clinton to get out of the
general election race for the same reason, Trump said, “Because our leaders are
weak, I said this was going to happen…we cannot afford.” Trump again remarked
that he would decrease immigration from the Middle East because “since 9/11,
hundreds of migrants and their children have been implicated in terrorism in
the United States.” He, once again, asked for the ban of any Muslims, entering
the US. On June 19, 2016, during his interview with the CBC News, he called for
racial “profiling of Muslims inside the United States to combat terrorism.”He
reiterated his call for more surveillance of mosques and warned that radical
Muslims were trying to take over our children.
Trump continued move
against Muslims. In this context, toughening immigration checks for the French
and Germans in the US, questioning NATO obligations and hinting at an exit from
the World Trade Organization, Donald Trump said on July 24, this year, “We have
problems in Germany and we have problems in France…they have totally been
compromised by deadly Islamist attacks in Nice and last year in Paris…you know
why? It’s their own fault…because they allowed people to come into their
countries.”
Nevertheless, the
incident of shooting at the gay club in Orlando not only exposed this false
flag operation, but also endorsed other false flag terror-attacks in the US and
Europe. In this regard, in an interview with Brazilian TV on June 14, 2016, the
ex-wife of the Orlando shooter Omar Mateen Sitora Yusufiy revealed that
American FBI pressurized her to keep quiet about his homosexuality. While,
Mateen had been dubbed as an Islamic terrorist by the American politicians,
senior officials and commentators, following reports that he had pledged allegiance
to the ISIS, but FBI wanted to downplay the personal and self-hating nature of
the assault. Even, President Obama stated on June 12, 2016, “Federal
authorities had made no definitive judgement on the killer’s motivation, and
whether he was inspired by or directed by Islamic State or other terrorist
groups. Obama clarified by explaining “Orlando shooting was the result of
Mateen’s personal resentment in relation to the gay club.”
In this respect, on June
28, 2016, The New York Times wrote, “The mass shooting at a gay nightclub in
Orlando, Fla., on June 12 included a curious phrase: false flag…the
victims in the shooting? They were “crisis actors” hired to promote the story
as a pretext to impose tighter gun restrictions, the theory goes…the term false
flag relates to naval warfare when a ship would fly a flag that would conceal
its true identity as a way to lure an enemy closer. Today, it is commonly a
shorthand for an act of deception…conspiracy theorists have applied the label
to high-profile attacks, including the shootings by a husband and wife last
year in San Bernardino, Calif, that killed 14…the phrase has even been used to
doubt the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.”
Similarly, the teenager
Ali David Sonboly who killed 9 people in Munich had no connection with the
ISIS. Police investigation revealed that he was “a mentally troubled person”
and police also discovered extremist material, linked to the attack by
Andres Behring Brevik, the white supremacist who murdered 77 persons in Norway
in 2011. And the shooting in the French city of Nice was also a false flag
terror-act, as CIA-Mossad arranged it with help of ISIS which used homegrown
terrorists of France.
However, through these
false flag operations, the US-led Israel achieved its several sinister designs.
Like the drastic aftermath of 9/11 tragedy, rulers and politicians of the
US-led Western countries, especially of Europe, including their media have been
misguiding their general public by creating chauvinism against the Muslims.
They are propagating the so-called threat of Islamophobia. In one way or the
other, the Muslims are being persecuted in the US and other Western countries.
Owing to the irresponsible approach of Western leaders, far right-wing parties
and “Stop Islam” movement in the West, especially in Europe are becoming
popular by largely attracting their people. Besides, Muslims in the continent
are facing severe backlash in form of attacks on them and threats in wake of
anti-Muslim protests. Without caring for human rights, several Muslim refugees
have been expelled from various European countries.
Trump remains silence
about the American homegrown militants who have killed more innocent persons
than those massacred by Al-Qaeda and ISIS inside the US. He has also set aside
the assaults by the extremist Americans on mosques.
In this connection,
Veterans Today quoted a report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and
University of California, Berkeley, released on June 20, 2016 which said, “The
number of recorded incidents in which mosques were targeted jumped to 78 in
2015, the most since the body began tracking them in 2009. There were 20 and 22
such incidents in the previous two years, respectively. The incidents include
verbal threats and physical attacks.”
While, such a
discriminatory policy towards Muslims is already annoying Islamic community in
the multicultural societies of the US-led West and is causing more recruitment
in the militant outfits like Al-Qaeda and especially ISIS, Donald Trump has
left no stone unturned by providing new ammunition to these terrorist groups.
He has, deliberately, taken his anti-Muslim rhetoric to a climax, inspiring the
moderate Muslims to join the extremists or terrorist outfits.
In the recent days,
political character of Donald Trump has become more controversial and dangerous
for America. In his first response to at the Democratic National Convention
from Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim soldier-US Army Capt. Humayun Khan who
was killed in 2004 by a car bomb in Iraq, Trump stated, “He sacrificed nothing
for his country…Khan’s wife, Ghazala Khan, didn’t speak at the convention
because she was forbidden to as a Muslim and questioned whether Khan’s words
were his own.”
Earlier, Khizr Khan
reprimanded Trump for seeking to bar foreign Muslims from entering the country,
saying their son would not have been able to serve under a Trump presidency. He
added, “Go look at the graves of brave patriots who died defending the United
States of America…you will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities. You have
sacrificed nothing and no one.”
Criticizing Trump,
President Barack Obama stated on August 3, 2016, “Republican nominee Donald
Trump is unfit to be president, and questioned why his party still supports
the New York billionaire’s candidacy…the notion that he would attack a
Gold Star family that made such extraordinary sacrifices...means that he is
woefully unprepared to do this job.”
Both the Republicans and
Democrats also condemned Trump’s foolish statement. Taking note of Donald
Trump’s discriminatory speeches and statements, several prominent Republicans,
including some congressman have decided that they will not vote for Trump by
arguing that “he is unfit to serve as president of the United States.”
It is mentionable that
as part of the anti-Muslim approach, and with the support of its Western
allies, American President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama
deliberately created chaos in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria,
including other Islamic countries such as Somalia, Yemen etc. where Washington
was indirectly involved to obtain the illegitimate political and economic
interests of the Zionist Jews and Israel. In case elected, as the US president,
Trump who wants to complete the unfinished agenda of Israel will continue anti-Muslim
policies.
It is of particular
attention that the most important cause behind the suicide attacks is that when
real brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, parents and the fellows of the
Muslims, demanding independence from the Zionist-Israeli-led colonialism, and
neo-imperialism are being killed due to state terrorism, extremism develops in
the concerned persons who feel psychologically compelled to commit violent acts
(or suicide attack) and the political objectives they espouse are only a
rationalization. Psychologically speaking, when a person crosses the stage of
fear towards non-fear in these adverse circumstances, the previous one can
never be achieved and in such a case, even a coward person becomes bold to
commit suicide or any violent acts. A number of suicide missions in Iraq
(During occupation), Afghanistan, Israel and the Indian-held Kashmir verify
this fact. Particularly, some events of women committing suicide also testify
this fact. It is because of these reasons that human lives themselves become
bombs, supplying the requisites of new style deterrence.
Like other religions,
Islam is a religion of peace and Jihad does not permit acts of terrorism or
suicide attacks. But, it is religious fervour, created by Trump against the
Muslims that the militant groups such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS and their affiliated
terror-outfits will further misinterpret the concept of Jihad to motivate the
common Muslims to target Christians, Westerners and especially Americans.
It is worth-mentioning
that in the past, Russia faced a number of terror-acts, conducted by the
Chechen militants, which killed several innocent persons and personnel of the
security forces. In one of the major assault on September 1, 2004, Chechen
terrorists took more than 1200 people—most of them children as hostages in a
Russian school in Beslan, and thus killed over 400 people when Russian special
troops conducted a military operation to free the hostages. However, Russian
President Vladimir Putin and top officials of the Russian government did not
blame all the Muslims for the acts of a few.
Although the
presidential nominee of the Democrats Hillary Clinton is also Israeli
agent, yet her criticism about contributions of election-campaign from Wall
Street backers, email-scandal, drone-scandal etc. have weakened her position.
Hence, Trump best suits the interests of Tel Aviv. Notably, in an interview
with the Daily Mail on May 2, 2016, Trump stated that Israel should continue
construction of illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank.
It is mentionable that
by following the double standards of the US in its worst form, Trump also
intends to favour India, while opposing the nuclear weapons of Pakistan, as he
stated in the recent past. He has brushed aside the ground realities that
Indian Prime Minister Narindra Modi led by the ruling fundamentalist party BJP
has been implementing anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan agenda, while encouraging
Hindutva (Hindu nationalism). Besides Muslims, BJP and other extremist outfits
have also been targeting the Christians and their places of worship. Donald
Trump has further encouraged Hindu terrorism inside India where other religious
minorities are living under perennial fear.
It is notable that in
case, America’s anti-Muslim, pro-Israeli and pro-Indian Donald Trump becomes
American president, he would continue the US phony war on terror by targeting
more Muslims countries, while backing the reactionary policies of some Islamic
countries like Saudi Arabia. Thus, Trump will destabilize the entire Middle
East, including more Muslim countries, especially Pakistan to please the
BJP-led fundamentalist government of India and Israel, as Pakistan is the only
nuclear country in the Muslim world, which irritates India, Zionist Jews and
Israel. Trump will encourage every possible techniques of state terrorism,
being employed by India and Israel in the occupied territories of Kashmir and
Palestine. Notably, there are already governments of the religious extremists
in India and Israel. So, if succeeded in the forthcoming presidential election,
the fundamentalist and impulsive politician Trump will not bother for dangerous
implications of the US flawed strategy—America and its Western allies have
already been entangled in a prolonged war in Afghanistan, and especially double
game of American military and CIA has badly failed in Syria, despite support to
ISIS, Al-Qaeda (Al-Nusra Front), and rebel groups who are fighting to oust
Syrian President Assad’s government to obtain the aims of a greater Israel.
With the assistance of Russia and Iran, Syrian and Iraqi forces have
successfully retaken a number of cities which were in control of ISIS, Kurds
and rebel groups.
Besides, if elected, the
presumptive American president Trump promised to stop immigrants from Mexico by
erection of a boundary wall, while calling the Mexican immigrants “criminals”
and “rapists”. Trump is fueling racism between the Muslims and Christians—the
black people and the white people. And if he becomes the US president, he is
likely to move America towards autocracy, while American public is already
protesting against the curtailment of liberty. His racist approach could
cause a civil war in the US.
Trump’s political
character is an amalgamation of the traits of Louis XVI, the king of France,
Prince Metternich, the Austro-Hungarian emperor, Rasputin, Russian
spiritualist, Germany’s rulers William II (Kaiser) and Adolf Hitler who
brought about unrest in their own countries and also devastated Europe through
World War I and World War II. Wavering between fact and skepticism, the
Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump
shares a number of similarities with these famous persons like
ungoverned temper, rashness, self-egoism, unrealistic idealism, lack of
pragmatism, ignorance of ground realities and especially religious prejudice.
At this juncture, the
world has already been dividing on religious lines owing to the flawed policies
and double game of the former President George W. Bush and President Obama. It
will be misfortune of the US and other Western countries, including the whole
world, if Trump becomes American president, as he will take the US, Europe and
the entire world to the era—from 1511 to 1648 when Europe witnessed a prolonged
arena of barbarism, religious bigotry and intolerance, resulting into beastly
violence, and the Treaty of Westphalia was concluded in 1648 in order to
maintain the nation-state system whose basic purpose was to honuor the dignity
of human beings. Even, in the coming months, if more false flag terror attacks
are being arranged by the Mossad and CIA, Trump will again exploit them by
further dividing the international community on religious lines. So, past
scenario of religious wars could be seen before Trump becomes American
president.
Taking cognizance of
Trump’s political follies—terror-hysteria, religious bigotry and racialism
which are well-penetrated in his personality, some writers and researches,
including American politicians call him a “crazy person” and some call him, a
“mad man.”
Returning to our main
discussion and earlier causes of terrorism that terrorists recruit “mentally
unbalanced youths to carry out suicide missions,” we may conclude that Donald
Trump is a political terrorist.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on
international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants,
Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Email:
sajjad_logic_pak@hotmail.com
Courtesy Veterans Today
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