Secretary John Kerry thinks our Democracy Bothers ISIS
A “psychopathic monster”
Right? Wrong?
I agree that ISIS is a “psychopathic monster” as you have stated Secretary John Kerry. But this is not because they are against our Democratic values. On the contrary they are capitalizing on the lapses of these values that we betray from time to time. Yes, it is an inhuman and barbaric body. Notwithstanding what follows, I am sure they need to be eliminated. They are against everybody excepting themselves and those who agree with them. This is entirely because of their perverse mind and draconian and maniacal policies. As I have said earlier It is not that our our Democratic values bother them. Probably they love them because it makes their heinous task easier. They have got their ammunition from events when the West has digressed from these democratic values. It starts centuries in the past with the Imperial and Colonial history of Great Britain and Europe. This was obviously no democracy. It resulted in a lasting scar on the psyche of many nations. It is also responsible for the presence of millions of people from the “slave” nations in the “master” countries today. At the end of the first World War the division of the Middle East among the victors was everything but democratic. It is directly and positively responsible for the utter chaos and mind boggling confusion in that area. And ISIS is one of its off shoots. At the end of second World War there was a successful attempt to carve out a new country for seventeen million people of an Abrahamic Faith. There are perhaps many justifications for this action but democracy is certainly not one of them. At the conception of this movement at the turn of twentieth century, there were merely two percent folks of this Faith in Palestine. It was artificially, forcefully, systematically and diligently but anti-democratically pumped up since then Religion is taboo in the politics of the Western World as a function of democracy. But they supported the creation of a state on strictly religious grounds on the basis of a claim in the Holy Scriptures of seventeen million people of a certain Faith and ignored the Holy Book of about one and half billion people of another Abrahamic Faith. This is any thing but democratic. The new state is now an occupation power. There is no attempt by the Western media and governments to ensure democratic rights for the original people of the land. The government of the country is using all the methods of an imperial power witnessed over the centuries to manage their subjects. To this day, they continue to forcefully grab more territory in the occupied land in open defiance of even their greatest benefactor and protector, USA. The international community, who is responsible for its creation in the first place has given them a free hand. Is this democracy or the lack of it? Our country, US is very conspicuous by ignoring basic democratic values in its relations with the new state. The classical example was the invitation to the Prime Minister to address the Congress in defiance of core democratic protocol. The repeated standing ovations that he got from the members of our esteemed congress reminded me of the huge crowd in the streets of Karachi similarly cheering their leader Altaf Hussein who was calling from London. I could not believe my eyes; it was demeaning, not democratic. In the nuclear field we have one standard for six million people of one Country/Faith and another for seventy eight million of another Country/Faith. In the former case there seems to be an international conspiracy “Hush, do not talk!”; in the latter case aggressive diplomatic efforts to successfully stop it. Do you call this democracy? To stop one from a nuclear dash is very right and laudable. To remain silent for the other is not democratic but unjust and unfair. In short, I totally agree with your assessment, definition and remedy for ISIS. The only point of difference: it is not our democracy but the frequent abandoning of our democratic values that has given the vicious and barbaric minds of ISIS fuel and energy. Cannot conclude without asserting that this is no attempt to suggest even an iota of justification for the depraved, disgusting and barbarians like ISIS.
