Demonizing Muslims.
America's Worldwide Witch Hunt
Heading into a "World War III Scenario"?
By Sherwood Ross
Global Research, July 6, 2012
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30514
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.
"Ethnic profiling applies to
travel, the job market, access to education and societal services and
more generally to social status and mobility," he writes in his new
book, "Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War" (Global Research).
"What is now unfolding is a
generalized processs 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."