Hillary
Clinton is Spreading Islamist Extremism
By Andre Vltchek
August 26,
2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- If the West in general, and the United States in
particular, left the Arab and Muslim world alone and
in peace, we would most likely never see all those
terrorist attacks, which are rocking the world from
Indonesia to France. There would be no
Mujahedeen and its mutation into al-Qaida; in
Afghanistan or elsewhere. There would be no traces
of the ISIS (or ISIL or I.S. or Daesh or
however you choose to call it), in Syria, Iraq,
Libya or anywhere else.
Part of the
Saudi Royal mafia. They are all hardcore
reactionaries and Washington’s eager
accomplices—like Israel and the rest of the NATO
vassal states— in spreading murderous chaos around
the globe.
And the
super-conservative Wahhabi Islam, that outdated,
freak Saudi mutant, would remain in the religious
schools of the ultra-regressive Kingdom, instead of
gaining ground all over the Southeast Asia, the
Middle East and Africa.
But the
West embarked on a brutal, Machiavellian path: it
decided to destroy socialist Islam – that
(historically) moderate, compassionate and
progressive religion. It smashed once secular Egypt;
it overthrew the government in socialist Iran and
then in near-Communist Indonesia, implanting in all
these places horrifically degenerate and fully
outdated religious concepts. It used extremists to
destroy healthy patriotism and socialism. Like the
Brits in the 19th Century (“You can control people’s
brains, while we will control your natural
resources”), the West embraced Wahhabi teaching,
because it was able to guarantee full obedience,
dictatorial (pro-Western) governance and oppressive
feudalism.
Islam has
been used and abused, manipulated and virtually
stripped of its essence. The process has gone so far
that two leading Iranian scholars, during my visit
last-year to Teheran, declared to me: “In so many
parts of the world, the West created an absolutely
new religion. We don’t recognize it, anymore. It has
nothing to do with Islam.”
Correct.
Like a naughty, spoiled and heartless child, the
West, after destroying the Soviet Union,
painstakingly constructed its new enemy – “militant
Islam” – so it could continue indulging in its
favorite activity, which is perpetual conflict,
endless wars and plunder.
It is as
simple as that.
The
greatest oppressors of the Muslim people, those in
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Indonesia have all been
closely allied to the West. The most terrible
terrorist “Muslim” organizations, from Al-Qaida to
ISIS, have been created, armed and supported by the
West and its cronies.
In Europe
and in the United States, the “fear of terrorists”
is fully exploited by the Western regime. It still
clings to power mainly thanks to such fear implanted
in the brains of ‘ordinary people’.
And what
about the “War on Terror”? Yes, there really is such
war, but the West is not the one who fights it. As
this goes to print, the war against terrorism is
being fought by Russia, Iran, China, Syria,
Hezbollah and their allies!
*****
The West is
still closely collaborating with the terrorists. It
miraculously ‘avoids targeting them’ when ‘fighting
wars against them’; it financially supports some and
trains others. It criticizes and antagonizes those
who are actually fighting the extremist militant
groups.
Extremists
have been unleashed, like Rottweiler fighting dogs,
against almost all progressive governments in the
Middle East, but also against China and Russia.
Extremist Muslims, extremist Christians, even
extremist Buddhists!
In turn,
the politicians in the United States are regularly
supported, financially, by the regimes (including
those of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, etc.) that are
spreading, relentlessly, throughout the world, the
most intolerant and grotesquely violent religious
concepts.
Despite
their essential servility and cowardice, even some
North American mainstream media outlets are now
actively discussing various schemes involving the
financing of the Clinton Foundation by Saudi Arabia
(alongside several leading transnational
corporations and Wall Street’s largest banks).
On its
“Breaking News”, as far back as in 2008, the CNN
reported:
The
donations to the William J. Clinton Foundation
include amounts of $10 million to $25 million
from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation and real estate mogul
Stephen Bing, a personal friend of Clinton’s.
The
Clintons came under intense pressure during
Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic
presidential nomination to release the names of
donors to both the Foundation and to the Clinton
presidential library in Arkansas.
Bill
Clinton agreed to the release of the list after
President-elect Barack Obama nominated Hillary
Clinton to become Secretary of State.
The
governments of Kuwait and Qatar are also on the
list, as is Saudi businessman Nasser Al-Rashid,
who has close ties to the Saudi royal family.
Saudi Sheikh Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi, reputed to
be one of the richest men in the world, is among
the donors as well. Both Saudis contributed in
the $1 million to $5 million range. A group
called Friends of Saudi Arabia and the Dubai
Foundation appear in the same category.
As recently
as on August 20th, 2016, The New York Times
wrote something similar, essentially reconfirming
the validity of the earlier reports, while adding
many more details and adjusting the figures:
The
kingdom of Saudi Arabia donated more than $10
million. Through a foundation, so did the
son-in-law of a former Ukrainian president whose
government was widely criticized for corruption
and the murder of journalists. A
Lebanese-Nigerian developer with vast business
interests contributed as much as $5 million.
For
years the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton
Foundation thrived largely on the generosity of
foreign donors and individuals who gave hundreds
of millions of dollars to the global charity.
But now, as Mrs. Clinton seeks the White House,
the funding of the sprawling philanthropy has
become an Achilles’ heel for her campaign and,
if she is victorious, potentially her
administration as well.
References
to ‘Lebanese-Nigerian developer’ are actually
related to Gilbert Chagouri, the controversial
Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire construction magnate.
Long time
Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin (who spent part of
her childhood in Saudi Arabia) has been an
intermediary between the former Secretary of State
and pro-Saudi interests. She also negotiated
financial support for Ms. Clinton from Mr. Chagouri
and other individuals, organizations and businesses
originating from the Middle East.
The
accusations and evidence keep coming in, from
different media outlets, both left wing and right
wing. On August 1st, 2016, the conservative
Breitbart News stated:
Khizr
Khan, the Muslim Gold Star father that the
mainstream media and former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton have been using to criticize
Donald J. Trump, has deep ties to the government
of Saudi Arabia—and to international Islamist
investors through his own law firm. In addition
to those ties to the wealthy Islamist nation,
Khan also has ties to controversial immigration
programs that wealthy foreigners can use to
essentially buy their way into the United
States—and has deep ties to the “Clinton Cash”
narrative through the Clinton Foundation.
Hillary
Clinton’s dependence on Saudi sponsors has been
strongly influencing her decision to maintain a
foreign policy in the service of Riyadh and support
for various terrorist groups controlled by Saudi
Arabia and Qatar, in and beyond the Middle East
region.
In reality,
she is simply representing ‘continuity’ of an
already existing, deadly trend. The regime has been
‘evolving’ for decades, but especially since the
Ronald Reagan years. Republicans or Democrats: it
truly matters very little. Both parties spread
terror all over the world. True, George W. Bush
invaded Iraq, but people like Bill Clinton are close
friends and supporters of Paul Kagame, the Rwandese
‘butcher of Congo’, with the blood of some 10
million people on his hands. Democrat and
‘moderate’, Bill Clinton, was also responsible for
the criminal bombing and destruction of socialist
Yugoslavia. And so it goes…
But under
Barack Obama’s rule, the last hope for an
independent Middle East and the Arab world has
virtually evaporated. Libya has been destroyed; the
Syrian civil war [Civil
War? — DV. Ed.] was launched from Washington,
London and Paris. Saudis bathed rebellious Yemen in
blood using UK and US produced weapons. Virtually
all ‘Arab Spring revolutions’ were infiltrated and
diverted. And in Bahrain, the Shi’a majority was
literally raped by Saudi Arabia and its own ruthless
rulers, with British advisors standing by.
The US and
Europe has kept selling arms to the Gulf, building
new military bases while supporting the most
appalling and bloodthirsty regimes.
The
‘Obama/(Hilary) Clinton Era’ has greatly ‘improved’
the symbioses of Western imperialism, big business,
and pro-Western fascist regimes worldwide, but
particularly in the Middle East and Africa.
This toxic
embrace has proved fatal to millions of people in
these two parts of the world. Hopes for
self-governance have been ruined. Corpses keep
piling up in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, South Sudan,
Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and
elsewhere.
The West
does not care, as long as it stays in charge of the
‘show’, and for as long as hundreds of billions of
dollars are made by weapons’ producers. Even if
millions are dying, there is still an uninterrupted
flow of raw materials to the West and Japan.
Therefore, it is ‘business as usual’. ‘Un-people’
and their lives are worth nothing.
*****
At one
point, Russia, Iran, China and others have said
“enough is enough; let’s fight against the true
terrorists! Let’s fight ISIS and other bigots! Let’s
give hand to the independence-minded,
socially-oriented patriots”.
This led to
total outrage in Washington, London, and Paris (and
Tokyo). Disobedience and rebellion against the
global (Western) order could not be tolerated! It
had to be crushed, even at the cost of a new and
deadly world war.
NATO,
Washington, Europe, Japan, and South Korea all
started a direct confrontation policy against
Russia, China, Iran, North Korea (DPRK) and other
members of the ‘Coalition of Daring’. Brazil, an
important member of BRICS, was recently destroyed by
the extreme-right coup supported by the West.
Even the
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, in
his rare moments of sanity, is clearly aware of the
danger. He does not wish to confront Russia. He is
obviously not willing to sacrifice tens of millions
of human lives for some grotesque dreams of total
world domination by market fundamentalism backed by
the white (or Western) supremacist dogmas.
But Trump’s
moments of sanity are defined as ‘madness’ by the
mainstream propaganda. Not surprisingly! As was
correctly stated by the great Indian thinker,
Arundhati Roy, some several years ago: “now war is
called peace and black is called white”.
*****
The Clinton
campaign has gone into overdrive. It attempts to
distract attention from its own funding scandals, by
accusing Donald Trump’s aides of receiving financing
from abroad. Trump is now described as ‘Russia’s
agent’.
This game –
it is all self-serving: nothing to do with the
interests of the world, or even the interests of the
common ‘American people’.
For as long
as the general political trend of the West does not
radically change, or for as long as the West is not
stopped by outside forces, perpetual wars will
continue. Monstrous genocides in Africa, the
destruction of entire states and regions in the
Middle East, all this could easily spread to other
parts of the Planet.
It is clear
now that if provoked and confronted, countries like
China, Russia and Iran would not hesitate to fight
back. They also may fight for others – for their
tortured allies.
The Western
implants and buddies, Mujahedeen/Al-Qaida, have
already destroyed Afghanistan and the Soviet Union.
ISIS, another mutant unleashed by the West and its
allies, have been devastating Iraq, Syria, Libya and
now what is left of Afghanistan.
These
‘movements’ have really nothing to do with Islam.
They were manufactured in Washington, Riyadh,
London, and Doha (and most likely even in Tel Aviv),
for several concrete purposes, all of them
thoroughly foul.
They are
making sure to ruin the socialist nature of Islam,
insisting exclusively on the implementation of
outdated fundamentalist interpretations.
*****
Huma
Abedin’s mother, Dr. Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is one
of the founding members of the Muslim Sisterhood,
and chairperson of the “International Islamic
Committee for Woman and Child” (IICWC). She is also
a well known writer and editor based in Saudi
Arabia. Her organization (IICWC) had repeatedly
argued that laws banning female circumcision should
be revoked, as well as laws prohibiting child
marriage and marital rape. During her visit to KSA,
Hillary Clinton spoke at the Islamic college of Dar
El-Hekma (where Dr. Saleha Abedin was a vice-dean)
shoulder-to-shoulder with her favorite aide – Huma.
Was this
just an insignificant episode? Like those millions
of dollars in Saudi Arabian funding for Clinton’s
foundation? Like the US ‘foreign policy’ in the Gulf
and in the Middle East, like spreading Muslim
extremist groups to all corners of the world, from
Africa, the Middle East, to Southeast Asia and even
China? Like unleashing conservative Islam against
socialist Muslim countries?
Too many
‘episodes’! Too much blood… It is time to say what
is by now obvious: “The US establishment is not
fighting ‘Muslim terrorism’ or even ‘extremism’; it
is manufacturing it, and injecting it everywhere.”
The only
real enemy that Washington, London and Paris have,
for decades, even for centuries, is the
anti-colonialist struggle, and the burning desire of
people, worldwide, to terminate the West’s global
dictatorship.
Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker
and investigative journalist. He covered wars and
conflicts in dozens of countries. His latest books
are: “Exposing
Lies Of The Empire”
and “Fighting
Against Western Imperialism”.Discussion
with Noam Chomsky:
On Western Terrorism. Point
of No Return is
his critically acclaimed political novel. Oceania –
a book on Western imperialism in the South
Pacific. His provocative book about Indonesia: “Indonesia
– The Archipelago of Fear”.
Andre is making films for teleSUR and Press TV.
After living for many years in Latin America and
Oceania, Vltchek presently resides and works in East
Asia and the Middle East. He can be reached through
his website
or his
Twitter.
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