THE SECRET OF FALLUJA
Foreign State Support and the Allies
of Terror
APRIL, 5 2004
By Toby Westerman
Copyright 2004 International News Analysis Today
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The savagery directed against U.S. personnel in the
Iraqi city of Falluja is both a challenge and a warning
to the United States and to the world.
The media reported the mob chanting Muslim phrase "Allah
Akbar," God is Great, as it committed its atrocities,
and reported as an aside that Falluja is a stronghold
of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
What is left unsaid, however, is that the Baath Party
is a Socialist political organization which had strong
ties to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and after
the collapse of Communism cooperated closely with the
"new" Russia.
The Socialist Baath Party turned Iraq into one of the
most secular nations in the Middle East, and alienated
many devout Muslims. Saddam began identifying closely
with Islam only when his position deteriorated under
pressure from the United States.
Saddam-era
parade of women soldiers
Source: worldrevolution.org
Cooperation between Islamic fundamentalists and Saddam's
regime grew from a common hatred of the United States,
not from any mutual admiration.
The raw hatred witnessed in Falluja is a vivid and
grotesque example of the union of religious and political
forces enraged at the United States and everything for
which it stands.
America is at war, and Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly
was correct when on a recent television broadcast he
described this conflict as "World War III."
The war the United States faces is not merely a war
against religious fanatics, but fanatics supported by
political ideology.
Some critics contend that America would not be in this
war if the U.S. did not support the state of Israel.
We do not believe that Israel is the fundamental question.
Certainly America must put its own interests first in
foreign policy, but even if Israel did not exist, Muslim
fanatics in Falluja and elsewhere would still be determined
to destroy the United States.
Although America is now one of the main targets for
Islamic wrath, the roots of the fanaticism displayed
in Falluja and elsewhere in Iraq extend back to before
the establishment of the American republic.
In reaction to the decline of Muslim states and the
rise of powerful European nations, a new, puritanical
form of Islam began to grow in importance in the sands
of the Arabian peninsula. In the mid-1700s a new movement
called for a spiritual renewal and the unification of
all Muslims against the Infidel. A local sheik from
the family of Saud supported the movement, the same
family which has dominated for almost two centuries
the nation we call Saudi Arabia.
This Islamic religious movement, called Wahhabism,
provides the theoretical support for much of the Muslim
fanaticism today. It justifies Al Qaeda as well as the
killings in Falluja. The Wahhabism of Saudi Arabia justifies
the use of religious police who hunt down those practicing
Christianity, and ensures that in Saudi Arabia not a
cross is seen, nor a church bell heard.
Wahhabism, however, is willing to form alliances with
the Infidel to further fanatical Muslim interests. In
their wars for autonomy from the Turkish Sultan, Wahhabit
Arab leaders sought the assistance of the leading power
of the era, the British Empire.
The alliance of fanatical Socialist and Muslim in Falluja
points to a wider common cause between those who hate
America in general, and the West in particular.
The secret of Falluja is that fanaticism needs allies,
including foreign allies, those Infidel nations which
share common goals with militant Islam. The most obvious
candidates for this alliance are the nations which consistently
support movements and governments hostile to the U.S.,
as well as the terror networks which threaten the very
survival of the West itself.
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