The Hypocrisy of Religious Violence (satire)

One root of violence is alienation. When a minority has an opposing view to the majority, that minority may become marginalized and alienated from the masses.

This has happened in nations previously colonized by the former British, Belgian, French, German, and other European empires prior to the post-modern period of history.

Another kind of violence is when a people are placed in prison camps during wartime. This applies to the Jewish Holocaust, the Japanese internment camps in the Americas during World War2, and even the imprisonment of Ukrainians in Canada during the Great War (1914-1918).

In our enlightened times in the post-911 21st Century (the post-modern era), prison camps will be used only as a last resort. Indeed, in Canada this also happened when the BC government moved children of Doukhabours from their homes into the former prison camps which once house the Japanese-Canadians displace from the West Coast of BC.

Furthermore, home-grown terrorists with no ties to Al-Qaeda are fervently Muslim but wholly radicalised due to their sympathies for their Muslim brethren in Gaza, South Lebanon and elsewhere in the world such as the Palestinian Diaspora of the Americas and the European ghettos of Western, Central and Eastern Europe as well as Eastern Eurasia and Central Asia (e.g. Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Turkey and other Muslim enclaves of Eurasia like Kazakhstan), and so willing to turn to violence for purely ideological reasons.

Most non-Muslim people in the West (the Americas, the UK, the Netherlands and other European nations with large Muslim populations) who mistrust the Muslim immigrants are totally ignorant of the Koran (including the Sharias and Hadiths).

A few of them (especially in the US) have even chosen to slander Mohammed and Islam itself, while calling themselves "God-fearing Christians".

What utter religious hypocrisy!

Even Sri Lanka fell into this religious hypocrisy by endorsing Theravada Buddhism as state religion and Sinhalese as state language in 1956. This political act in the mid-20th Century led first to riots and, in the wake of anti-communist fear, finally led to the assassination of the fourth Prime Minister, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, a Sinhalese Anglican Christian, of Sri Lanka in 1959 by a radical Buddhist cleric named Talduwe Somarama. In 1962, Mr. Somarama shed his orange robes and converted to Catholicism before dying as a "martyr" when he was executed in 1962.

However, Somarama was part of a conspiracy headed by Mapitigama Buddharakkitha of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara, for the Kelaniya Temple was historically a hotbed of trouble for Sri Lanka since its founding circa 500 BCE in south-western region near Colombo.

Civil unrest due to oppression by the Sinhalese of the Tamil militants later led to the Hindu militants radicalising when they formed the Tamil Tigers in 1976. After much turmoil over the next seven years, civil war broke out in 1983 and lasted until the Sri Lanka Army assassinated the Tamil Tiger founder, Velupillai Prabhakaran, on May 18, 2009 after over a quarter-century of war.

Violence in the name of God, by Christian, Hindu or Muslim, and even Buddhist militants is religious hypocrisy at its worst. For there is no peace of mind behind any intent to harm others in the name of religion.

This civil war was summed up by Gandhi when he suggested that those who believe that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know religion at all. For religious leaders and politicians have slept in the same bed called warfare since the time of Ashoka.

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Originally posted: November 8, 2009 at 10:36 PM

Libyan Civil War Due to Oil Imperialism (satire)

In retrospect the Libyan Civil War was never a humanitarian crisis. Rather, it was because of oil imperialism that NATO chose to support the rebels.

As well, NATO has consistently been advised by the new Libyan government to let them do what is best for the people.

Hopefully, the government will still implement Gaddafi's proposal to give all Libyans 30,000 Libyan dinars. Though the Libyan oil industry has gone down the tubes since 2011, due to political infighting between the various Libyan clans and Al Qaeda over who controls the oil.

Later, the US embassy attack in Benghazi was due to CIA presence there, and lack of a strong military presence by the US due to prior agreement with the interim Libyan government.

As a result, former Gaddafi munitions were ferried away around this time, possibly to Syrian rebels and al Qaeda forces.

Petraeus' reason for not establishing a high military presence in Libya at the embassy will never be heard, thanks to the cover story that he had an affair with a military intelligence officer in the reserve who wrote a fan-fiction book about him, which is now selling like hotcakes.

Yes, I am saying, America inadvertently let munitions supply the Syrian rebels and al Qaeda supporters.

Syria is related to this oil imperialism as America now wants Iranian oil. It had already acquired Iraqi oil, though it helped lose Libyan oil.

All the work in Afghanistan is but an exercise in bribing Taleban and al Qaeda moderates to help secure oil assets in the aftermath of Arab Spring.

Thank you, Mr Obama for keeping the West safe! :p

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Originally written: December 29, 2011 at 12:15 PM

Africa Oppressed by American Economic Empire

AFRICOM is why Africa consists of mostly 3rd-world nations.

Also all mention of "African peacekeepers" is propaganda. The truth is African troops aid in keeping Africa backwards so that America and its allies can continue to keep African nations poor and underdeveloped by restricting who can invest US dollars in foreign aid in a manner that America approves.

Humanitarian aid is being reduced, in a cruel effort of population control by starvation and manufactured conflict caused by unfair mistreatment of refugees and condoning internal strife in Sudan where Darfur became a contentious problem because of AFRICOM's military-industrial imperialism.

In essence, the US is the new economic empire whose policies in Africa are designed to extract natural resources cheaply, imposing a 21st-century colonialism which will only worsen the risk of civil war, sectarian violence, and impoverishment of Africans for decades to come.

Most conflict therefore are the US government's responsibility, since internal strife in African nations justify moving African troops in to support the corrupt regime in Somalia (run by a Somali-American who used to work in the US Dept. of Transportation), promote sectarian violence in central Africa, and maintain a SNAFU situation in Africa.

Therefore, Africa's problems originally due to previous European colonialism since the 18th century are continued under the US-backed colonialism by the American economic empire.