after a short trip to the north-west of iran ( see my
souvenirs), I came back again.
btw, today I encountered with an old kinda different article about analysis of the war on terrorism ; "The Guantanamoization of America"
since this is an storytelling of official tribunes of iran, I think it might be interesting. however I think in some way it is about exaggeration.
author starts with
The ideologues in the U.S. administration claim it is some kind of battle between freedom and democracy on one side and barbarism and despotism on the other, a sort of battle between good and evil.
This comic-book simplification of geopolitics is so patently absurd it hardly warrants a refutation.
but
he continues
Many Muslims believe the so-called war on terrorism is really a war on Islam, but they are only partly right because that is just one aspect of it. The campaign against terrorism is a war on true Islam, despite all the rhetoric coming out of the West about it only being a campaign against certain intolerant fanatics who claim to be Muslims. U.S. President George W. Bush's use of the word crusade may be dismissed as a slip of the tongue, yet the evidence proves that is what he meant. U.S. officials' remarks about revising the school textbooks in the Islamic world by deleting the Islamic teachings they disagree with makes the point loud and clear.
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The war on terrorism is also a war on Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism [???], indigenous religions, and every other traditional religion and spiritual belief system. It is focused on Islam in order to divert the attention of the followers of other religions from the fact that they are being targeted, too. Islam is also the main religion being targeted because the powers that be see it is as more of a threat than the other religions.
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The so-called war on terrorism is a war on Islam, a war on all world religions and cultures, a war on the Third World, a war on the citizens of the West, a war on international law, a war on the U.S. Constitution, and a war on civil liberties and personal freedom. The so-called war on terrorism is itself terrorism. It is a war on the people of the world.
so he links war on terrorism to globalization and ends with
The so-called war on terrorism, hand in hand with globalization, seems to actually be leading to global Guantanamoization. Is this what we want?