I have been trying to understand, what is going on in Iraq and ISIS.
What surprised me during the course of this study is, how a band of mercenary of around 20 thousand soldiers, who are just a continuation of the brutal war started by Mr George W Bush through Gods revelations in his dreams, that has seen lives of 2 million lost in a sectarian war between muslims themselves in their line of race, tribes and nationalism has transfixed the entire world into something that is completely different from the core issue of the war : the evils of so called Islamic terrorism and Jihad which has never been the core issue in this war of sects which has so many blurred lines. No doubt, religious aspirations of a certain segment of the population is an issue but that would be only one part of this very complex multifaceted war.
It is not surprising to see, the western war machines calls these fighters Jihadist and are amassing support to stop those Jihadist. If ISIS are Jihadists we can surely call, the entire establishment of west war machine as Crusaders. But, we don’t see them named as such.
The muslim population of the world is now defensive to prove that, they are not Jihadist themselves, for the act of these 20000 soldiers who were actually armed by US themselves, in first place.
What intrigues is to see, how the Kurds majority of them being Sunni Muslims do not turn into a Sunni Muslim issue but ISIS becomes a Sunni Muslim issue. In a war as complex as this, it is strange to see, the issue of how Islam inspires Terrorism has taken centre stage, instead of Arab secretarian division and regional power politics and US invasion in the name of finding weapons of mass destruction and brutal regime of Assad, supported by Russia : which are the root cause of this war .
In this context, the words of Edward Sayeed in is groundbreaking book Orientaism becomes ever more important. He devised a third view point of Orientalism by stating,
“Taking the late eighteenth century as a very roughly defined starting point, Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: “
What Edward Sayeed means is, the western establishment manufactures and approves what issue would take centre stage bypassing the core issues in the ground, which are impacting people and their lives. The practise and study of that was what he termed as Orientalism.
No doubt his views are still relevant.
We can recall, before, we spoke of Islamic terrorism of ISIS, we spoke of suicide bombers, before, we spoke of suicide bombers, we spoke of Munich , before we spoke of Munich we spoke of Arab nationalism, before we spoke of Arab nationalism we spoke about holocaust, but we never spoke about a apartheid and collective punishment of a society, the trauma it went through invasions, war and sectarian violence, the brutalization it got accustomed to, the dear ones they lost and how it impact them and their lack of voice and absence of hope.
End of the day, what we are seeing is imperialism at their supreme art form. It is not science but the art of it. It now manufactures war, put brothers against brothers, makes enemy and friend out of one or other, sells arms to both and keeps its control over the power and again manages the war to a certain level so that, it does not hurt its local economy.
No doubt instead of the all bloodshed and the war that is devastating the region and the people Iraq is still able to supply 4% of the oil of the world and the price of oil is in its lowest since last few years and declining steadily, unlike earlier wars in the region.
It is the pinnacle of achievement for Western Corporate Crusader Market Society.