In The Central committee, CPI (Maoist), condemns the publication
of the racist cartoons caricaturing the holy symbol of the Muslim
community - Prophet Mohammed - by the Western media which is nothing
but a sinister design of the imperialists led by George Bush to
create a so-called civilisational clash between what they portray
as “archaic and medieval” Muslim culture and “Western values” that
are supposed to promote democracy.
The publication of the racist cartoons caricaturing Prophet Mohammed,
first by Jyllands-Posten of Denmark, and later by several papers
in the West, is neither accidental nor has any relation to so-called
freedom of speech and free press. It is not just the Right-wing
section of the media and the rulers that have been chanting the
mantra of freedom of speech but even the Liberals and some civil
liberties activists of the West too joined the chorus overlooking
the sinister designs of the imperialists.
The popular fury that is vent out on the streets across the world
by the Muslim masses is not just the result of the cartoons though
it served as a flash point. Imperialism led by the 21st century
Hitler, George Bush, has been demonizing the Muslim symbols; launching
wars of aggression on Islamic countries as in Afghanistan and Iraq;
threatening to invade or destroy Iran, Syria, Libya etc.; and endorsing
every act of terrorism perpetrated by the Israeli Zionist racist
regime on the Palestinians and other Arab countries. The heartrending
agony suffered by the Muslims ever since the brutal campaign unleashed
by the imperialist marauders led by George Bush in the name of a
permanent and global war against terror, using the 9/11 incidents
as a pretext, is indescribable. The savage bombings, indiscriminate
arrests, blood-chilling torture of the detainees, as revealed by
the horrifying photos and videos of Abu Ghraib; the denial of legal
and human rights to Muslim prisoners held without trial for almost
five years by the criminal Bush administration in the concentration
camp in Guantanamo Bay and the terrible conditions prevalent there
as revealed by the latest report of the UN Commission on Human Rights
which recommended its immediate closure; the repeated humiliation
of the Muslim citizens through surveillance and interrogation in
the US and European countries; derogatory acts such as trampling
upon and even urinating upon the Muslim holy book of Koran; the
portrayal of Muslims as villains and barbarians by numerous films,
novels and the Western media; and several such racist acts have
made the Muslims furious and alienated. No wonder, more and more
Muslims are pushed into the fold of religious fundamentalism and
are willingly volunteering to join the so-called terrorists thanks
to the global terror unleashed by George Bush.
Thus it is due to such historical and cultural factors, that the
racist cartoons became the focal point for letting out the anger,
disgust and agony felt by hundreds of millions of Muslims against
the violence, oppression and exploitation perpetrated by the imperialists
and their global corporations in their insatiable thirst for oil,
rubber, diamonds and super profits.
The western media continues to sprinkle salt on the wound by republishing
the controversial racist cartoons of the Danish press in several
newspapers in France, Germany, the US, Australia and so on. The
so-called liberals and advocates of free speech and free press maintain
a criminal silence at the repulsive, repugnant, brutal tortures
inflicted by the mercenaries of Bush, Blair and Co in Abu Ghraib,
Bagram, Guantanamo Bay, and in numerous concentration camps maintained
by the US and its allies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey
and even within the US. Nor are they concerned about the massacres
that are being perpetrated in Falluja, Baghdad, Samara, and so on.
For them, tortures, massacres, rape of women, destruction of towns
and houses by missile attacks, and inhuman economic sanctions causing
deaths of millions of Muslim people, including women and children,
never become issues. There is no outrage, no crying foul, no tears
shed for the victims of such abuse and violence perpetrated by the
world’s so-called democracies. The horrifying, blood-chilling photographs
and videos from Abu Ghraib that would put even a Hitler to shame
draw no protests or condemnation of the perpetrators of these crimes
seated in the White Hose and Downing Street. Why wouldn’t these
self-styled champions of fundamental rights speak of the fundamental
rights of prisoners in the torture chambers of Abu Ghraib and elsewhere?
It is clear that the so-called freedom of speech and press is a
sham and what these hypocrites and frauds, masked as liberals and
democrats, mean is freedom for publishing overtly racist, anti-Muslim,
provocative and derogatory literature while censoring the inhuman,
savage and criminal deeds of imperialism led by butcher Bush.
The ruling regime in Denmark led by the Centre-Right coalition of
Rasmussen, has racist constituents such as the rabidly anti-Islamic
and anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party and the Conservative People’s
Party. Obviously, it has allowed the publication of the cartoons
with malafide intent to make the Muslims the scapegoats for the
ills of Danish society and to tighten the immigration laws to prevent
the flow of more people from the Muslim world into their country.
In fact, Rasmussen’s coalition came to power with the slogan of
tax freeze and strict restrictions on immigration. The racist face
of this supposedly liberal regime in Denmark can also be seen from
the fact that it has denied the Muslims the right to build mosques
in Copenhagen or cemeteries in Denmark. It is with the same intent
of whipping up anti-Muslim passions and thereby divert the people
from the real issues confronting them that the ruling regimes in
other imperialist countries too allowed the republication of the
cartoons.
George Bush, as expected, defended the publication of the cartoons
in the name of free a press. This international terrorist who cares
a damn for international public opinion, rejects the Geneva Convention
as inapplicable to his soldiers found guilty of the worst war crimes
in history, maintains prisoners without trial for years without
end, derives vicarious pleasure as his mercenaries inflict cruel
torture on hapless prisoners, considers the UN Commission’s report
regarding the conditions of 500-odd prisoners in the hell-hole of
Guantanamo Bay as unacceptable, has become a crusa-der of freedom
of expression and free press!!
The CC, CPI(Maoist), calls upon the people of India to fight shoulder
to shoulder with their Muslim brethren against the sinister designs
of the imperialists led by George Bush to whip up racist, anti-Muslim
sentiments, their attempts to portray Islam with terrorism and thereby
achieve their aim of plundering the resources of the Islamic countries
through wars of aggression. It is only by waging uncompromising
war to wipe out the racist imperialist oppressors and plunderers
from the world that genuine democracy, freedom, equality and self-respect
of nations, religions and all communities can be protected.
Azad,
Spokesperson,
Central Committee, CPI(Maoist)
26 February 2006
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