White Power! - TnT Mirror.com

In Africa, religious violence raging between Christians and Muslims has peaked with blood being shed on both sides for political, tribal, economical and religious reasons, as the colonial inspired nation State of Nigeria unravels before the eyes of it’s citizens.

In Kenya, Muslims are forced into power plays, which leaves them a marginalised, significant minority.

Meanwhile, American special forces are waging a covert war against the independent noble Tuareges of the Saharah, under the pretext of a war on terror and rooting out remnants of al Qaidah.

The Spanish authority is also busy setting up electrical fences to butress Europe, in its colonial enclave on African soil, to keep Africans out of EU countries.

Racist Morocco simply murders them, or leaves them stranded in the desert to face death.

In the midst of this tempest, Iran is resisting being referred to the UN Security Council for possible punitive, economic and political sanctions. In the background, the Bush Adminstration is threatening possibile military action against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure; similar threats have also been made by Israel, a nuclear power in the region.

Now, what has brought us to this state of affairs?

My simple answer to this is White Power!

Europe and its scion, America, have been exercising power in shaping the world of politics and finance in a way which guarantees them a market for their goods and ideas.

This is evident in the root of the conflict among Iran, the EU and USA surrounding the development of nuclear technology for peaceful or military use.

Western powers are distrustful of Iranian’s intentions regarding developing nuclear technology; they are of the view that Iran wants to develop nuclear bombs.

Personally, I do not favour nuclear arms or atomic warfare because of its fearsome indiscriminate power and its harmful effects on humans, animals and the environment.

But, I also understand its military and political signifigance as a deterrent and clout in international affairs.

One only has to look at India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan, all of whom developed nuclear and atomic capibility outside of the international framework.

However, the problem with Iran is that she has signed international agreements, which the Qur’an mandates her to fulfil, since that was the agreement.

Failure to do so will only bring her into international disrepute, morally and Islamically.

Iran should not proceed by stealth to master nuclear fuel cycle technology for the purpose of developing bombs.

If she intends this, then she should publicy withdraw from all previous agreements and then proceed to do whatever she wishes.

America and her allies, stretched as they are, will have major problems opening another war front, for it is well-known that Iran is not Iraq. Any conflict will only strenghten the hand of the current regime and galvanise the people in this current atmosphere, where it is perceived that Islam is indeed under attack from the West, led by America.

But the USA still has the option and capability to launch a pre-emptive strike against major military sites and nuclear facilities, along with political conspiracies, to undermine the current administration of Ahmadinejad.

If it uses that option, we could well witness the economic and political consequences of such an action, which may change and realign power or the emergence of a new ruling state, as Maulana Imran Hosein explains in a penetrating article entitled Will America Attack Iran?

Check his website at www.imranhosein.org

When China acquired atomic armaments, there were similar opposition and sabre-rattling, which she studiously ignored.

The racist, unstated argument by the West is that only White nations have the capacity and responsibility inherent by nature, destiny and history to possess this awesome power harnessed by the atomic bomb and nuclear armaments.

If not, then by what right, divine or human, are they entitled to have atomic capability while denying others that same right?

This will be the rhetorical question on the minds of most Iranians when they form their human chain in protest around Natanz Uranium Enrichment plant in Iran, the most sensitive facilitiy in Iran’s nuclear programme.

Iran, in response, has threatened to restrict its oil supplies in order to force oil prices even higher.

It could also use its influence over militant groups in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Palestine, to create a truly unstable region that will have a destablising effect on the market and oil prices.

For the rest of the world, that is a recipie for confusion and will inflict higher prices on their populations, something western societies do not want at this time of relative prosperity.

Saudi Arabia will not be able to adequately prevent the rise in oil prices as it is also engaged in a minor but bold insurgency from al Qaidah members in Arabia, who are trying to topple the Kingdom.

In a recent video, aired by Arab news agencies, Dr. Ayman Zawahiri, Bin Ladin’s second in command, remarked that western economic, political and military powers are engaged in the biggest theft of the oil resources of the Muslim and Arab world, which must be confronted.

Coming after an attack on one of the largest oil producing facility in Saudi Arabia, this indicates that the oil industry is now considered as a military, economical and political target, which will see financial pressure in the near future.

For us on this idylic isle, we inevitably will be the benificaries, monetarily from the problems facing the world, as we always have, but too shame to admit, and even as we sneer and make crude irreverant jokes like, God is a Trinidadian!

But we better wake up and come to grips with the possibility that what is sweet in goat’s mouth might well be sour in his bam-bam, for we are not immune from being tested as the rest of the people on this planet.