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Teri Larson, the coordinatorof the Oslo process, welcomed the inclination of Muslims of Palestine
towards normalization with the West. One member of the Jewish
delegation in Oslo and Wye River, Ori Speer, mentioned in his book
'The Course (Al-Maseera)': "The scarves started to disappear from the
heads of women, and the dresses started to be shortened from the lower
part, a matter that Larson welcomed, considering it inclined towards
normalization with the West." In fact women would not dare to do that
during the first Intifada before Oslo.
We find also Phyllis Oakley, former
Under-Secretary of State say: "We agree with those who say that the
clash of civilisations cannot be avoided." Madeleine Albright, former
US foreign secretary, said: "We were attacked because of our identity. We
adhere to globalisation and defend democracy, freedom and open society.
This is the essence of America from which we cannot retreat" (Al-Quds
magazine quoting from the translated words of Nathan Charles-
Washington). Paul Kennedy, History professor at the American Yale
University says: "It is difficult to avoid deducing that the danger of
terrorist attacks will not cease. We have not as well realized great success
in preventing the occurrence of these attacks. The genie got out of the
bottle's neck and it carries the spirit of vengeance; and the car bomb has
now become the airplane bomb" (Al-Quds magazine in translated words
of 22.9/2001). The former Jewish president, Hertzog, said before the
Polish parliament in 1992: "The epidemic of Islamic fundamentalism
spreads quickly. Nor does it pose a danger to the Jewish people only;
rather upon all of humanity" (Al-'Arabi magazine number 514).
Shimon
Peres said: "Fundamentalism has become the greatest danger of the age
after the collapse of communism" (Al-'Arabi magazine number 514).
Cyrus Vance, former American foreign secretary, said: "We must be
careful and resolved in dealing with these fanatics whose actions are
impossible to predict" (Al-'Arabi magazine number 514).
The French
cultural encyclopaedia states that Muhammad is: "Anti-Christ,
kidnapper of women, and the greatest enemy to the human intellect."
These and their like explicitly state their enmity to Islam, and their
statements are a clear indication that they practice with their Capitalist
civilisation violent intellectual struggle against the Islamic civilisation.
However, there is another group that attempts to blow ashes in the eyes
and delude Muslims, in order to perpetuate their anaesthetisation and
make them desist from generating change, while they are not less hostile
to Islam and its people. So we find the former American president Clinton say: "Our enemy in the Middle East is extremism, and he rejected
the idea of the clash of civilisations.
Similarly he said that the current
struggle has no relationship with Islam; it is however a struggle against
extremist forces that hide with religion and nationalism. He added saying:
that it contradicts with Islamic teachings and emphasised that Islam is a
powerful force for tolerance and moderation in the world" (Al-'Arabi
magazine number 514).
Louis Mitchell, Belgian foreign secretary, says in
comment upon the above-mentioned statements of Berlusconi: "When
a prime minister of a member state of the European Union speaks with
this logic, this is completely rejected. The view that any civilisation is
better or of more advanced position than other civilisations is considered
as contradicting European values in which we all believe" (above
mentioned study circle of Al-Jazeera). Even Bush Jr. who declared
openly the 'Crusade' and announced it, this did not prevent him from
visiting the Islamic Centre in Washington and describing Islam as a deen
of peace. Similar to him is his partner in this campaign, the British Prime
Minister Blair, who described Islam as being a deen of peace, and he
used as evidence the meaning of the noble ayah:
"Whoever kills a soul for other than a soul or (to spread) mischief in the earth,
it is as if he killed all of mankind" [TMQ Al-Mai’dah: 32]. It is imperative
that Muslims are not beguiled by deceptive words said by the like of
these, for their deeds reveal their deep rooted feelings, not their false
words, which do not fool a Muslim.
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