In my last article, I described how Jews were encouraged by Sargon (2334–2279 BC), the great king of Akkad, and how they used his life story for the creation of Moses. I also wrote that even Sargon II (722–705 BC) was inspired by Sargon the Great. I also wrote how Christianity was inspired by old Roman traditions, which in turn were inspired by countries such as Greece, Egypt, Iran, Syria, etc. For example, the essential qualities of Bacchus, the god of wine, were given to Jesus. I also explained how the Bedouin moon god Allah took over the Islamic world. Allah Akbar, which means the moon god Allah, is the greatest. Many Islamic writers will probably try to deny my descriptions but what they cannot deny is that all Islamic scriptures are written down by the Islamic historian Ibn Ishaq (704-767) who does not refer to his sources. An example is that he says Abraha marched to Mecca with an army of elephants to destroy the Kaaba. Abraha was not even alive at this time and it is not possible to feed so many elephants in a desert. Elephants cannot walk and manage in a desert.
In this piece of paper, I will look at Western propaganda. In my previous article, I looked at Islamic propaganda.
Unluckily, brainwashing and suppression are also big in the West. As an example, when the Russian-Ukrainian war broke out, Russian propaganda machines were blocked by Western propaganda machines. Under President Trump (2017–2021), we also saw how his activities were blocked on social media, and unfortunately, only a few, including the German Angela Merkel (2005–2021), did not think it was okay and defended democracy. Later, we also saw how the Canadian-American businessman Elon Musk was financially authorized by giant companies for his statement. This clearly shows how much the internal democracy in a country is threatened by external countries and private individuals who have a lot of money and control over, among other things, social media and freedom of speech. They decide what freedom of speech is and how much one can say. In addition, the freedom of speech is limited by the internal legislation of the country. The war in Ukraine is supported by Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin which spend millions to send aid to Ukraine. These financings are owned by BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street. The war in Ukraine strengthened the arms industry in the United States. The British and Americans were also among the countries that did not want peace between Ukraine and Russia. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Americans disarmed Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus for security reasons to get closer to Russia. They gave all the weapons to the Russians and until the Ukraine war, countries like Germany and France sold weapons to Russia.
The West has always stood for standards and values in the world. This is why the well-known human rights courts exist in the West. This does not mean that Western countries must be democratic because democracy is political, and the countries in the West cannot be punished for inhumane political decisions as long as they respect human rights. The same thing that happened in Russia also happened in England. If someone complained about the war in Ukraine, that person could be punished with prison. In England, anyone who supported the Palestinian resistance movement against Israelis could be punished. The term rewired propaganda is used today both in the Middle East and in Western countries. The invisible way brainwashing takes place is by using words and phrases that have a message behind them. Choosing words and sentences is never random but planned. Let’s look back at the Iranian king, Muhammed Reza Pahlavi (1941–1979). He was already with the USA and helped the Americans in the Vietnam War against communism. At the end of his reign, he was called a dictator. It was not because he was an autocrat, but because he would not sign the oil agreement with the British anymore if oil production in Iran did not double. He of course incarcerates his rival, but that also happened in other countries and is still happening today, where Islamism is called terrorism and is also imprisoned in Western countries(national security). Let’s look at the Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu (1965–1989). He was also called a dictator, but he was not overthrown because he was a dictator and Romania should have democracy. He was overthrown because now globalism should be allowed to buy up Romania. But why didn’t the West do anything against the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco? The illegal wars against Libya and Iraq also have their reasons. It was not because the West wanted to give those countries democracy. It was because of the American hegemony policy and Israeli interests. The war between Hamas and Israel since October 7, 2023, also has its reasons. It is not because Hamas is a terrorist group and must be fought, but because Gaza is rich in gas reserves. We know very well that Israel knew that Hamas spent the money on weapons and allowed money from Qatar to arrive in Gaza. Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians has not stopped the Israeli regime’s plans for further oil and gas survey.Only few European countries like Ireland support Palestine because they also suffered badly from British colonialism (The great famine) This is why European countries stand by Israel because it is about resources and no longer human life. The West proved this well and truly in the last war against Syria. It was not because Bashar al-Assad (2000–) was a dictator, but because it was about oil pipes and resources. This is what is called today’s neo-colonialism.The Arctic conflict, where Europe, the USA and Russia are preparing for a major nuclear war, is also a confirmation of the fight for natural resources and sea routes.
Western populism declared war on the Taliban in Afghanistan but ended up giving Afghanistan back to the Taliban. The Americans themselves had supported the Taliban against communism and had themselves brought them to power. They also cooperated with Iran in the war. It is not the first time that the West has co-operated with authoritarian states. They have also cooperated with Pakistan during the Muhammad cartoons crisis. also with Iraq and Syria in other cases. Western populism has a charge with Islamic countries of wanting an Islamic state, but most Muslim countries want republics. Throughout history, the United States has supported Islamism in the Middle East. How could they suddenly attack Afghanistan to save a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf? The US supported most autocratic regimes in the Middle East to take power. It was because they believed dictatorship and, later, Islam could defeat communism. For example, they wanted to replace the Iranian king with General Teymur Bakhtiar, as they did in Egypt, and they helped Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (1954–1971) to power. The only reason the Americans helped the Middle East economically after World War 2 was because they believed poverty in the Middle East would strengthen communism. Western politicians place all the blame on Islam. They have created a negative image of the Middle East and Middle Eastern culture. I completely agree that Islam helped to prevent development in the Middle East, but it was the West and the United States that powered Islam in the Middle East because of communism. ( I do not want to generalize all Western countries because countries like Denmark and Sweden have not always had the same interests as the British.) Islamic imams played a major role in the fight against communism under the Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq (1951–1953). They also supported British colonialism in Iran for money. There is no doubt that Islam and Illiteracy played a big role in the reduction of the Middle East, but the Western populists forget to look themselves in the mirror. They forget to talk about the American hegemony war in Iraq. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the USA became ownership and wanted to create a world hegemony that was lost in the Middle East and turned into a failure.
The Western and American failure policies created a world on two poles and resulted in the decline of globalism. China and Russia could happily attract many African and Middle Eastern countries to collaborate. Symbiotically non-binding cooperation allows the authoritarian states to continue with their regimes. US foreign policy lost when they didn’t want the Russians to have access to the Persian Gulf. Both Iran and Turkey have good cooperation with the Russians. Turkey has a vote in Europe when the Secretary-General is to be elected. Parties in Europe moved towards populism and changed their core. The fiasco in the Middle East meant that Turkey and Russia used immigration as a weapon against Europe. Populism in the West used nationalism and undemocratic terms like assimilation rather than integration. (Immigration has both positive and negative sides. For example, due to the harsh immigration policy, Japan will lose large parts of its population and workforce in the future. Crime is high among immigrants in Europe, but Europe has a choice. (Dublin Regulation)). The Middle East was moving towards Islamism. The West accused countries in the Middle East of misogyny, but this is not entirely relevant as women’s rights and the right to vote in Iran happened before several European countries such as Switzerland, Portugal, and Liechtenstein. Western perfectionism and their subcultural understanding of the Middle East have contributed to Western populism. The idea that parties and ideologies create democracy is not entirely true. Ideology creates discrimination… Ideology in a system discriminates against a part of the people in favor of others..for example, socialism has discriminatory legislation against capitalism… Nationalism creates discrimination against humanism.. in the old Roman Empire, a part of the people was arbitrarily selected from the corridor to ensure democracy.. these people were not supposed to be in a party and followers of a certain ideology.
Giant technological companies that act across national borders and strengthen authoritarian regimes. In my previous articles, I have described how the British and French created authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. How they created control and the words national minority and majority. They divided the Ottoman Empire among themselves and exclusively Middle Eastern representatives( I don’t put all the blame for the border division on the British and the French as Islamic propagandists do because the truth is more complicated) – How the British strengthened the Kafala system, which was inspired by Islam. All that Western populism and propaganda can come up with is to say that the Middle East is a failure because of Islam and that the Middle East has learned all contemporaneity from us in the West. Let’s go back in time to see where modernity comes from. We know very well that China was the first country in history to move towards industrialism. It happened long before the West. China’s development fell apart after the Mongols broke the Great Wall of China in 1213 and invaded China. We also know that the first university in the world was built by the Persians in the Persian Empire (the Academy of Gondishapur). It was demolished by the Bedouins and the Islamic expansion. Later, during the Fatimid Caliphate (909–1171), a university was built in Egypt as the first in the Islamic world, but before that, something similar already existed under the Abbasid caliphs (748–1258). Bayt al-Hikma (House of Wisdom), which was previously something similar, was created by Greeks, Mesopotamians, Egyptians, and Indians. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (780–850) was the one who created the mathematical algorithm and Latin numbers. Al-Biruni (Alberonius), the father of geodesy, and Ibn Sina (Avicenna) played a major role in Western medical science. Ibn Zakariya Razi purified alcohol. I am not saying that these scientists were not inspired by other scientists, such as Hippocrates and Socrates, who were themselves inspired by others, such as Plato, when it comes to philosophy. Western politicians and populism forgot how much the Arab world contributed to their development in the Renaissance. They forgot how much the Islamic pension system that was taken over by the Persians, Egyptians, and Romans contributed to socialism. Ahl al-Bayt (people of the house) refers to the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. They all received cash benefits and pensions. The Bedouins learned modern systems from the Romans and Persians. The Khalifa (ruler) knew exactly how many horses, cows, men, women, and trees there were in each area, and they had advanced taxation systems. Western populism has tried for decades to show a barbaric subculture of the Middle East, which is not true.
The West divided the world into East and West and created the term sub-culture. Still, the Western populists must accept that the world consists of cultural cooperation between nations, and cultural aggression has no place anymore. Today, several Islamic countries have the strongest passports and currencies in the world and have invested in modernity and large projects. Western populism was no better than Islamic populism. Instead of creating a better understanding of sectarianism and instrumentalism in the Middle East, Western populists chose lies over the truth.
Article Credit: Arvin Niknia, Independent Author
