Where is US Going Wrong Against Islam?

For last two decades, whether it is an impression or a reality or just a slip of tongue, is that the United States is at war against Islam, Islamic country or Islamic civilization as a whole and is engaged in doing everything to stop it, destroy it or at least put a check on its spread. For several in the eastern and Islamic countries, it is not just an impression but a reality, while for some others, who are more pragmatic, it is just a war on extremism and there is no such a thing as Crusade. However, the problem is that it is such an elusive war that sometime it poses itself as a modern day Crusade and at other times a simple war against the Islamic culture.

The factors that contribute to spread of this impression that the United States has locked horns with Islam as a whole include the US espionage activities in the Islamic countries, wholesale purchase or plunder of natural resources, presence of the US marines or other troops in the Islamic lands, attacks on the Muslim countries one after the other, wholesale killing of the Muslim populations in the name of collateral damage, disinterestedness over the issues of the Muslim majority areas under foreign occupation and now the new strategy of flaring public outrage against its own installed dictators in the Arab world.

On the other hand, some other factors contribute to the benign face of the Uncle Sam such as its support to the Bosnian Muslims, aid to the poor Islamic countries, spread of education and democracy in the Islamic world, freedom of the Muslim population from the dictatorships and above all monetary help of the Muslim countries. If we weight all these factors on a balance scale, it seems that the factors contributing to the impression of US-Islam at loggerheads weigh down. It means the line must be drawn somewhere where the United States or at least its government policies are going wrong.

Both the points are wrong. In fact, under capitalism, now the US policies are more governed by the seasoned politicians under the perception of bringing freedom and democracy. For last five or six decades, the rise of multinationals, industrial complexes and defense production factories have taken hold of the US policies. Now the major objective of spreading democracies and freedom have lagged far behind replaced by the sale of weapons to this or that country, profit, purchase of oil to run the economy, excelling in trade and above all the obsession to remain superpower for the next century. This capitalistic thinking has led to manufactured opinions within the media, leading to intellectual dishonesty at mass level. The public to public contact has been lost in the fog of joblessness and health care at home and war at the foreign front.

Recently, a new report has revealed that the US special operation forces are engaged in espionage in Africa as well after South Asia and Arabian countries. This strategy is leading to stretching the US arms that may one day stretch its economic wheel, forcing the people to go starved, while now they have only lost their jobs. The way out is only that the American public should be told the truth and taken on board while making policies instead of using the industrial tycoons.

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