Where does the similarity lay? In fact, 9/11 was not the corollary of just jihad in Afghanistan, though it provided a fertile guide to young minds. Palestinian issue contributed a lot and it added rather fuel to the fire that the United States not only supported the Israeli expansion to Gaza, but also vetoed any resolution that came up or was presented in the UN General Assembly or Security Council, leaving Muslims to lick their wounds. Some other important issues where gross injustice was committed against Muslims also added insult to the injury. The issues of Chechnya, Bosnia, Kashmir and others further augmented this thinking. The major feeling was injustice against the Muslims that still continue.
Now that the US backed Arab Spring has taken hold of the entire Middle East, it is not a new thing. It is same New World Order that Bush Senior envisaged though it has backfired in some countries such as Egypt, leading to worries in Israel and the United States and other is to break up the “axis of resistance”. Recently Syrian Foreign Minister has said it during his interview with a journalist of The Independent that the US officials asked them to renounce their backing up to Iran and they would have peace in Syria that they spurned. The world that is backing resistance, insurgency or revolution in Syria is turning a blind eye to the same Arab Spring and Revolution in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain where majority is deprived of basic human rights such as freedom of expression and peaceful protests.
As far as US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan is concerned, democracy has not taken any form over there in these countries. Iraq is witnessing unprecedented Al-Qa’ida attacks that were nonexistent during Saddam regime and Afghanistan is witnessing rising attacks in the coalition forces. Mayhem in Pakistan is also the handiwork of the same forces, leading to estranged feelings among some fanatic factions and large-scale suicide attacks, originally intended to be launched against the western targets.
If all these developments in the Middle East and Muslim countries are jotted down together, they lead to a world scenario that is ripening toward another 9/11. In fact, if seen with an analytic mind, the situations that caused 9/11 are very much here. The difference is only that the anti-US and anti-western forces are not much coordinated and embedded in the western world.
Now the question is will these be coordinated enough to cause another such tragedy? The answer to this question is very big yes. The Muslims over there are now going through a wave of anti-Muslim propaganda and even some moves that are totally against the western norms as well. For example, ban of veil in France, Muslim targeting in the United States, permission of caricatures of the Holy Prophet [PBUH] in Germany, anti-Muslim resentment in other western countries are making the Muslim community living over there to feel separated from the mainstream politics and this is highly precarious development.
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