By Ghulam Muhammed
Al-Jazeerah, July 21, 2004
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion
US/UK media, including CNN and BBC are relishing with the use of a new name in Sudanese imbroglio: the Arabs. Typical of spin doctoring and blatant propaganda techniques of the most reprehensible kind!
The world has yet to be introduced to the new brand of Arab.
This is not ethnically or racially distinct group that can match the description of Semites that inhibit the Middle East Arab world.
This group is African black group, who speak Arabic language and they do not confirm to all that distinguishes an Arab or non-Arab. So, now, according to the US and UK propaganda pushed through CNN and BBC, those now speak Arabic, are being typecast as the Arabs, as if all that speak English are English, or those that speak French are French.
But the media might is media right.
Once the adversary becomes Arab – a generic term now, it is a short jump to Arab Muslim terrorists. The area of targeted victims has to be increased and kept flexible to be available to US/UK forays into practically indefensible Middle Eastern countries.
The alternate term of ‘Janjaweed’ too is as specious and indeterminate as ‘Al Qaida’ and Al Jama’a Islamiya’ ---- all specially fashioned and promoted code names as if used in Armed Force planning. Janjaweed is reported to be a ‘criminal gang’ comprising members from various tribes of all colours and shades. This group could have been even employed by western agencies to foment trouble so the West and United Nation could get a pretext to go into Sudan.
BBC is devoting hours and hours of coverage of the ‘refugees’ of Darfur. BBC itself informs that the crisis has been brewing for eighteen months. So why this emergency and orchestrated media and ‘Human Rights Watch’ and Amnesty chorus all of a sudden! Is it to take the heat off Iraq?
This is just the preliminaries for another blatant intervention in the name of Human Rights. After all, Sudan, still a potential target and lucrative honey pot, is on the priority list of future US armed intervention. For the crime of being a Muslim majority Nation with a Christian minority, sitting on prime real estate with immense oil and gas reserves.
GHULAM MUHAMMED, Mumbai – <ghulam_muhammed2 at yahoo.co.in>