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CIA
worked in cahoots with Islamic hardliners to mislead the world and
shift the attention away from its 5-decade crimes record, charged
Garaudy
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By
Hadi Yahmid, IOL France Correspondent
PARIS,
June 24 (IslamOnline.net) - In his new book Le Terrorismo Occidental
(Western Terrorism) which hit the market Monday, June 23, famed French
Muslim writer and intellectual Roger Garaudy traces down the roots of
terrorism, culturally, politically and socially.
The
book, published by an Algerian publishing house after
being rebuffed by all French houses fearing backslash from the Jewish
lobby, starts 3000 years back an reaches to the modern U.S.
civilization, which spearheads the so-called anti-terror campaign to
strike hard its enemies, Garaudy told IslamOnline.net Tuesday, June
24.
He
added that the second part of the book will come to light soon
entitled "Islam and Modernity."
It
will highlight harmony between Islam and Western modernity and
spotlight Islam prominence and how that "Islamic extremism"
is a disease that is soon to fades away, asserted the French
intellectual.
Asked
whether "The Western Terrorism" came in response to the 9/11
attacks on Washington and New York, Garaudy said the introduction of
the book indicates that he started writing this book before the
September 11 attacks, which came to support his hypothesis.
The
twin towers and the Pentagon were well-chosen targets to paper over 50
years of U.S. hegemony, during which the CIA worked in cahoots with
Islamic hardliners to mislead the world and shift the attention away
from its 5-decade crimes record, he charged.
It
is not easy to forget the horrors of the Nazi, the bombardment of
Nagasaki and Hiroshima with atomic bombs, stressed Garaudy, adding
that by the same token it would not be easy to forget the U.S. crimes
in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Iraq.
The
9/11 attacks and a woven U.S. scenario for holding al-Qaeda leader
Osama bin Laden responsible serve best the plots of the CIA and U.S.
military to depict "Islamic terrorism" as the new enemy, he
said.
The
United Stets exploited this to wage wars on Afghanistan and Iraq
allegedly to establish democracy while the real reason is laying hands
on gas in central Asia and Iraqi oilfields, charged the French
intellectual.
He
noted that the U.S. succeeded in building a so-called anti-terror
coalition and that several countries believed this big lie which was
woven by the CIA.
Military
Lobby
Garaudy
further said that the U.S. foreign policy is now set up by the
military industrialized lobby, noting that the U.S. was turning the
heat on Iran and North Korea.
On
the recent students' anti-regime
rallies in Iran, Garaudy regretted that Iranian students have chosen to take
to the streets when their country was facing a stormy imperialistic
campaign, while everybody aware that the U.S.-styled democracy is led
by cash and the military industrialized lobby.
Regarding
the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories, he
stressed that he has chosen to fight Zionism by word, citing as an
example his book Les Mythes Fondateurs de La Politique Israelienne
(the Founding Myths of the Israeli Policy), which put on him on trial
for anti-Semitism.
However,
he said that relevant U.N. resolutions could settle the
Palestinian-israeli conflict, although Israel has breached 215
resolutions to date.
For
her part, Isabell Peyre, Garaudy's lawyer, said he was still suffering
from the hype caused by that book, noting that the French media has
been boycotting him since 1995.
