The Western International Conspiracy Against The Islamic World
-Execution of Saddam Hussein on The Most Holy Day-Hajji-

By Ramani D.Wickramaratne

The USA had one agenda during the last 4 years and that was to teach a lesson to Saddam Hussein and Iraq directly, with the indirect target being the rest of the Islamic countries in the Middle-East "We are the Super Power and it is best to heed our dictates! " The bone of contention within Iraq that was projected to the outside world was the conflicts between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims but is this, the real reason for punishing Saddam Hussein?

In the long-drawn out agenda to destroy Saddam Hussein, the USA must never forget that they brought on more misery to the entire Iraqi civilian population whether they were innocents, Shiites or Sunnis-that is immaterial. For the entire length of the western presence in Iraq, they have deprived the Iraqis of leading normal lives according to their Islamic traditional life-style and observing their religious festivals in the customary festive manner. Children have been deprived on continuous education, nutritious food and medical facilities.

The USA must also never forget the fact that all the sweet sounding words of freedom, democracy and human rights that they" dish out" to other non-Christian countries have been thrown to the dogs when they broke every aorta of decency by invading Iraq and declaring war on a sovereign Islamic country and its President. The arrogance, intolerance and insensitive manner in which the USA acted by even depriving the Muslims in Iraq to celebrate their most Holy Festival Hajji in peace by ensuring that Saddam Hussein was executed exactly during the Hajji Festival, must be an eye-opener to the entire Islamic world of the barbaric nature of the US Government irrespective of whether it is under George Bush Jnr. or his father, or any other American President!

The real crime committed by Saddam Hussein was not the Shiites, the Sunnis, invasion of Kuwait or any other lame excuse that the USA has projected but, the fact that Saddam Hussein had the guts to declare that he would consider selling oil for Euro dollars instead of American dollars!

Leaders of the Islamic world must heed this fact and remember that they have shirked their responsibility of standing by one of their own countries when they permitted the USA to go ahead with their aggressive agenda of destroying Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Where is the brotherhood that Muslims talk about? Why did they back out of showing brotherly love and support to Saddam Hussein? Do they even now understand the seriousness of this shortcoming on their part at a time when Iraqis were facing a crisis?

There is no doubt that most non-Islamic countries will not condone some of the punishments meted out to criminals in the Islamic countries but then, if we were to adopt the moral concept of "live and let live" as so called developed countries, there is a manner in which suggestions could be made without invading a country and bringing untold misery to the entire population of that country- not only Saddam Hussein but innocent civilians! This is the way of "American hegemonism" a term we heard quite often during the 1960 -1970 eras. To back them up, they have an ever willing ally in the UK a country, which has traces of their colonial past of arrogance and insensitivity.

In this whole episode, what is most shocking is the role played by the United Nations and its inability to prove to the entire world, that it stood for decency, morality, humanitarianism (a term they love to use often against developing countries) and impartiality. It proved to the entire world, that the UN was a mere puppet being manipulated by American arrogance. What earthly use is the Security Council? With the arrogance of America being openly flaunted, it is sad to note that other western powers showed their fickle minds in not opposing the attacks on Iraq and military presence inside the sovereign territory of an independent Islamic State.

The fact that America has not shed its "cowboy heritage" was amply seen in the manner in which they terrorized others into silence while they had a field day in torturing Iraqis with a venom and orchestrating what seemed "like a judicial trial" which was set up with full American backing to murder Saddam Hussein and the rest of the entire so called decent world permitted it. No amount of excuses will justify this inhumane behaviour of one country towards another which is not even a neighbour "attempting to encroach into their territory" but a country many thousands of miles away.

It is high time that every western power thinks seriously about their own roles in the world and whether are going to tow the line of America in all low and dirty politics and be a party to American aggression.

Can we ever hope to have a peaceful world permitting only the affluent countries, to dictate to the rest of us? Sri Lanka should open her eyes and act with caution or else the fate of Iraqis, could some day be ours!