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=== News Update ===
The "Demonization" of Muslims and the Battle for Oil
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, January 4, 2007
Throughout history, " wars of religion" have served to obscure the
economic and strategic interests behind the conquest and invasion of
foreign lands. "Wars of religion" were invariably fought with a view to
securing control over trading routes and natural resources.
The Crusades extending from the 11th to the 14th Century are often
presented by historians as "a continuous series of military-religious
expeditions made by European Christians in the hope of wresting the Holy
Land from the infidel Turks." The objective of the Crusades, however,
had little to do with religion. The Crusades largely consisted, through
military action, in challenging the dominion of the Muslim merchant
societies, which controlled the Eastern trade routes.
The "Just War" supported the Crusades. War was waged with the support of
the Catholic Church, acting as an instrument of religious propaganda and
indoctrination, which was used in the enlistment throughout Europe of
thousands of peasants, serfs and urban vagabonds.
America's Crusade in Central Asia and the Middle East
In the eyes of public opinion, possessing a "just cause" for waging war
is central. A war is said to be Just if it is waged on moral, religious
or ethical grounds.
America's Crusade in Central Asia and the Middle East is no exception.
The "war on terrorism" purports to defend the American Homeland and
protect the "civilized world". It is upheld as a "war of religion", a
"clash of civilizations", when in fact the main objective of this war is
to secure control and corporate ownership over the region's extensive
oil wealth, while also imposing under the helm of the IMF and the World
Bank (now under the leadership of Paul Wolfowitz), the privatization of
State enterprises and the transfer of the countries' economic assets
into the hands of foreign capital. .
The Just War theory upholds war as a "humanitarian operation". It serves
to camouflage the real objectives of the military operation, while
providing a moral and principled image to the invaders. In its
contemporary version, it calls for military intervention on ethical and
moral grounds against "rogue states" and "Islamic terrorists", which are
threatening the Homeland.
Possessing a "just cause" for waging war is central to the Bush
administration's justification for invading and occupying both
Afghanistan and Iraq.
Taught in US military academies, a modern-day version of the "Just War"
theory has been embodied into US military doctrine. The "war on
terrorism" and the notion of "preemption" are predicated on the right to
"self defense." They define "when it is permissible to wage war": jus ad
bellum.
Jus ad bellum serves to build a consensus within the Armed Forces
command structures. It also serves to convince the troops that the enemy
is "evil" and that they are fighting for a "just cause". More generally,
the Just War theory in its modern day version is an integral part of war
propaganda and media disinformation, applied to gain public support for
a war agenda.
The Battle for Oil. Demonization of the Enemy
War builds a humanitarian agenda. Throughout history, vilification of
the enemy has been applied time and again. The Crusades consisted in
demonizing the Turks as infidels and heretics, with a view to justifying
military action.
Demonization serves geopolitical and economic objectives. Likewise, the
campaign against "Islamic terrorism" (which is supported covertly by US
intelligence) supports the conquest of oil wealth. The term "Islamo-
fascism," serves to degrade the policies, institutions, values and
social fabric of Muslim countries, while also upholding the tenets of
"Western democracy" and the "free market" as the only alternative for
these countries.
The US led war in the broader Middle East Central Asian region consists
in gaining control over more than sixty percent of the world's supplies
of oil and natural gas. The Anglo-American oil giants also seek to gain
control over oil and gas pipeline routes out of the region. (See table
and maps below).
Muslim countries including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, the United
Arab Emirates, Qatar, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria, Algeria, Kazakhstan,
Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, possess between 66.2 and 75.9
percent of total oil reserves, depending on the source and methodology
of the estimate. (See table below).
In contrast, the United States of America has barely 2 percent of total
oil reserves. Western countries including its major oil producers
( Canada, the US, Norway, the UK, Denmark and Australia) control
approximately 4 percent of total oil reserves. (In the alternative
estimate of the Oil and Gas Journal which includes Canada's oil sands,
this percentage would be of the the order of 16.5%. See table below).
The largest share of the World's oil reserves lies in a region extending
(North) from the tip of Yemen to the Caspian sea basin and (East) from
the Eastern Mediterranean coastline to the Persian Gulf. This broader
Middle East- Central Asian region, which is the theater of the US-led
"war on terrorism" encompasses according to the estimates of World Oil,
more than sixty percent of the World's oil reserves. (See table below).
Iraq has five times more oil than the United States.
Muslim countries possess at least 16 times more oil than the Western
countries.
The major non-Muslim oil reserve countries are Venezuela, Russia,
Mexico, China and Brazil. (See table)
Demonization is applied to an enemy, which possesses three quarters of
the world's oil reserves. "Axis of evil", "rogue States", "failed
nations", "Islamic terrorists": demonization and vilification are the
ideological pillars of America's "war on terror". They serve as a casus
belli for waging the battle for oil.
The Battle for Oil requires the demonization of those who possess the
oil. The enemy is characterized as evil, with a view to justifying
military action including the mass killing of civilians. The Middle East
Central Asian region is heavily militarized. (See map). The oil fields
are encircled: NATO war ships stationed in the Eastern Mediterranean (as
part of a UN "peace keeping" operation), US Carrier Strike Groups and
Destroyer Squadrons in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian deployed as part
of the "war on terrorism".
The ultimate objective, combining military action, covert intelligence
operations and war propaganda, is to break down the national fabric and
transform sovereign countries into open economic territories, where
natural resources can be plundered and confiscated under "free market"
supervision. This control also extends to strategic oil and gas pipeline
corridors (e.g. Afghanistan).
Demonization is a PSYOP, used to sway public opinion and build a
consensus in favor of war. Psychological warfare is directly sponsored
by the Pentagon and the US intelligence apparatus. It is not limited to
assassinating or executing the rulers of Muslim countries, it extends
to entire populations. It also targets Muslims in Western Europe and
North America. It purports to break national consciousness and the
ability to resist the invader. It denigrates Islam. It creates social
divisions. It is intended to divide national societies and ultimately
trigger "civil war". While it creates an environment which facilitates
the outright appropriation of the countries' resources, at the same
time, it potentially backlashes, creates a new national consciousness,
develops inter-ethnic solidarity, brings people together in confronting
the invaders.
It is worth noting that the triggering of sectarian divisions and
"civil wars" is contemplated in the process of redrawing of the map of
the Middle East, where countries are slated to be broken up and
transformed into territories. The map of the New Middle East, although
not official, has been used by the US National War Academy. It was
recently published in the Armed Forces Journal (June 2006). In this map,
nation states are broken up, international borders are redefined along
sectarian-ethnic lines, broadly in accordance with the interests of the
Anglo-American oil giants (See Map below). The map has also been used in
a training program at NATO's Defense College for senior military
officers.
MAP OF THE NEW MIDDLE EAST
Map: click to enlarge
Note:The following map was prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Peters.
It was published in the Armed Forces Journal in June 2006, Peters is a
retired colonel of the U.S. National War Academy. (Map Copyright
Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Peters 2006).
The Oil Lies in Muslim Lands
The oil lies in Muslim lands. Vilification of the enemy is part and
parcel of Eurasia energy geopolitics. It is a direct function of the
geographic distribution of the World's oil and gas reserves. If the oil
were in countries occupied predominantly by Buddhists or Hindus, one
would expect that US foreign policy would be directed against Buddhists
and Hindus, who would also be the object of vilification..
In the Middle East war theater, Iran and Syria, which are part of the
"axis of evil", are the next targets according to official US
statements.
US sponsored "civil wars" have also been conducted in several other
strategic oil and gas regions including Nigeria, the Sudan, Colombia,
Somalia, Yemen, Angola, not to mention Chechnya and several republics of
the former Soviet Union. Ongoing US sponsored "civil wars", which often
include the channelling of covert support to paramilitary groups, have
been triggered in the Darfur region of Sudan as well as in Somalia,
Darfur possesses extensive oil reserves. In Somalia, lucrative
concessions have already been granted to four Anglo-American oil
giants.
"According to documents obtained by The Times, nearly two-thirds of
Somalia was allocated to the American oil giants Conoco, Amoco [now part
of BP], Chevron and Phillips in the final years before Somalia's pro-
U.S. President Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown and the nation plunged
into chaos in January, 1991. Industry sources said the companies holding
the rights to the most promising concessions are hoping that the Bush
Administration's decision to send U.S. troops to safeguard aid shipments
to Somalia will also help protect their multimillion-dollar investments
there." (America's Interests in Somalia, Global Research, 2002)
Globalization and the Conquest of the World's Energy Resources
The collective demonization of Muslims, including the vilification of
Islam, applied Worldwide, constitutes at the ideological level, an
instrument of conquest of the World's energy resources. It is part of
the broader economic, political mechanisms underlying the New World
Order.
source:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?
context=viewArticle&code=CHO20070104&articleId=4347
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