On July 17, 1973, when the Afghan king was on vacation, Mohammad Daoud Khan seized power. …
Central Asia has a population of about 70 million who have little wealth therefore their cultures have little political influence for the individuals therein, consisting of five republics: Kazakhstan (pop. 18 million), Kyrgyzstan (6 million), Tajikistan (9 million), Turkmenistan (6 million), and Uzbekistan (31 million). Afghanistan (pop. 35 million).
Afghanistan is bordered by the other ‘stans plus China, Iran and Pakistan. Seven border countries, Seven nations, all followers of Islam. All hostile to Christians, Jews and Hindus and very hostile to America.
The ‘Stans contain some really big cities with names with which most Americans would be unfamiliar such as: Astana, (300,000 people), Almmaty, 1.1 million, Bishkek, 800,000, Osh, 221,000, Dushanbe, 581,000, Ashgabat, 700,000, -Bukhara, -Baku, -Samarkand, -Tashkent, -Yerevan … The people from those places follow Islam. Those people are at war with America.
The War Against The West is not just a religious based war because there are waring factions of the same religion within the countries.
Calling a place “Sacred” then limiting access establishes an illusory “scarcity” which causes people to fight. We can see this in the context of Islam with its holy sites and cities: Mecca, Medina, the Dome of the Rock, Hebron, and so on. The holiness of each site is associated with violence against other religions or against other Muslims, and their importance has been as dependent on politics as religion that shows how the degree to which political ideologies and parties make use of the religious concept of “holiness” to further their agendas which may or may not follow the specific religion.
In America we follow the separation of church and state. For most Muslims, mosque and state have ideally always been united. Muhammad did not simply found a religious movement – he founded a community, the ummah of believers.
How will this end? No one seems to be able to predict when or how it will end but for now it’s a constant state of war. In the George Orwell classic 1984, there is a state of perpetual war between the nations of Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. The enemy in the conflict is ambiguous, and the battlefield exists in an elusive and distant land. The enemy could be Eurasia one day, and Eastasia the next, but that location is really insignificant.
The mission of perpetual war for these fictitious superpowers is to justify psychological and physical control over their populations, to keep their people busy, fearful and hateful towards the enemy. The perpetual war also serves as an excuse for a nation’s failings and shortcomings. The economy, the labor force and industry are all centered around war rather than consumer goods. People live a miserable existence with poverty and no hope of improving their standard of living. Does Orwell’s vision seem similiar to the situation between Islam and the West?
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