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>A Non-Western Voice
>
> By Irina Malenko


open handz. kloze handz.

+ nn accuses the crocodile common murderers geert lovink. andreas broeckmann
+ extra okzident mafia psychopaths of systematic crimes against humanity.
western imperialism. colonialism. korporat.fascism.

filthy nematodes.

vr!!endel!jk.nn







>
> "Non-Westerners of the world, unite!"
> Since the 11th of September events in America the media are full of
> condemnation and condolences.
> What I had hoped them to be full of, was the simple question: "Why?"
> Because without asking this question the world is going nowhere.
> What I feel after the 11th of September here in Ireland, is exclusion
>and
> discrimination. No, I am not a Muslim and I do not look much different
>from
> the Irish people. And yet, there is an invisible division line, sadly,
> created by the majority of the Irish people, perhaps, even not
>realizing
>it.
> It is their division between "us" and "them", "non-Westerners", on
>behalf
>of
> the "civilized" West.
> They demand - yes, demand!- us to grief for the Western innocent
>victims
> while themselves, they didn't have a single SECOND of silence for
> non-Western innocent victims of the Western governments who were and
>still
> are being murdered "in the name of democracy and freedom".
> If you don't bow to this demand of compulsory extra-grief - and I
>refuse to
> grief more for one sort of the victims than for another!- you are
>labeled
>as
> "uncivilized" or even "terrorist".
> Can you imagine Iraqis or Yugoslavs demanding from Westerners to grief
>for
> their loved ones? Even though they have undoubtedly more moral rights
>to do
> so.
> I can't. That must be a prerogative of "civilized" nations!
> Where were you with your "civilization" when your own governments in
>cold
> blood murdered Iraqi and Yugoslav children? Where were others of you
>when
> your governments were applauding to these killings?
> I feel sick to my stomach watching oh so many times how Bill Clinton
>who
>can
> never wash off his hands all the innocent blood that he has shed around
>the
> world in his 8 years in the office, was cheered and greeted in Ireland
>as
> "The Peacemaker".
> Let's face it: our, non-Western victims, do not count for the majority
>of
> you. You don't even like us to say how we feel about it. We are
>supposed to
> mourn only your deaths.
> If they do count - and I mean not just for the small groups of
>courageous
> Westerners who are raising their voice against the current barbarity of
>the
> "civilized" world, but for all those Irish people who had their 3
>minutes
>of
> silence on Friday, 14.09- , if they do, where are you now, when even
>more
> innocent HUMAN BEINGS are being slaughtered? Simply because they were
> "unlucky" to be born outside of your "civilization".
> With all its beautiful talks against racism (even though Durban has
>pretty
> much shown to the world who is who on this issue!), the West divides
>nations
> into categories even after death. It invented 2 sorts of victims. Did
> anybody notice that, apparently, there is the 1st class victims: those
>from
> the rich countries who deserve minutes of silence, mourning days,
>candle
> light vigils, tears and millions in solidarity donations - and then
>there
>is
> 2nd class, "the rest of us", - "the collateral damage", as they nicely
>and
> civilized put it here.
> What I am about to say, is not going to make me very popular here. But
>my
> pain and my dismay at the double standards of the Western general
>public,
> are too strong and it hurts too much to continue to keep quiet.
> Ashes of the "collateral damage" of your civilization are knocking into
>my
> heart.
> It is apparently "OK" to kill the innocent "in the name of democracy
>and
> freedom". It is "OK" to kill the children of one nation "in the name of
> human rights" for another. Is that what your "civilization" is about?
> People of Afghanistan now are yet another "collateral damage" to the
>most
>of
> you. Just like in 1999 during NATO aggression against Yugoslavia *(if
>you
> still remember it!), now we are being told the same fairy tales - that
>this
> is "not the war against the Afghani (Yugoslav) people, but against
>terrorism
> (president Milosevic)".
> Whom do they hope to fool? It is the people, not the leaders, who are
>dying
> daily. Just as the terrorist acts in America weren't "the war on the
> American people", but on their leaders' policy - yet, those leaders are
> still alive and kicking, while nearly 6000 civilians have vanished.
> Where is the difference?
> The difference is in the Western public opinion on different values of
> different nations' human lives.
> I can only imagine how furious not just the media, but the ordinary
>citizens
> here would be if anybody would have called the American 11th of
>September
> victims "collateral damage" in the global fight against Western
>domination
> and Western state terrorism.
> American terrorist Timothy McVeigh has used the term "collateral
>damage"
>for
> his own American victims and was immediately condemned by the outraged
> Americans: how dared he, a private terrorist, to compare his American
> victims with some "uncivilized" non-Western victims of his state
> counterpart?
> TO SUGGEST THAT NOT ALL HUMAN LIVES ARE OF THE SAME
>VALUE, IS NAKED RACISM.
> Yet, the Western governments and media are not just suggesting it: this
>is
> their preconception of the world. It is clear as daylight from the
>actions -
> no matter what they say. This is an axiom for them, something that
>doesn't
> even need a proof. That is why their own leaders whose true place is
>the
> cells of Scheveningen jail in Holland, in the defendants' box of the
>Hague
> tribunal, are still being cheered and greeted as "peacemakers".
> After the 11th of September , when we are forced "to make a choice" :
>either
> to be with Mr. Bush and his understanding of freedom (that is, freedom
>to
> bomb any other nation, without any need for any international law, and
>to
> threaten anybody who disagrees) or else., I feel increasingly that I am
>not
> with the West on this one.
> How can I be? I was just shown once again that myself and people like
>me,
> are not equal. That for far too many Irish people it is only "an
>enormous
> tragedy" if there are people of Irish origin among the victims (what
>about
> enormousness of the tragedy in Rwanda?!)
> I am a non-Westerner here. It was not my choice to feel this way. Just
>like
> any human person, I felt a shock when I saw other human beings jumping
>off
> the skyscraper on the 11th of September. I felt pain for their families
> because I know what it's like to lose somebody you love. Now, finally,
> Americans as a nation feel that too. But what is their reaction?
> The reason that I feel a stranger here now, was the choice of those who
>have
> no respect or compassion for the dead ones of other nations. For the
>victims
> of their own governments in other countries.
> It was the choice of those who can throw McDonald's food that is left
>over,
> into the bin, cheerfully shouting: " This is for Ethiopia!"
> We, non-Westerners, have less and less choice in this world, since the
> continuing destruction of any decent alternative that we had, to "The
> Western Way of life" that is being forcefully imposed on us in our home
> countries.
> What are our choices? Either to flee our homes and to come here, where
>we
> live so often in hostility while creating wealth for the West, or to
>die
> slowly from poverty, crime, sicknesses, diseases and oppression at
>home,
> under our own comprador governments, because of the debts they made to
>the
> same West, in order to pay for their own luxury lives.
> Aha, there is also a new alternative now: to be bombed to pulp by a
>deadly
> mixture of ultra-expensive missiles and "humanitarian help" "in the
>name of
> civilization". "Civilized" nations need to restore their economy from
> depression, you see, - and a war is the best way to do it..
> Let me tell you something. This is NOT "retaliation".
> If it was right and just to "retaliate" this way for crimes against
>humanity, the whole West should have been leveled to the ground by now.
> What we are witnessing, is last century's imperialism on its way back -
> under that brand-new smiling mask of "Civilization". Sadly, it seems
>that
> countries that weren't imperialist in the past and that are even now
>still
> partially colonized, are also joining this "crusade".
> Retaliation? What retaliation? Remember, looking back at the part of
>your
> own history, which you refuse to recognize: we didn't start the fire!






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