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Forgotten History - Tuesday, June 29, 2004 "Little known facts and overlooked history"
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
1:35:00 PM EDT
Feeling Sad
Hearing SOUTHERN GOSPEL
Colonialism
By Denis Mueller
Jumo Kenyatta was the founding father of Kenya and in trying
to describe their experience said: "When the missionaries
came to Africa we had land; they had the Bible. They asked
us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them they had
our land; we had the Bible." Joseph Conrad, the author of
Heart of Darkness, described the King Leopold conduct in
Africa as "the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured
the history of human conscience." Those who disobeyed had
their hands cut off and worse.
The Europeans came to Africa pledging to bring Christianity
to Africa. They came to rid the area of Islam. The powers of
Europe took the land and instituted their own form of slavery
which broke up families and looted Africa. Cecil Rhodes, the
founding father of Rhodesia, devised a scheme to tax the
natives who lived there. Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism,
turned to Rhodes for his support for his plan to colonize
Palestine. The model that Herzl would use was the same as the
colonizers that came from Europe. So you see that Zionism is
not only the search for Jewish homeland but built upon the
model of European colonization.
The maps that were drawn separated people, who had lived side
by side for centuries, and joined groups together who had
never been together before. The worst victim of the redrawn
map was the Kurdish people. The Kurds had produced the great
Islamic hero, Sultan Salahuddin Ayyoubi, who liberated
Jerusalem from the Christian Crusaders. The hatred for the
Kurds was so great that they divided the nation into separate
parts. You say this is nonsense well then listen to what
British General Allenby had to say at the end of the First
World War: "Saladin, today the Crusade has ended."
British colonizers helped to settle European Jews into
Palestine. The Balfour declaration promised a Jewish homeland
even though 90% of those populations were Muslims and only 3%
of the land was owned by Jews. All the European powers agreed
to the division and the United States went along with this
illegal theft. We have since provided the military support
that has sustained this while denying that we are part of the
problem. During the 1967 war the other half of Palestine was
taken and today we wonder why there is such violence. When the
Palestinians tried to fight back they were called terrorists.
All of this has led us to where we are today. Is it any wonder
that we are hated? The war planners claimed that peace begins
in Baghdad but I am here to tell you that peace leads through
Palestine. What drove bin Laden to commit his heinous crimes?
It was the situation in Palestine. The newly released report
from the 9/11 Commission says as much. So while we turn over
power in Iraq it is important for us to remember history.
There can be no peace in the Middle East without justice in
Palestine. History cannot be undone and Israel is here to
stay but we must be even handed about this. If we deny the
lasting effects of history we condemn our young men and women
to an unending future of violence and death.
Sources: Habib Siddiqui
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Feeling Sad
Hearing SOUTHERN GOSPEL
Forgotten History - Tuesday, June 29, 2004 "Little known facts and overlooked history"
By Denis Mueller
Jumo Kenyatta was the founding father of Kenya and in trying
to describe their experience said: "When the missionaries
came to Africa we had land; they had the Bible. They asked
us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them they had
our land; we had the Bible." Joseph Conrad, the author of
Heart of Darkness, described the King Leopold conduct in
Africa as "the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured
the history of human conscience." Those who disobeyed had
their hands cut off and worse.
The Europeans came to Africa pledging to bring Christianity
to Africa. They came to rid the area of Islam. The powers of
Europe took the land and instituted their own form of slavery
which broke up families and looted Africa. Cecil Rhodes, the
founding father of Rhodesia, devised a scheme to tax the
natives who lived there. Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism,
turned to Rhodes for his support for his plan to colonize
Palestine. The model that Herzl would use was the same as the
colonizers that came from Europe. So you see that Zionism is
not only the search for Jewish homeland but built upon the
model of European colonization.
The maps that were drawn separated people, who had lived side
by side for centuries, and joined groups together who had
never been together before. The worst victim of the redrawn
map was the Kurdish people. The Kurds had produced the great
Islamic hero, Sultan Salahuddin Ayyoubi, who liberated
Jerusalem from the Christian Crusaders. The hatred for the
Kurds was so great that they divided the nation into separate
parts. You say this is nonsense well then listen to what
British General Allenby had to say at the end of the First
World War: "Saladin, today the Crusade has ended."
British colonizers helped to settle European Jews into
Palestine. The Balfour declaration promised a Jewish homeland
even though 90% of those populations were Muslims and only 3%
of the land was owned by Jews. All the European powers agreed
to the division and the United States went along with this
illegal theft. We have since provided the military support
that has sustained this while denying that we are part of the
problem. During the 1967 war the other half of Palestine was
taken and today we wonder why there is such violence. When the
Palestinians tried to fight back they were called terrorists.
All of this has led us to where we are today. Is it any wonder
that we are hated? The war planners claimed that peace begins
in Baghdad but I am here to tell you that peace leads through
Palestine. What drove bin Laden to commit his heinous crimes?
It was the situation in Palestine. The newly released report
from the 9/11 Commission says as much. So while we turn over
power in Iraq it is important for us to remember history.
There can be no peace in the Middle East without justice in
Palestine. History cannot be undone and Israel is here to
stay but we must be even handed about this. If we deny the
lasting effects of history we condemn our young men and women
to an unending future of violence and death.
Sources: Habib Siddiqui
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