Fragging statement: MSH and Anwar al Awlaki
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All the facts about the Fort Hood shootings are not in yet. The facts may never be fully known. After all, the bourgeois media, the accused’s handlers, and others, will try to craft their own narratives around the events. However, it is reported that there was a mass shooting that killed 13 and wounded 30 others at Fort Hood on November 5th, 2009. The alleged shooter is Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist. According to reports, Hasan, a Muslim, is a vocal opponent of the war. He reportedly defended armed resistance to imperialism, including suicide attacks on US forces. Whether or not the shootings were a politically motivated attack against imperialism is not known yet.
The bourgeois media has condemned the horror of the shootings. However, capitalism-imperialism is the real horror. The continued existence of the US and other imperialist countries is the real horror. The US was born of the greatest genocide in human history. Amerikans exterminated a continent of Indigenous civilizations to make way for its racist empire. Millions of Blacks and Africans were killed and enslaved to make the US what it is today: the most murderous country that has ever existed. There is not a corner of the Third World that escapes the murderous grasp of US imperialism. Billions of people in the Third World barely survive, making less than 2.50 dollars a day, exploited by the US and First World. Billions live in poverty so that US and other First World populations live in luxury. Billions live under constant military threat from the imperialists. In Iraq alone there have been 100,000 to 600,000 violent deaths since 2003. In Afghanistan, there have been 12,000 to 32,000 civilian deaths since 2001.
Those who strike out against the real horrors of imperialism should be applauded, not condemned. Fragging has a long histoy. In the last century, fragging was a form of resistance practiced by Russian troops against their Czarist officers during World War 1 and the Bolshevik revolution. Fragging was also a form of protest against the genocide waged by the US against Vietnam.
Fragging is still a valid form of resistance today. Not only does fragging hurt imperialist forces in a very direct way, fragging strikes a strong psychological blow against the enemy. Fragging demoralizes and destroys the enemy from within.
Islamic cleric Anwar al Awlaki, who knew Hasan earlier in life, had this to say about the events:
“Nidal Hassan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn’t exist. Any decent Muslim cannot live, understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims, and yet serve as a US soldier. The US is leading the war against terrorism which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges.
Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done? In fact the only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the US army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of men like Nidal.
The heroic act of brother Nidal also shows the dilemma of the Muslim American community. Increasingly they are being cornered into taking stances that would either make them betray Islam or betray their nation. Many amongst them are choosing the former. The Muslim organizations in America came out in a pitiful chorus condemning Nidal’s operation.
The fact that fighting against the US army is an Islamic duty today cannot be disputed. No scholar with a grain of Islamic knowledge can defy the clear cut proofs that Muslims today have the right -rather the duty- to fight against American tyranny. Nidal has killed soldiers who were about to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in order to kill Muslims. The American Muslims who condemned his actions have committed treason against the Muslim Ummah and have fallen into hypocrisy.
Allah(swt) says: Give tidings to the hypocrites that there is for them a painful punishment –
Those who take disbelievers as allies instead of the believers. Do they seek with them honor [through power]? But indeed, honor belongs to Allah entirely. (al-Nisa 136-137)
The inconsistency of being a Muslim today and living in America and the West in general reveals the wisdom behind the opinions that call for migration from the West. It is becoming more and more difficult to hold on to Islam in an environment that is becoming more hostile towards Muslims.
May Allah grant our brother Nidal patience, perseverance and steadfastness and we ask Allah to accept from him his great heroic act. Ameen”
Although we do not agree that Muslims should necessarily leave the West en masse, we applaud al-Awlaki’s condemnation of the pro-Yankkkee lackeys in the Muslim community and his open endorsement of warfare against the imperialist enemy. Every human worthy of the name has a duty to fight an imperialist enemy that kills tens of millions of humans every year.
Sources
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29#Aggregation_of_estimates
3. http://www.anwar-alawlaki.com/?p=228
The media has wrongly emphasized the terrorism of Muslims and how they kill a few soldiers every now and then. But white capitalists have been the worst terrorists in history, causing more death and suffering than a Muslim with a few handguns. No one can say anything in public, though, because expressing anything other than horror at something like the shooting draws the attention of G Men and VA farm boys. God forbid someone should think that non-whites have grievances against imperialist powers that invade their countries, set up puppet regimes, appropriate resources and establish new markets.
To paraphrase Che Guevara, there should be one, two, three … many Fort Hoods throughout “Land of the Free.”
Although we do not agree that Muslims should necessarily leave the West en masse, we applaud al-Awlaki’s condemnation of the pro-Yankkkee lackeys in the Muslim community and his open endorsement of warfare against the imperialist enemy. Muslim or otherwise, every human worthy of the name has a duty to fight an imperialist enemy that kills tens of millions of humans every year.
Down with the united $nakes!
It’s right to rebel!
If one were looking for arranging or setting up a patsy could one do better?
Hey ,walking about a military base in Arab gear and all, He is about as good for the media as the Russian connected Lee Harvey Oswald.
I just checked most of the major websites calling themselves “Maoist.” None have made a statement about fragging. None have the courage to do so. At least in the 1960s, people had the courage to take a stand on the issue. So-called “Maoists,” first Worldists, are just liberals. Wishy washy.
Recently, a radical Muslim group in the US praised the shooter Major Nidal Hasan M.D., calling him an “officer” and a “gentleman” and supported his actions against the fallen pig soldiers. This group is an example of American Muslims who are not traitors to Islam, but are nation-traitors. They also hate Amerikkka, and rightly so.
Check them out, Revolution Muslim
During the Vietnam war, some groups advised go to Vietnam and convert the troopers and officers. Others advised fragging. The former is the approach of the labor aristocracy. The former approach holds out that Amerikan troopers just suffer from false consciousness. They just need the right Trotskyist sect to unlock their minds. The latter approach recognizes Amerikans for what they are: die hard enemies of the exploited. Yes, let’s open their minds: Off with their heads.