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US, Israel, Saudi Arabia manufacturing fear in world: Analyst

Protesters hold a sign which reads " Islamophobia is not freedom" outside the French Embassy in London on August 25, 2016 to demonstrate against the ban on Burkinis on French beaches and to show solidarity with Muslim women. (AFP photo)

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein has launched a scathing attack on certain Western politicians for employing fear tactics, populist policies and the use of Daesh-like propaganda mechanisms to advance their goals. Abdul Alim Musa, the Imam of Masjid al-Islam, and Lawrence J. Korb, US foreign policy and national security analyst, have shared their views on these remarks in an interview with Press TV. 

Abdul Alim Musa believes that the anti-Muslim rhetoric is causing people around the world, especially in the United States, to take a closer look at Islam, adding the spread of fear and Islamophobia is actually increasing public awareness and making Muslims more unified.

The analyst went on to say that "the American public is beginning to realize that the ones who are manufacturing fear in the world are Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States."

“Actually most people are beginning to link America, Saudi Arabia and Daesh which are all part of one [system]. The people are beginning on their own now to link these together; not the functional practicing, peace-loving Muslims,” he stated.

The creation of Daesh, all the bombings and killings of Shia Muislims all over the world, especially in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, has made the public even more aware, he added.

Musa further argued that Muslims should use the bans not as an “obstacle” but as a “challenge” and an “opportunity” to explain the real Islam.

“We, the Muslims, will not be wiped out; we will not disappear. So we have to have discipline and courage and the way you fight fascism is concern, education and discipline,” he said.     

Lawrence J. Korb, for his part, noted that it was rather unfortunate that whenever the United States had some catastrophic problem, it overreacted, but he went on to say that America eventually got over the catastrophe and moved on somehow.  

According to Korb, most of the terrorism in the United States has nothing to do with Islam and a lot of it is caused by “neo-Nazis.”

However, it does not get attention because of the concerns about what happened in 9/11, he explained.


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