Monday, November 4, 2024

How to be Human in Tyranny of a War Culture? by Dr Mahboob A Khawaja

 

Horrors and Pains Inflicted on the People of Gaza

 

We ,the People of Conscience are living in a time when most moral and intellectual vigilance are liable to ruthless purging of our being human, our very existence: ‘How to be human in tyranny of US-Israel War Culture?’ There is no sustainable idealism in human life except painted fantasy and much evil and much good in the world we live-in. If we claim to be a ‘moral being’ then we must prove to be moral human beings in all of our endeavors. The truth is we have serious problems defining ourselves as moral beings when the on-going wars in Gaza and Ukraine and bombing and killings of innocent people create data for daily abnormal doses of humanity to be the new normal of socio-economic and political consumption. The contradictions are covered up by massive adroit formulation of political, economic and inhuman manipulations of a few elite classes governing the global affairs. Often realist thinkers wondered if human beings were born as blood thirsty creatures. Not so, Michael Wesch (TheArt of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology, 2018), tries to define and quotes David Foster Wallace:

https://anth101.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WeschAOBH_FrontMatter.pdf

 

RELIGIONSAND WISDOM OF THE WORLD “In the day-to-day trenches of adult life,there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing asnot worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is whatto worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort ofgod or spiritual-type thing to worship – be it JC or Allah, be itYHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess… – is that pretty much anythingelse you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things…then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. …Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure, and you will alwaysfeel ugly. … Worship power, you will end up feeling weak andafraid. … Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will endup feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.

 

Docultures and civilizations grow out of the moral mire ofbombardments,cruelty, killing, conquest, occupation and destructionof humanity? If the US and Israel think to be the most powerfulnations on earth, they are on a wrong path of thinking and action tohave killed more than 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza and some 17,000women and children still buried under rubble and a stinky unhealthyatmosphere prevalent in the strip. History reveals in all ages,people and nations claiming to be most powerful and transgressorsmanipulating the Earth and humanity were destroyed by the Laws of God– natural causes. We are witnessing the biblical warnings such asstorms, flooding, earthquakes and wildfires happening across theglobe as the Bible warns its faithful. Manyempires and egoistic leaders went this natural route of meeting theirends. Life is a trial, and bombing, killing of fellow human beings isnot a justifiable act of reason and truth but of stupidity, madnessand crimes against humanity. Has America and Israel reached thatstage of thoughts and endeavors? Is it a gain in the present and aloss in the future? Do they not believe in the holistic conception oflife as a sacred trust full of ultimate accountability to God?

 

Behold,thy Lord said to the angels: I will create a vicegerent on earth.They said” Wilt Thou place therein one who will make mischief andshed blood; whilst we do celebrate Thy praises and glorify Thy HolyName. God said: I know what ye not know. (TheQur’an: Chapter 2:30).

 

WarmongersWaiting for ‘the Judgment’

TheUS Biden administration deceived and misled mankind while talking ofa ceasefire plan since May 2024, and a ‘two state solution’ justto buy time to enable Israel put finishing end to life in Gaza and tothe freedom of Palestine. Its Arab leader stooges in the Arabian Gulfregion running around and pretending to be peace mediators werenothing else except authoritarian complicit rulers and failure in allwalks of life. We see the US and Israeli leaders having unbridledambitions and power unleash violent assumptions of hatred, secretintrigues and animosities and killings overwhelm the daily thinkingprocess, a society – a nation no matter how normal claims to be,cannot function as normal beings to co-exist within their own self,the surroundings – they mock the originality of Palestinains andcall ‘death to Arabs.’ The Israeli leaders had plans long beforeGaza onslaught to populate it with settlers and rob off its naturalresources. Felicity Arbhutant (Video: “Wiping Gaza Off the Map”:BigMoney Agenda. Confiscating Palestine’s Maritime Natural GasReserves.Video Interview with Michel Chossudovsky.Global Research:10/23/24), explains: Anofficial “secret” memorandum authored by Israel’s Ministry ofIntelligence “isrecommending the forcible and permanent transfer of the Gaza Strip’s2.2 million Palestinian residents to Egypt’s SinaiPeninsula”,namely to a refugeecamp in Egyptian territory. There are indications of Israel-Egyptnegotiations as well as consultations with theU.S. https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-gas-oil-and-trouble-in-the-levant/5362955

 

Aslanted vision flares up the dark face of political reality, theUS-Israeli leaders pushing war as a means of peace and war economyare like scum floating on a torrent. Evilhappens when conscientious men do nothing. Human glory lives in theconception of good and righteousness, not warriors of economic wars,robotic machines, weapons of destruction or agents of politicalterrorism. We are moral beings enriched with inner consciousness andvision for peace, human unity and sustainable future. It is aHobbesian formula: “war of all against all.” Germanphilosopher Immanuel Kant (“Perpetual Peace”, 1795), wasmore proactive and realistic when he noted that: “Intellectualsmust be seated in chosen assemblies and systems of public governanceto overt individualistic insanity against the people.”

 

Life and Earth are aTrust to be Protected

Godcreated the Heavens and Earth as a Trust to fulfill all humanaspirations and to flourish human generations since time immemorial.It was not meant to be bombed and destroyed by sheer ignorance andwickedness. Are we neglectful of our origin and encompassed reality?Life is a trust and connected to accountability. It is God Whogave you life, will cause you to die. And will again give you Life:truly man is A most ungrateful creature. ( The Quran: 22: 66). Ourprofessed ignorance and arrogance towards Divine Knowledge has pushedus to echo evil and futility in a global cataclysm – thetreacherous conflict causing degeneration to be at the epicenter ofman-made cataclysm driven by lingering suspicion in relations toothers within the splendid Universe. The earth and universe are meantfor human beings and are enriched to support all of their needs overtime and space. Are we living in a disconnected world of our ownmaking?

 

Howdo you limit man-made terror, egomaniac tyranny and devastationagainst fellow human beings? Jesus is quoted in theBible saying: “If the world hates you, you know it hatedme before it hated you…if they persecuted me, they will alsopersecute you…John 15:18-25” Howdo We,the People of Human Conscience makethese ugly and disingenuous politicians to learn from history andchange the course of events into peace and harmony for all of us? Thequality of our intellectual consciousness is lost in the world oftime and space. All international institutions are broken anddeliberately kept dysfunctional.Truth is One and the same unchangingas it was many centuries earlier. Theemerging wars and destruction of Earth and human habitats are blatantviolations of that TRUST betweenMan and the Creator and call for awakening of human conscience andsoul: “TrulyMan is to his Lord, ungrateful and that (fact) he bears witness (byhis deeds.): 6-7:100: The Qur’an).

Allinformed global communities have passion for peace, not wars.Whennations and leaders subscribing to political absolutism start actinglike God and challenge the sanctity and limits of the Lawsof God;historically speaking they become an object of unthinkable naturalcalamities- earthquakes, wildfires, floods, deaths anddestruction. TheMessage of the Qur’an (64 and 67: 40),clarifies the truth of universal brotherhood and wisdom for all thetimes to come:

 

Itis God, Who has made for you the Earth as a resting place and the skyas a canopy; And has given you shape and made your shapes beautiful,and has provided for your sustenance, Of things pure and good; Suchis God your Lord. So Glory to God, the Lord of the Worlds. It is HeWho has created you from dust, Then from a sperm-drop, Then from aleech-like clot; then He does He get you out (into the light) as achild; then lets you grow and reach your age of full strength; thenlets you become old. Though of you there are some of who die before;And lets you reach a Term appointed; In order that ye may learnwisdom.

 

We,the people must synthesize awakening of human consciousness for animmediate ceasefire, peace and sustainable future. Our reasoningcannot be tampered with impunity as those responsible must be heldaccountbale for crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza andPalestine. CaitlinJohnstone (“We never really had a chance to build a healthyworld.” Information Clearing House: 09/11/22), authorof Woke:A Field Guide for UtopiaPreppershttps://caitlinjohnstone.com: clarifieswhat went wrong: And we wonder why everyone’s so dysfunctionaland self-destructive. ….So we’re all innocent, in the end. Again,we must of course push to bring consciousness to the parts ofhumanity that have taken a wrong turn — to the war criminals andplutocrats and managers of the empire, and all other abusers and theabusive systems which elevate them. But underneath that fierce burstof light there can also be a deep compassion and understanding bornof a lucid seeing of how we got here in the first place.

 

Dr.Mahboob A. Khawaja specializesin international affairs-global security, peace and conflictresolution and has spent several academic years across theRussian-Ukrainian and Central Asian regions knowing the people,diverse cultures of thinking and political governance and a keeninterest in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations,and author of several publications including: One Humanity and theRemaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution, and aforthcoming book: Global Humanity and the Remaking of Peace, Securityand Conflict Resolution beyond the Lens of Human Consciousness.

 

 

 

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