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23Jan/09

Why ‘they’ fear President Obama

Farrukh

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A beautiful word that encompasses every aspect of life.

Change. A beautiful word that encompasses every aspect of life. Active or passive, the process of change underpins our very existence. From the day we are born to the day we die, the one thing our body, soul and mind does, is to change.

As the credit crisis hits the global financial markets, despite the aid promised by cash rich Gulf States, our current generation is still dominated by the American experience, a large part of which is driven by American culture exported around the world and American innovation.

On the one hand we have digital voting booths which despite the fiasco that led to GW Bush's reelection; reports observe that machines were faulty with some facilities loosing a thousand votes at a time. Moving away from political technology to social technology, the internet is spearheading campaigns far and wide. Obama's campaign was a masterpiece, as well as capturing donations from traditional high value supporters; they sought donations from everyday people - low value, high volume. Traction.

The past few years have shown terrorists have used the internet to push out their message of hate. They have exploited the innocence of individuals, and in the case of jahil (read: Muslim) terrorists, exploited the ignorance

The past few years have shown terrorists have used the internet to push out their message of hate.

many vocal Muslim have with regards to the teachings of Islam and the sanctity of human life. For some time, we the general citizens of the world were subject to video message after message placed on the internet by leading terrorist figures.

Recent events showed how a video clip of a leading Chinese politician who assaulted an 11 year old girl, that was caught on CCTV camera, spread via the internet, led to positive action. Caught arguing, threatening the girls father, even offering to pay him for her, as a man would to a pimp for a prostitute, individuals became outraged. An on-line campaign was launched; he was tracked down (Lin Jiaxiang, party secretary of the Shenzhen Maritime Bureau) and promptly fired by the Government. Corruption exists everywhere, but kudos to the Chinese government for taking the right decision.

Today we are witnessing the influence of information, its distribution, and its control. From traditional 'information' on buses displays, to indirect advertising by offering voters free coffee and doughnuts, to newer forms of information such as social networking sites like face book where over 1.7 million individuals donated their 'status line' to support Barack Obama. With more than 120 million active users of whom 36 million are based in the United States, these 1.7 million users represent a significant population demonstrating how new technology can affect change, initiate dialogue, becoming the terrorists worst enemy.

Terrorism thrives on disorder, chaos and ignorance driven by a misguided passion. As a movement, to affect the masses, it relies on misrepresenting facts. This is why under GW Bush, terrorism flourished. A couple of leading examples being the false implied association with Saddam Hussein as having something to do with 9/11 so as to justify a war leading to the farce that is Iraq today; to manipulation of international law to create a center for torture in Guantanamo Bay, slowly stripping away the freedoms, rights, processes of justice that differentiates us, the good citizens of the world from terrorists. The only way to combat terrorism is not by responding unjustly, it is to respond with justice, something the Bush administration overlooked in a desperate attempt to curtail the problem of jahil terrorism.

Obama isn't the perfect solution but he is the answer to many of our prayers. He has inherited a difficult legacy one where the world loves the American people but hates certain aspects of American policy as they affect eachand every one of us. The upcoming years will show whether he is capable of delivering his vision of change. And that, finally, an American Politician can pronounce the name of 'Pakistan' correctly, is for me a glimmer of hope suggesting that respect and fairness may be less of a dream becoming more of a reality.

Already, Obama has used new media and newer forms of information and communication to reach out to the everyday American. It is new technology that contributed to his victory, a trend which I personally hope will continue throughout his years in office. To me, if just 10% of Obama's vision of inclusion, dialogue and interaction, is achieved, America will find itself on the 'road to recovery'.

This is why 'they' fear him. They are scared of education. They are scared of people becoming informed. They are scared of stereotypes being removed. They are scared of their medium, the internet, no longer being the medium which they can exploit. The American people have spoken, the American people want change, and the power of democracy has shown that America may now return and exceed itself by becoming the once great nation (despite its flaws) it once was.

The opinions expressed in this article are of the author and not necessarily of Vibes.

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  1. More examples of the Bush policies being carried forward: news.bbc.co.uk The same policies that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was subject to for 5 years as a victim of the American run rape and torture rooms.

  2. This is a classic example of the typical American mind. If you repeatedly say something, people will believe it, regardless of whether its actually true. Bush, Rumsfeld and Rice constantly repeated the words nuclear, Saddam and Al-Qaeda to the point where, when people were polled about Saddam, respondents thought that he was with Al-Qaeda and had nuclear weapons, despite any evidence supporting these claims. www.cnn.com Obama is no different. People associate change with Obama simply because he has repeated it so many times and because he has only one White parent as opposed to two. Otherwise, we see the agenda of the central bankers, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, the military industrial complex and izrael moving full steam ahead, actually its being accelerated. Would all of this have happened under McCain? Absolutely. Eventually people must wake up to the left right (Republican Democrat) paradigm. Unless of-course that Republican or Democrat is Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich, two men of honor who stand for real change. Lets look at some of Obama's "change". ACLU on Obama's continuance of torture and secret kidnappings: www.aclu.org Obama orders missile strikes inside of Pakistan: www.guardian.co.uk Who can forget the appointment of israeli citizen Rahm "my father is an Irgun terrorist" Emmanuel. Here we are clued into the coming draft and Nazi style youth brigades: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com

  3. This is the change that should have been our President: www.wimp.com

  4. Obama is better, trust me. We already have a society that is beginning to follow its own rules and regulations.

  5. Will read, but I guess you've moved from the journals to the front page!

  6. Change is a very useful word, it is always employed by politicians when they are seeking to distract their hapless masses from unpalatable realities. The unalterable truth is, this president has sworn - with deep emotion and trembling hands atop the Bible - to "uphold the Constitution Of The United States Of America" just like his happily departed predecessors. No change there then. Thus, securing/consolidating/expanding the "national interest" will continue on unabated. Domestic or foreign policies which are designed to be "ethical" will be so according to an extremely narrow interpretation of that word. Already we have borne witness to the enraged Vaticans' denunciation of the restoration of funds to groups who advise on/or perform abortions. The truth is that change cannot be effected with a system that is unchanging. A bankrupt structure must needs give rise to morally questionable policies, because all of these policies are designed to keep that structure in place. Unchanging is the hope that people invest in politicians who employ phrases/terms that capture their imagination and encapsulate their mood. And, unchanging is the shattering sense of betrayal when these fancy slogans turn out to be just that. The only One Who has the Power and Ability to effect change, and thus bring about an alteration in the destiny of humankind, is Allah The Beautiful. Without doubt, HE Knows Best, Alhamdulillah.

  7. What Muslims need to do is stop this personality worship with Obama because truly he is not going to change anything. If not, it is going to be worse than before. You need to look at the people he has in his administration and then if those people who are going to be part of deciscions on policies have the message of change, THEN, you can expect it. We need to prevent organizations from hijacking our beliefs and using it as a tool to achieve their own malicious objectives. In every video of a terroris you will see Quran and our kalma. Who is projecting this image? Well the answer lies in another question: who created and funded H/M/S and T/L|B/N? This is a game smokes and mirrors and the sooner we wake up and realize the actors behind the sooner you will be able to solve it!

  8. Jahil and ignorant they are in their approach to resolve the ills of their lives and society or maybe they are not equipped with mentality and RESOURCES to rebuttle at places such as UN, which is a joke unless you got muscle with you or behind you.....and plz dont pretend to understand American apporach and its prespective...it's a feeling and understand that can only be understood by living it not by watching tv, reading magazines or being on facebook.

  9. Change to Obama and administration doesn't mean anything its fact that this world is going to be worse and worse Obama is greater enemey of islam and muslims he is a big have two faces ... his adviser for forgein policy is more bad then Bush... He is big puppet of Zionist... his change is mean to a New world World to full fill the gap which G Bish leave for a New world order compeletation... he trully believes that Pakistan is the only country that where all unstability to world.. and they are dividing pakistan to many parts now adays full propaganda of terriosm againt pakistan... Obama financial support for campaging in the election are the bigest rich Jewish peoples in USA... he elected beacuse many peoples believes that he can do better for muslim world and for USA... but no thats all wrong its conspiracy theory.. he is changing America to NAU .. North American Union he will reverse all the Bush policies.. He wont attack Iran and nor syria He will help Iran to stand against Russia, and Syria he will attack pakistan beacuse Pakistan is the only big allied force and Economical partner of china .. he is going to attack on Sudan not for humanity crisis there.. just beacuse 70% of oil of china comes from Sudan Darfur.. and Pakistan give to china his Gawader Port to use for his profits.. Obama is the worst ever president of USA the Illuminati and secret society enter the real time dream which they were dreaming for ... and planning for 60 years.. New World Order. Obama is the biggest Satan to this whole world,..

  10. Interesting article...I agree with quite a lot of it and hope that your optimism for Obama is proven true... In this article, you need need to do a better job defining what you mean by 'they'...and you are at fault of stereotyping as well...by demonizing your 'they' with everything that's the antithesis of a free society (i.e. education, informed people, free medium). That's the Western way of negating the very real causes that are often behind acts of terrorism....ie. they are terrorists because they fear and hate our way of living.

  11. A munafiq which perfers living under a system of kufr rather than Islam does not get to call Muslims ignorant. For he/she himself is ignorant for having such mentality. May Allah (swt) guide those who are sincere.

  12. All that needs to be said. The only change Obama is going to bring is going to lead America even further into its own destruction. Sadly, Americans don't want to travel down the gravel road while the paved road leads to cliff.

  13. Zadran: Can you honestly rebuttle the world's opinion that pakistan and its various areas is where the extremists resides who are not only danger to the rest of the world but also to muslims who chooses to say "excuse me may i ask a question" Aqua, where u been bro, been a while, when they let u out?..lol

  14. this article is complete B S. A year later we can all see what a waste of space this afro american man is. Please delete it so all the users who commented on this a year ago can be spared the embarrassment of once supporting this failed man.


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