2001 Literary
Nobel Prize
has chilling view of Islam
If religion offers paradise, Naipaul says, then the flock tends
to be blindly fanatic. He also says that oil money of the 70s
gave the illusion that power had come to the Islamic religion.
Both observations
melted, clearly explain the roots of the first "jihad war"
of this Century. The world is now overwhelmed by the fear of Global
Islamic terrorism.
To get a better
understanding of Islam, or to grasp the real "weltanschaung"
of the geopolitical importance of the arab-Islamic world (more
than a Billion people spread over all Continents), you have to
read V.S. Naipaul, who is the 2001 Nobel Prize of Literature.
Even if news of his nomination by the Nobel Prize Swedish Academy
was shadowed by the bangs, rages and fury unleashed by the terrorist
attack against USA on 9-11, Naipaul's insight of contemporary
Islam helps to understand the current crisis.
Naipaul was born in Trinidad-Tobago in the Caribbean. Of Hindu
origin, he belongs to that brilliant elite of Anglo-hindu intellectuals
started by Rabrindanath Tagore in the 19th century, epitomized
by Rudyard Kipling, with Modern expressions in contemporary Arts,
letters and global ideas in personalities such as Ben Kingsley,
Ravi Bandra, Salman Rushdie and others who are a simbiosis ot
their ancestral Vedanta Hindu culture and British sofistication
- and snobbery.
Living together
under Brtish rule for Ceuturies as good or bad neighbors, even
as allied forces during the long fight against colonialist powerunder
the leadership of India's Mahatma Gandhi, for independence from
British colonial dominion, Hindus and Muslims know each other
very well. But don't tolerate each other. However, the more contemplative
atittude of Hindus, facilitates to some of these writers, a more
candid, cooler vision of Islam and the global threat of Islam
or of some of Islam Califas such as Ossama Bin Laden
The description
of the growth of Islam in the world by Naipaul is most illuminating
and should be read by all who are interested in this problem of
Afganistan. President George Bush and his closests advisers included.
It is already
common knowledge that in many ways Ossama and the Talilan are
really offsprings of U.S.foreign policy -via CIA- when the feared
enemy was the Soviet Union invason of Afganistan during Reagan's
frantic Cold War Policy.
In this first
War of the 21st Century, Bush, Blair and others have been eager
to define the enemy just as terrorists to avoid a global conflict
with the Arab world they insist that this is not a war against
Islam.
But Naipaul, bluntly and reallistically believes and reminds us
that Islam is a conquerors fanatic religion with the sacred and
secret aim of domination of the Planet in this Millenieum conquering
the world, at least according to teachings in Pakistan's "Madrassas"-academies
of warriors-.
Ossama Bin
Laden is not a lonely guy. In Pakistan, Naipaul realizes, thousands
are deaming to be like Ossama. Many of them are convert and dream
with life in paradise. Thousands graduate of the Madrassas, including
some military from Pakistan. Actually, most Madrassas are financed
by Oil rich Saudi Arabia . And most madrassas are in Pakistan,
already a nuclear power.
BIP