Archivado en: internacional | escrito por goleech | 07/08/2005 | 20:38

Cuánta razón tenía Noam Chomsky. El terrorismo, y el odio entre el "oeste" y el "medio oriente", ha sido fomentado y provocado por ataques previos de los que ahora son las "víctimas". Obviamente no se justifica el uso de la violencia y masacre en contra de civiles inocentes, pero ¿no lo fueron también las muertes de civiles durante la invasión angloestadunidense de Irak en 2003, los niños destrozados por las bombas de racimo, los innumerables iraquíes inocentes muertos a tiros en los puestos de control del ejército estadunidense?, se pregunta Robert Fisk.

Tan sólo el pasado Lunes 4 de julio Noam Chomsky escribía:

In his June 28 speech, President Bush asserted that the invasion of Iraq was undertaken as part of "a global war against terror" that the United States is waging. In reality, as anticipated, the invasion increased the threat of terror, perhaps significantly.

Acciones como la guerra ilegal en Iraq, entre muchas otras atrocidades del pasado, han fomentado el odio y racismo entre los hombres. Particularmente el mundo Árabe/Musulmán y el Blanco/Occidental. El errorismo de estado se combate con terrorismo, tal parece ser la constante en los útlimos años.

Lo más triste de todo es que no se ve para cuándo el terror, en cualquiera de sus formas, pueda parar. Y mientras tanto la sociedad seguirá dividida, catalogada y enfrentada a causa de ataques ilegales y venganzas:

There were reports of sporadic revenge attacks against Muslims, after the bombings were ascribed by British authorities to Islamic terrorists.

Massoud Shadjareh, chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, said his organization had recorded a dozen incidents against Muslims since Thursday, including firebombings of a mosque in Leeds and a Sikh temple in London. "As for e-mails and hate phone calls," he said, "there's no point in counting."

Earlier, Muslim groups in Leeds wrote to Prime Minister Tony Blair expressing their "deepest anger and sympathy at the terrible atrocities committed in London yesterday."

"If London could survive the Blitz, it can survive four miserable events like this," said Mr. Blair. He spoke of "this wonderful great diverse city" and called London and Britain "one united community against atrocity."

But Mr. Shadjareh, of the Islamic association, said Muslims were worried that right-wing Britons might seek reprisals. "We have got extreme elements who are going to try something in the next few days, and we are asking the community to take precautions, especially women and children," he said.

The New York Times, 9 de julio de 2005