By M D Nalapat
The need is to prevent the stabilising of a Wahhabi outpost already breeding dozens of ISIS fighters at the trade routes of the western reaches of the Indo-Pacific.
Barack Obama’s
envoy to the UN, Samantha Power, concretized the concept of the
“Responsibility to Protect”. She meant protect vulnerable populations
that are thrown into agony by unscrupulous regime elements oblivious to
moral considerations. Unfortunately, Ms Power allowed her imagination
rather than her intellect to determine exactly who such miscreants were,
with the result that she is among those directly responsible for the
hell that Libya and subsequently Syria has become. Muammar Gaddafi was
opposed to India, he even favoured the delinking of Kashmir from the
Union. However, as his Green Book elucidates, he favoured a moderate,
syncretic interpretation of a noble faith that has systematically been
sought to be subverted by the twin philosophies of Wahhabism and
Khomeinism. As a consequence, Colonel Gaddafi ensured that Al Qaeda was
emasculated throughout Libya, while the Wahhabis remained in a weakened
state until they were handed over much larger doses than usual of cash
and weapons by the GCC and NATO since the beginning of 2011. What
followed was predicted (and ignored by the protagonists of intervention)
in early 2011 itself by this columnist, which was the meltdown of Libya
into a congeries of warlord states; the ascent of Wahhabism and its
terror auxiliaries ; and a flood of human beings escaping into Europe.
Subsequently, a similar mistake was made in Syria, the consequence of
which is the destruction of that country because of the errors made by
NATO “experts”, who seem unable to escape from the historical tradition
of European powers coddling the Wahhabis rather than the moderate
elements of local populations. Intervention based on the Responsibility
to Protect must be on the basis of support for moderates and not
extremists, else a situation will get created similar to that prevailing
in Syria, where those groups funded and armed by NATO are
systematically killing Christians, Shia and Druze within the areas they
control as a consequence of help from the GCC-NATO alliance. Fortunately
for the fanatics, Christians in the US or Europe seem unmoved by the
Calvary of their co-religionists in Syria, and are still pressing for
the elimination of Bashar Assad, in whose zone alone Christians and
other minorities are safe in what was once a state named Syria. Should
they succeed, the genocide of Christians, Shia and Druze at the hands of
NATO-backed forces will be complete.
The global battle against Wahhabism needs
to be won if international prosperity and stability are to be ensured,
especially in the Middle East. This war is being courageously led by no
less an individual than Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman of Saudi
Arabia. In Syria and Iraq, a single squadron each of the air warriors of
the IAF could have assisted substantially in eradicating ISIS nests,
but such a chance to demonstrate concrete commitment to the war on
extremism has been lost. In contrast, Russia under Vladimir Putin seized
the opportunity and sent two squadrons to Syria, which altered the
course of the war and re-established Moscow as a global Big Power. But
in India, even in Kashmir, Wahhabi fanatics are allowed to live in
luxury and propagate their creed. The BJP even ensured that a soft
separatist party was enabled to hold state power in Srinagar through
their support, until its Vajpayee-inspired patience fortunately snapped a
few months ago. Since 2013, an overtly Wahhabi cabal has seized power
in the Maldives, imprisoned the Chief Justice as well as numerous
moderate leaders, and imposed a Wahhabi regimen on a moderate people.
Telephone and personal contact between the Wahhabis now ruling the
Maldives and their co-fanatics in Pakistan (especially within the
uniformed services) have increased exponentially for the past five
years. Popular leaders of the island nation have repeatedly called for
intervention by India to rescue the Maldives from Wahhabi darkness, yet
they have been publicly and privately told by authorities here to “keep
quiet” so as not to provoke the Wahhabi establishment in Male. Because
Donald J. Trump, and not Hillary R. Clinton, was elected the President
of the US on 8 November 2016, India will be assured of US backing for
armed intervention designed to save the Maldives from the ongoing rush
towards GHQ-controlled and Wahhabi-funded disaster. Prime Minister Modi
could talk to his good friend, President Xi Jinping, and assure him that
Chinese interests will be far safer under moderate than under fanatic
rule, and given the growing warmth between the two sides in the context
of Modi’s call in Singapore for an “inclusive” Indo-Pacific, Beijing is
unlikely to jeopardise its potentially huge commercial, business and
other relationships with India by doing what GHQ Rawalpindi wants, which
is to send the PLA to challenge Indian forces temporarily needed for
protecting the Maldivian people.
The September election in the Maldives
will be what elections are in states ruled by Wahhabis, which is a
caricature of democracy that reflects not the will of the people but the
grip of an extremist cabal over the election process. Once a captive
Election Commission (and a now enslaved Court) declares the inevitable
verdict claiming victory for forcibly-installed President Abdulla
Yameen, Prime Minister Narendra Modi must act. The Samantha Powers of
the world may not believe that those with a tan have an equal right to
enforce the doctrine of protection of the vulnerable as themselves, but
such prejudices are irrelevant. The need is to prevent the stabilising
of a Wahhabi outpost already breeding dozens of ISIS fighters at the
very jugular of the trade routes of the western reaches of the
Indo-Pacific.
No comments:
Post a Comment