If we want to counteract an agenda of war and oppression, lies and deceptions, we need to overcome our tendency to fall for sectarian hate-mongering. This is exactly the way of how we are being manipulated.

Everybody can be manipulated regardless of faith or non-faith, religious people as well as secular, as we have seen in the anti-Vietnam-war movement in the past as well as in the human-right movements of the present.

Today secular NGOs like Amnesty International provide the cover for “humanitarian” wars as the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 and of Libya last year, after western intelligence agencies had before been arming violent insurgencies for many years. The same is happening in Syria right now. A fanatical intolerant and reactionary group of Islamists, who commit brutal terrorist acts against civilians is being armed by NATO, Saudi and Israeli agents. At the same time the Syrian government is being demonized by Amnesty and other “humanitarians” in order to demand a no-fly zone or protected area around Syria´s borders from where the terrorists can operate. Syria´s defence of itself against foreign sponsored terrorists would then later on be used as a justification for a potential NATO invasion.

The same pattern is repeated over and over again. A minority in a country with a taste for power or possibly even with genuine grievances is encouraged, supported and armed to rise up against the majority and fight an armed insurgency against a government, that is too independent from western control for the taste of our financial elites. If and when this minority eventually succeeds to overpower said government its members will then become a privileged economic and at the same time a very weak political ruling class, whose rule is totally dependent on a continued military support from their imperial masters.

This is not a new game, it has been played by imperial powers for many centuries.

One blatant example of the successful use of this tactic was the British sponsored creation of the Wahhabi Islamic sect in connection with the rise and support of the Saudi monarchy.

A British spy, code-named Hempher, convinced an Islamic preacher by the name of Ibn Abdul-Wahhab to join forces with a sheikh named Mohammed Al-Saud to spread a kind of puritanic Islam which sees all other Muslims as infidels. The British aim to create trouble within the Islamic population of the Turkish Ottoman Empire and so destroy it from within.

The British then armed and financed a mercenary army under the leadership of Al-Saud to pillage and rape themselves through Arab lands, breaking every Islamic rule of limited warfare in the process, while damaging and even destroying important Islamic holy sites. At their first attempts of conquest Al-Saud and his mercenary army was defeated twice by Ottoman troops. But being able to retreat under British protection, they finally succeeded in conquering large parts of the Arabian peninsula, which is now called Saudi-Arabia.

The Saudi royals who from the very beginning of their rule had lived lives of un-Islamic sexual decadence were disregarding many other Islamic laws, like the ban on the use of mind-altering substances as well. But still they demanded their non-rich subjects to live by the strict rules of Wahhabi Islam. These rules were and are still enforced through draconian punishments. While the Saudi royals are living the life-style of the western ultra-rich, they have been through all the years of their rule staunch supporters and facilitators of western imperial interests. At first those interests were British and later on they were American and Israeli.

It is on behalf of British and American powers that the Saudi regime financed and armed Islamic organizations,like the Mujaheddin, the Taliban and the Salafi movements which embrace doctrines derived from Wahhabi Islam.

The aim is on the one side to undermine and destroy countries in the Islamic world which are not completely under the rule of western elites, and on the other side to create a negative image of Islam in the west to justify a war on Islamic countries as a “war on terrorism” or declaring “a clash of civilizations“.

The problem therefor has never been an inherent violent and backward Islam against an enlightened and democratic west but rather the manipulation of small groups of disenfranchised Muslims by non-Islamic powers for those power’s own nefarious purposes.

After the demise of the British Empire the tactic of “divide and conquer” was adopted by the rulers of the next rising world empire, the United States of America. And it became standard procedure for most western intelligence agencies, both the ones that operate externally like the CIA and as well as the internal ones like the FBI.

Most people know nowadays about the FBI´s COINTELPRO operations that send agents into many grass-root groups, among others into anti-Vietnam-war and civil-rights groups. The aim was to create divisions and infighting within those groups while radicalizing the parts that splintered off them to the point where they became violent. Both the infighting as well as the violence turned large parts of the general population against the movements and made them so less effective. Fractured and no longer supported by the public they were also no longer a threat to the American power-elites.

There is, however, an operation that started long before the FBI existed.The aim of this operation is to neutralizing and redefining a certain group by totally controlling part of it. The method to do that is very similar to the one used at the manipulated emergence of the Wahabi sect in Islam. Only this time the target is Christianity.

Zionism, the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine has always been a tool to be used by imperial powers for greater influence in and eventually a total take-over of the Middle East. The first to propose a Jewish homeland in Palestine for imperial purposes was the French Emperor Napoleon. After his defeat British imperialists took up the idea of Zionism as tool for securing and advancing the Empire. These were men like Shaftesbury, Palmerston and Balfour.

The Zionist movement was then furthered by the richest financial family in the world, the Rothschilds, who had their own agenda in wanting to create a Jewish state in Palestine. The Scofield bible, which reinterpreted Christian doctrine and systematically bound it to Zionism was published by the Rothschild controlled Oxford University Press in 1909 and revised in 1917. This publishing house that never before had printed any form of Christian literature, still has the sole copy-right to this bible and has done several more revisions since the first then.

In the 1970s and 1980s Christian Zionism got a large boom by the tele-evangelitst movement. The most popular of those evangelists,men like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, were directly supported by the state of Israel.

During those decades new ideas about life-styles as well as a large influx of mind-altering drugs had caused painful problems in many families, leading often to their total break-down. This produced fear and rising insecurity in many people.

Conservatives blamed those problems on the sexual liberation movement. Many also saw them as a sign of an imminent apocalypse. They saw the traditional churches with their more tolerant and often even laissez faire attitude towards sexual acts outside marriage as incompetent and unable to counteract the problems. And so, spurned by charismatic preachers, the trend went to the more fundamentalistic Christian movements. Even some people who themselves had once been part of the liberal left were drawn to those movements after having experienced chaos in their lives due to their lifestyle choices, because these churches promised to every individual a chance for a new start, a clean slate,a chance to be born again, something that felt for many like a new lease on life.

The spiritual- and the community-work and the strict rules of those churches have indeed helped many individual people and have stabilized many families. But all the help comes with strings attached.

To be a faithful member of these churches you have to show total commitment to the state of Israel and full support for all of Israel’s wars and all of Israel´s oppressive anti-Palestinian policies, assuming they will increase Israel’s security. Believing they watch the fulfillment of scripture and the prelude to Armageddon and Christ’s second coming, Israel has become more important to Christian Zionists than their own country.

And while most other churches have large anti-war wings among the clergy and the lay people, Christian Zionist churches support all American and NATO wars as well, not understanding that they are fought for the sole purpose of increasing the power and control of global financial and corporate elites over the rest of the world.

Once again, just as with Islam before, the problem here is not and never was Christianity and the Christian faith per se, but a manipulation of Christians by secular power-brokers and non-Christians to further the aims of powerful imperialists.

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