Cape Argus

Western ‘success’ was built on slavery, theft

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I HAVE said it many times before and I will say it again. Nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes.

However, when a person or community or society or nation continues to engage in the same crime then it cannot be held as an error of judgement or lapse of consciousn­ess but rather as a behaviour trait.

For example, since World War II there have been 72 military interventi­ons by the US and its allies.

This includes Afghanista­n, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guyana, Cambodia, Congo, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippine­s, Uruguay, Seychelles, Somalia, Surinam, Syria, Yemen and Zaire.

The list of murderous crimes and atrocities goes on and on.

Those who believe the US and its allies embody human dignity must study history.

The US’s treatment of its indigenous people was worse than how South African whites treated blacks.

It was the “West” that transporte­d people to create the world we live in today.

There were no Africans in America until free labour on the plantation­s was needed.

Africans may have lagged behind in technology, but was it necessary to enslave millions so that a few people could live in luxury?

The “West” racial issue is a direct result of destroying African progress to enrich Western progress.

Some Western nations that exist in opulence claim their success is achieved by their secular values.

This is false. “Western” success was built on slavery and stealing the wealth of others.

The Belgians turned the Congo into “hell on earth” and maintain a presence in the Congo at the expense of the subjugated blacks.

The CIA killed Patricia Lumumba and installed the dictator Mobutu. Lumumba wanted a free and thriving Africa, but the US and its Western allies do not want a successful Africa.

The relentless “interventi­ons” by the so-called secular “West” in the name of human rights and freedom is a “fake front” to kill, rape, plunder and subjugate.

The “West” has always operated with racism where people are judged by skin colour and the law of the jungle takes priority.

We need to expose the “West” for its hypocrisy.

There is nothing Christian about the overall actions of the “West”.

There is no way on Earth that Jesus Christ would endorse the actions of the “West”.

What is required is for each individual to ask themselves: how would Moses the friend of the Creator, Jesus the Messiah and Muhammad the Emissary, respond to our current global situation.

CLLR YAGYAH ADAMS | Cape Muslim Congress

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