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BY ADAM AZIM|DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC OPINIONS WASHINGTON DC| 18TH NOV 2016
There are two questions that need to be asked in order to determine the identity of Europe: 1) What is Europe? And the second question is 2) Where is Europe? There are obviously all kinds of ideas thrown around about the nature of Europe. Some have called Europe “a republic”. Others are bogged down on the divisions of Europe rather than the things that make Europe bigger than what it seems to some people.
In reality, Europe now begins in Vancouver and ends in Peshawar. Those peoples who can really be considered “Non-European” are the native and aboriginal peoples of the Americas and Australia, the Berbers and peoples of Sub-Saharan origin in Africa, the Bedouin Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula, the Dravidian peoples of modern-day Pakistan and India, the Mongols as well as peoples of Mongolian descent, the various tribes that comprise of what is now modern-day China, the various nations of the modern-day ASEAN organization, as well as Korea, Japan, and the island peoples of the Asia-Pacific region. Turkey, according to Brzezinski, is a part of Europe.
What characterizes the relations between European and Non-European peoples in today’s world is interconnection and interdependence. Some, but not all Americans, think they are self-sufficient, which is wrong. The path to today’s globalized and interconnected world had been mentioned in one of Immanuel Kant’s essays written a few centuries ago titled “To Eternal Peace”, and it was an essay I emphasized to a group of Dutch academics in the Summer of 2015. I presented an essay to the Dutch and I gave a short presentation to them in The Hague, and the essay I wrote and presented can be found here in The International Influence. The Dutch did not take what I presented seriously, but as Henry Kissinger said, “that’s their loss.”
What Europe lacks and what most Non-European peoples probably have is a system based on what is known as “Structural Functionalism”, which is essentially an explanation for everything that actually exists and has been carried on through the School and Order of Adam and Eve of Hebron, and then through Seth of Mosul (Son of Adam and Eve of Hebron), and this system was later recovered by Thales of Miletus as Ancient Egypt, the Levantine powers, and Mesopotamian powers collapsed and Persia grew powerful due to the divine inspiration provided to Cyrus the Great by Zoroaster of Northern Afghanistan. After Thales of Miletus came Epicurus of Samos, and then much of the substance for structural functionalism transferred to Spinoza of Holland and then in recent times fell into the hands of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Afghanistan, who was assassinated by two Arab suicide bombers on September 9, 2001 in Northern Afghanistan. The individuals within the School and Order of Adam and Eve of Hebron throughout history are known in the Islamic religion as “Qutb”, which translates into “spiritual poles” on Planet Earth and who are directly connected to God’s throne on the Ninth and final Heaven. Their existence is the sole reason why Planet Earth and its contents exist. There were numerous “Qutb” on the path to Massoud. The decrease and the loss of “Qutb” on Planet Earth is directly correlated with the increase of killing and conflict, and it is killing and conflict that is of greater criminality than blasphemy in the Islamic religion. The pharaoh of Egypt committed blasphemous acts on numerous occasions but was granted multiple chances to reform. It was only until the pharaoh of Egypt pursued to kill Moses and his people when God decided to drown and punish the pharaoh. God granted King Solomon a kingdom on Planet Earth that no man has ever been able to have since, because he made a vow to God that he would sacrifice his desire for racehorses.
The School and Order of Adam and Eve of Hebron stood in staunch opposition to the school of Thucydides and Machiavelli, contributors to what is now known as the “atheist realist” school of thought. Much of what the School and Order of Adam and Eve of Hebron has produced in terms of work has either been completely destroyed or lost in translation. But the revival and the resuscitation came with the revelation of the Holy Qur’an from God to the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) beginning in 610 AD and has been preserved as a result of a miracle ever since. It was Sir Bertrand Russell of Britain who declared Confucius, The Holy Qur’an, and Marx to be the three most sacred books of mankind. Locke of Britain, who was the inspiration to Jefferson in America, once said: There are thousands of ways to obtain riches. But there is only one way to Heaven.” Jefferson, in turn, gave Muslims the right to practice their religion in the State of Virginia because there is a real possibility that Jefferson had a gut feeling that it would be a Muslim who would eventually carry on the torch of “structural functionalism” in the United States (Read Denise Spellberg’s book on Jefferson and Islam for hints).
What united the territories spanning Vancouver to Peshawar is a “United Zoroastrianism” ending with Muhammad of Mecca in the 7th century AD. The “republic” that the Greeks envisioned as being the handful of individuals who would uphold the principles of this “nation” is what the followers of Muhammad called the “ummah”. Friendship, as revealed to Epicurus of Samos, would be the greatest virtue trumping tribe, family, relatives, and common perceptions of “national identity”. The Afghans have an expression that relates to what Epicurus revealed: “It’s me and my brother against my family, and it’s my family against my tribe, and it’s my tribe against my province, and it’s my province against my nation.”
Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the first male to convert to the teachings of Muhammad of Mecca at the tender age of thirteen, said: “Brotherhood in humanity is greater than brotherhood in religion.” The “ummah” as being the international community envisioned by Muhammad of Mecca, has as its main responsibility the maintenance of a global governance system advanced by the proponents of Erasmus of Rotterdam. Poland coincidentally reached the peak of its empire in Europe when its relations with Muslims were at their best. When the Ottomans were beginning to collapse in Eastern Europe before World War I, it was mentioned by Dr. Timothy Winter that a number of Turks were more concerned about the bloodshed that would occur in Eastern Europe after they withdrew their maintenance of peace and order in the Slavic regions of Eastern Europe than about their imperial possessions. Eastern Europe’s longest period of peace was thus the result of Islamic influence. Vladimir Putin recently inaugurated one of Europe’s largest and architecturally aesthetic mosques in Moscow in a show of goodwill to Muslims living under Russian rule.
But Europe’s staunchest proponent and advocate of Muhammad’s vision was Thomas Carlyle of Britain. Only in recent years has there been a growing belief in the research community that Muhammad was not “semitic” but was actually “Aryan”, and this might explain the historic divide between the Hashemite Arab group that produced Muhammad and the Bedouin Arab peoples that stood in opposition to Muhammad’s vision for quite some time. Otto Weininger, an Austrian Jewish philosopher and intellectual in the early 1900’s, also defended Muhammad’s Aryan background.
The people who are known as “Jews” are considered by the Holy Qur’an as “The Children of Israel”, and are not considered “Jewish”. The “Jews” were and are Aryan peoples who were later considered “semitic” by the prevailing intellectual discourse in Europe after the birth of what is known as the “European Enlightenment”. The prevailing intellectual discourse in Europe did affect Weininger’s ideas about the Children of Israel. The “re-aryanization” of Jewish religious and intellectual discourse gained momentum with Karl Marx of Germany. Ludwig Von Wittgenstein, the leading Jewish philosopher of his time in Europe based out of Austria, seemed to have converted to Irfan, a spiritual movement that began in the Khorasan region of modern-day Iran and Afghanistan.
The desire to connect Adam and Eve of Hebron and Seth of Mosul could be a driving force behind the concept of what is known as “Greater Israel”. This idea of a “Greater Israel” does not seem to face as much opposition from Muslim nations as it did in the past, given the rise of Arab extremism in the form of ISIS. At this point in time, there is probably greater opposition to the idea of a “Greater Israel” from the Quartet than from Muslims. ISIS, with the support of oil-rich Arab countries, destroyed the shrine of Prophet Seth in Mosul in 2014, which sparked outrage in Iran as well as amongst Shia Muslims. The destruction of Prophet Seth’s shrine in Mosul prompted Shia militias to organize a campaign against ISIS in Mosul that is occurring at this moment.
Fortunately, not all is lost. As Rumi wrote: “When we are dead, seek not our tombs, but instead find us in the Hearts of men.” If Israel is truly committed to peace in the Middle East as it says it is, it needs to back its words with action immediately by assisting Muslims in the fight against ISIS. Otherwise, the whole world will begin to doubt Israel’s commitment to world peace and the world will arrive at the conclusion that Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s promise to terrorize the whole world was serious. No Israeli can survive without its Non-Israeli neighbors, and none of Israel’s neighbors can survive without Israel, especially with the slow but sure rise of “anti-semitic” sentiment in Europe and America. A source I had in Washington, DC, once told me that the United States prevented a peace deal that was supposed to be signed between Israel and the Assad government in 2010 most likely due to pressure from Saudi Arabia on the United States. China will replace the American presence in the Middle East in a matter of time due to the shortage of American resources and willpower to tame the growing corruption stemming from the Middle East. China is building a major military base along the coast of Western Pakistan that will put Chinese forces on a direct path through the Indian Ocean toward the Middle East and Persian Gulf oil and natural gas.
The French have long had a fascination with Muhammad of Mecca, but the French could not embrace his vision due to French disillusionment with religion after two major world wars that were preceded by a number of “religious wars” in Europe. These wars in Europe led to the resuscitation of retrogressive Frankish thought that reincarnated Charlemagne in the form of Charles De Gaulle. French “existentialist” thought developed and became rich with the varied contributions of Rousseau, Baudelaire, Camus, Sartre, and Ali Shariati in an effort to provide an alternative to the Charlemagnian wing of French society sustained by the persona of De Gaulle. Ahmad Shah Massoud, a leading Afghan freedom fighter of the late 20thCentury who sought to eradicate extremism in all its forms in Afghanistan, was a graduate of the French lycee Isteghlal in Kabul and was hailed by the French as a champion and hero of European revolutionary thought and peoples.
The creation of the world as a “fatherland for all” is the responsibility of the “United Aryan Zoroastrian” peoples that cover territories stretching from Vancouver to Peshawar. Territorial borders drawn by the elites of the past became part of what is known as a “constructed identity”. A narrower identity that discriminates based on culture (which is never static due to the world automatically becoming smaller as described by Kant) and a border are elements of a “constructed identity” that opposes the comprehensive one that is real. Wittgenstein’s “Language Games” is one refutation of “constructed” identities. The call by Epicurus of Samos to maximize pleasure and minimize pain is mistaken for hedonism by the European masses. Sir Bertrand Russell equates pleasure to the transformation of pain into art. With pleasure as art, and with art being the highest form of culture, it leads to Weininger’s assertion that culture is the womb for the insertion of religion. Thus, pleasure becomes the antithesis of hedonism.
The starting point for “United Aryan Zoroastrianism” was to ensure economic rights for the masses so that there would be a political transcendence as described by Locke and Jefferson that would ultimately lead to a social transformation within Aryan peoples and afterward this social transformation of Aryan peoples would enable fruitful social relations not only between Aryan and European peoples, but with Non-European peoples as well. The final destination of world politics is divinely inspired and love-based social activity and relations between all people, according to Erasmus.
But the social transformation that is the final objective of politics between European peoples never occurred due to two major world wars in the 20th century as well as many European wars beforehand, and as a result European peoples went back to square one per se and are now scrambling to re-secure basic economic rights. There are essentially two things that affect what goes on in a country: 1) People, and 2) international influence. Politics, according to Marx, is the sole emancipation of man because politics is the sole method of self-purification before our ultimate return to God. What Marx mentioned as “emancipation” meant emancipation from worldly desires. The inability of European peoples to “emancipate” themselves in the Marxist context is the cause of war and instability all throughout the world. The rise of right-wing extreme elements in Russia in 2000 with the rise of Vladimir Putin began at a time when right-wing extreme elements were being targeted in Afghanistan by the European Union with the guidance of Ahmad Shah Massoud. There was a delay in the “domino effect” to take place upon right-wing extreme forces in Europe due to U.S. intervention in Western Europe since World War II, but the “domino effect” is now taking place. While the first domino to fall was Russia in 2000, the second to fall was Poland over the last couple of years. Ukraine fell in 2014. Then Hungary fell. And then came the fall of Britain in 2016 by virtue of its “Brexit” referendum. Britain and France still have hidden and unforgotten beef with each other as a result of Canada and the United States stemming mainly from the “Seven Years War” of North America at around the middle part of the 18th century and is now being exacerbated due to the “Alberta Question”. The “Brexit” referendum indirectly put Theresa May into 10 Downing Street. The British people did not elect her. The conservatives installed her. The recent events in Britain correlated with the rise in poll numbers for right-wing extremist elements in Germany. The various political parties in Spain literally handed the government to its right-wing even though it did not win the elections. Moldova, with its dominant Russian community, fell to right-wing forces a few days ago. Now, there is a possibility that Austria will fall in about a year’s time, and also France, and then Germany in reaction to Russia as well as Britain and France, and then the Netherlands.
According to De Tocqueville, the destiny of the “Europe” he saw was in the hands of the United States and Russia. But the “Europe” that really exists means that the fate of the entire world is now in the hands of the United States and Russia. The importance of this duty and the obligation that these two countries have to the international community has been ignored and neglected by both sides due to petty politics. Paul Pillar, a former CIA agent and analyst, argues that the “west” is responsible and is to blame for the beef that started with Russia. Could Paul Pillar be correct? Is it not a sign that Paul Pillar is correct when looking at the distribution of bread between Vienna and Budapest after World War II as recorded by E.H. Carr? Why is it that “Romanticism” failed in Germany as chronicled by Rudiger Safranski? Are these not legitimate reasons to support Paul Pillar’s argument?
What brought America to its knees economically these last few years has been the result of very bad advisers and very bad leadership over the course of the past 25 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. There were many people around the world who wanted to see the United States fall. But the world needs a moral hegemon, according to Kant, and it was only the United States who was able to provide that kind of leadership because the United States was the only nation in the world whose basic identity is a repudiation of the “constructed identity” of the old world. That is why the United States had so much respect from common folks in the Muslim world for such a long time until things changed recently. The United States once stood for a cause that is bigger than oil and natural gas. Everyone knows that Russia is doing what it is doing in the Middle East because of oil and natural gas and also to position itself in a war that it is trying to create with Europe. What Afghans believe is that the oil and natural gas that sits within Russia’s borders is now moving southward into Afghanistan and Central Asia beneath the earth’s crust. Peter Zeihan also noted in his book titled The Accidental Superpower that Turkish peoples like the Tatars are the ones who actually reside in the oil-rich and gas-rich territories within Russia’s borders and they were colonized by ethnic Russians many years ago and many people would argue that those Turkish territories do not belong to ethnic Russians. It is because of oil and natural gas slipping away from these Turkish territories within Russia’s borders that prompted Medvedev to say recently that ethnic Russians may no longer exist anymore. Russian leaders know that this is happening, but they do not want to admit this.
Putin is a man of two extremes, and this bipolar psychology is reflected in what is going on in the Middle East right now. He does not see a middle path. Once a soviet realist atheist, he is now a Christian impostor. What Putin needs to learn is that had it not been for the misinterpretation of the rules of fasting by the Russian Czar Vladimir a few centuries ago, he would have made Islam the state religion of Russia. Putin is probably the last Charlemagne of history, and if the world finds a way to undermine Putin’s power, it will bring about Fukuyama’s “End of History”. As I noted this past June in a post titled “Another Thought on China”, Russia is the main reason why U.S. grand strategy has not worked in the world, not China. This is something Kissinger confirmed in his book titled World Order. There was an international poll a few years ago that must have had something to do with the BBC, and people were asked which countries they hated the most. The four countries that people around the world hated the most were Israel, Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea. What do these four countries have in common? The answer is their relationship with Russia. Soviet atheist realism is not only a political movement that stems from the School and Order of Thucydides and Machiavelli, but it is also an art form that the United States tried to combat through the likes of Jackson Pollack during the Cold War. It was just recently that Vladimir Putin claimed Russia is a “self-sufficient” nation and can continue to be that way as long as it can maintain its “security”. Putin’s argument is not only ludicrous, but also blasphemous, given that we live in an interconnected and interdependent world. When I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski in March of 2015, I asked him how would it be possible to break the connection between Russia and Iran. He summed up the answer in one word: China.
BBC recently reported the revival of Kyrgyz religion and culture after the demise of the Soviet Union. China’s massive land purchases inside of Russia is scaring Putin’s government. BBC also did research on which countries in Western and Eastern Europe are most friendly to immigrants. The research found that Spain is the most friendly and open to the idea of immigration, whereas Russia is least friendly and open to immigrants. While there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that the Russians were behind the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud, it is strange that Yeltsin handed power to Putin at a time when Massoud was planning the overthrow of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in collaboration with the United States and the European Union. Putin had a vendetta against Massoud because Massoud did not allow the Russians to advance on Afghan soil and take Pakistan in the 1980’s. Pakistan’s public had already succumbed to the Russians, and the Pakistani youth were yearning for the sovietization of their country. Abdullah Abdullah and Burhanuddin Rabbani were the two figures nearest to Massoud who may have plotted with Putin. I met a young and very bright Afghan writer in Washington, DC once, and he told me that Abdullah Abdullah would kill his own mother for money and power, let alone kill Massoud. Burhanuddin Rabbani is dead and will now have to answer to God. Also, what disturbed me recently was something I heard from that Kremlin spin master who frequently attends BBC’s “Dateline London”. Although he was arguing that the bombing of Aleppo was justified, he denounced the U.S. campaign in Mosul to root out ISIS. That was the biggest mistake that the Kremlin spin master on BBC could make. As I said before, its worse than a sin, it’s a mistake.
Thus, the biggest mistake that the Trump administration can make is to take Nigel Farage’s advice to abandon its commitments to Europe. Nigel Farage, by convincing America that its best interests rest outside of Europe, has essentially cleared the way for Russia to slowly pummel Europe and Germany and take revenge for over 20 million or so Russian and British lives combined that Germany is said to have taken away during World War II and to take revenge for the economic sanctions on Russia that Germany supported in recent times. But Putin should understand that most of the deaths in Russia were the result of Stalin. America might think that after abandoning its commitments to Europe, it will then be free to turn to Africa, Latin America, The Middle East, and Asia to stimulate its economy. This is an economic policy that Barack Obama and Paul Ryan have already put into motion through their negotiations with China and India. Paul Ryan gave Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi such a warm reception at Capitol Hill that Indians laughed and scoffed at Theresa May when she could not match America’s bid during a very dry and lame visit to India soon after the election of Donald Trump. India is now out of Russia’s grip, thanks to Narendra Modi. FDR was the reason why the European Union got created in the first place because he had a cultural connection with Europe. Now, people in America simply don’t care about the fate of the European Union. The defense system that NATO was supposed to have placed in Eastern Europe has essentially been breached by Russia and now there are very lethal Russian weapons that are stationed in Kaliningrad and are within striking distance of Berlin.
Scandinavian countries have already armed and trained themselves in Afghanistan in case of Russian retribution against Scandinavia for having cooperated with America over the last few years. Scandinavian countries are ahead of Germany in preparing for what might be Eastern Europe’s attempts to take revenge against Western Europe. Eastern Europe can and might unite under Russian leadership because according to what E.H. Carr recorded, Polish and Russian military cooperation was in the works and has always been on the table per se since World War II. If the United States does not back its commitments to Germany, Russians might pressure Scandinavia to turn their guns against Germany through nuclear intimidation.
Henry Kissinger’s “promised land” of world politics as described in World Order is far from being reached at this moment, and a lot of the failures in the world are due to what President Barack Obama called “crude nationalism” in his recent visit to Greece. America did not give Muslims and the Abrahamic religion of Islam the respect they deserved over the past twenty years or so, and that is why Russia and China have been able to advance against America as far as the western hemisphere. There are even talks between Russia and Cuba for a renewal of a “Cuban Missile Crisis” as reported by the BBC. There is a poem whose author I cannot remember, and it states:
Oh! If only all men were wise,
And all of them meant well!
The earth to them would be paradise,
But now it is mostly hell.
But on the flipside, there is hope. As Professor Khalilullah Khalili, an Afghan poet and thinker, once wrote:
“The heart of the Believer,
Disdains fear of stormy events.
The Believer’s heart knows
Only one ship captain: God.”
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