Terrorism has changed the way the
world interacts and we even have a
new moniker to add to our many new
words – Islamophobia.
communist uprising. Today the
Chinese although they have sanitized
their atrocities are still a hated and
feared nation in the Far East.
Ochieng has tried to unsuccessfully
argue with white friends that
Moslems are not terrorists and the sad
fact that most current terrorists just
happen to be Moslem does not allow
the world to blanket condemn the
adherents of Islam as terrorists.
The Chinese themselves were the
target of racial discrimination
meted out by the Japanese and their
relationship to date remains tense and
wary and they look for any excuse
to squabble over territory. Such
skirmishes are ill disguised racial
tension.
What makes the matter worse is that
Islam as a religion is concentrated
around the Middle East and hence
it has become convenient to profile
an Arab as a Moslem. This has led to
unfair and unjustified condemnation
of a whole region because of a
disgruntled few.
with the whole bible dedicated to their
search for a new home it should come
to pass that they would later give rise
to Zionism and racially discriminate
against their new neighbours.
The rise of Russia was equally
accompanied by a supremacist
demeanour that overran all smaller
communities and subjugated them
to Russian values. The breakup of the
Soviet bloc attests to the inherent
tension in the union.
The Jews were the target in the rise of
the Third Reich. They were the easy
excuse to launch a plan to dominate
Europe and rid the region of all lesser
humans and create the Aryan master
race. It is evident that history was not
one of Hitler’s strong subjects.
Russia is beginning to show the same
tendencies of racial supremacy by
trying to re-annexe countries like
Ukraine and put them under Russian
control. The Russian pride wounded
by the break-up of the Soviet Union is
looking to reaffirm its global clout.
But racism is as old as the world and
every time the comity of nations
seems to bring it under control it
rears its ugly head again usually at the
behest of a demagogue who wants to
wrest power by appealing to the base
instincts of the common man.
After the abominable effort to
terminate the Jews in what Hitler
called the final solution, it is extremely
abhorent that those that survived and
were aided in founding Israel should
today display an arrogant racial bias in
their new found habitat.
In recent history we have seen the
Chinese load it over everyone in
the Far East especially during the
If we are to accept the biblical claim
that Jews were slaves in ancient Egypt
it is heartbreaking to imagine that
Ochieng shivers to imagine a scenario
where Britain is out of Europe, Trump
is the American president, Putin
with an expansionist agenda, China
determined to become a global player,
Japan abandoning its pacifist policy
and North Korea playing with nuclear
toys.
Then of course there is the despicable
slave trade that is the very cause of the
present tension in the United States.
Every conscious decision by any
community to dehumanize another
and reduce them to slavery can only
result in explosive retaliation.
When the scramble for Africa was
at its height, the demarcation of
Africa was based on a master/slave
relationship that did not see the
African as a human being but a means
of production. The resultant careless
boundaries that were drawn created
massive modern problems.
Apartheid was perhaps the worst
example of open racialism and had no
apologies in building an economy based
on white privilege at the expense of
indigenous people. The hatred created by
such systems is hard to control.