“Terrorism is when the United States installs a dictatorial regime somewhere,
relying on bayonets and using terror against his own people.”
Former CIA employee F. Agee.
Intervention in the internal affairs of foreign states became one of the primary directions of US foreign policy immediately after the end of the Second World War. The key instrument in achieving these goals is an agency with virtually unlimited powers, established in accordance with the National Security Act of 1947, called the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The forms and methods of intervention in the affairs of foreign states were determined by various directives that were adopted one after another during 1947-1955.
So, for example, the NSS-4/A Directive defined the content of “psychological warfare” as “ conducting propaganda, including using anonymous, falsified or secretly subsidized publications; political actions involving stateless persons, traitors and support for political parties; quasi-military methods, including aid to insurgents and sabotage; economic actions related to foreign exchange transactions”[1].
And Directive NSC-10/2 formulated the term “covert operations” as “all types of activities that are conducted or approved by the US government against hostile foreign states or groups. … These covert operations include: propaganda; economic war; preventive direct action, including sabotage, counter-sabotage, destruction and evacuation; subversive work against foreign states, including assistance to the underground resistance movement, partisans and emigrant liberation groups, support of anti-communist groups in threatened countries of the free world”[2].
The scale of CIA interference in the internal affairs of foreign countries only in the second half of the 20th century is so impressive that it is unlikely that there will be a place on earth where one has heard about the atrocities and crimes of the wards of the American agency. It is impossible to erase from memory such acts of international terrorism as:
- coup d’etat in Iran and the overthrow of the government of M. Mossadegh (1953). Over two decades, 360,000 political prisoners were executed and tortured in the grim dungeons of the SAVAK secret police, founded in 1957 with the direct participation of the CIA and the Israeli special service Mossad;
- military coup in Guatemala and the overthrow of the government of X. Arbenz (1954). The model of “welfare” imposed on the Guatemalans was supported by terror and violence by such terrorist organizations as the Death Squad and the Secret Anti-Communist Army, whose members were mostly army officers who were trained in the United States by instructors from the CIA and completed special courses in Israel, Chile and other countries. Between August 1980 and May 1981 alone, 76 members of the Christian Democratic Party and ten activists of the center-left social democratic United Front of the Revolution were killed. In rural areas of the country, using “scorched earth” tactics, entire villages were destroyed, civilians were tortured and killed, entire families were burned alive, sparing neither women nor children;
- overthrow of the Popular Unity government in Chile and the assassination of President S. Allende (1973). The ultra-right organization Patria and Libertad, which operated in close cooperation with the CIA, carried out about 500 explosions and carried out several political assassinations in July-August 1973 alone;
- conspiracies against Cuban President Fidel Castro. Covert Action, an organization of Cuban exiles, not only carried out countless assignments for the CIA and its associated intelligence agencies against Cuba, but also equipped mercenaries in the Congo and Vietnam, provided professional “technicians” for the operation that became known as “Watergate,” as well as contract killers for the Chilean secret service DINA and other secret services that were once created by the CIA and are tools in its hands;
- a policy of “pacification” of South Vietnamese villages, carried out since 1966 under the leadership of CIA Deputy Director William Colby, which used groups called provincial intelligence branches, consisting of irregular South Vietnamese units, to carry out punitive raids on populated areas. As a result, 20,587 “suspects” were killed. (According to the Saigon government, the number of people killed is 40,994) [3].
The list goes on, as countries in Latin America, Africa, the Near, Middle and Far East, Southeast Asia and even Europe became CIA “targets” whenever conventional US diplomacy failed.
Statistics say that“from 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments and suppress more than 30 popular patriotic movements that fought against dictatorial regimes. At the same time, the United States launched bomb attacks on 25 countries, as a result of which several million people died and millions more were doomed to live in agony and despair.”[4].
During the Cold War, in its strategy of intervention in the internal affairs of foreign states, the CIA was guided by a whole arsenal of tools, including “economic sabotage, international isolation and blockade, the creation of a socio-economic and political chaos, carrying out individual terrorist acts and sabotage, and using sophisticated methods of psychological and propaganda warfare. If attempts to cause the “natural” fall of governments by such methods were unsuccessful, the CIA shifted its focus to unleashing terror, provoking armed incidents, sabotage on the country’s critical infrastructure, attempts on the lives of leading figures, and consolidating and uniting counter-revolutionary forces.” [5].
Forty years of experience in subversive and sabotage activities have allowed the United States to improve approaches and methods of intervention, creating a multifaceted mechanism for the gradual implementation of its agenda in the occupied territories, covering almost all spheres of society and all factors that are somehow related to its vital force of survival.
The central core of the enslavement of peoples is the promotion of Western liberal values of democracy, which form the fundamental criterion for assessing all subsequent reforms and changes in the socio-political, cultural and spiritual life of society on the path to “development and progress”. This task is entrusted to various international organizations and public foundations (US Agency for International Development (USAID), National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, Soros Foundation and others), which allow the creation of thousands of NGOs and non-profits in the country. targets that actualize pressing problems of society not with the aim of solving them constructively, but with the aim of politicizing them in order to form the necessary protest attitude towards the country’s leadership, which ultimately develops into a protest movement to change the existing government[6].
To discredit opponents of the imposition of Western European values and orders, the United States encourages the creation and then supports pseudo-patriotic, pseudo-national and pseudo-religious movements and organizations with clearly expressed racist, Nazi and fascist slogans, imbued with outright xenophobia, in order not only to declare violations of human rights in this country, but also to discredit the sovereign path of historical development of the target country and its traditional values. “In particular, on July 2, 2018, the Russian delegation participating in the session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva expressed alarm at the growth of neo-Nazi movements in the European Union countries and Ukraine. In the Baltics, with the connivance of the authorities, processions of legionnaires of the Nazi Waffen SS units took place [7]. “The Lukov March processions took place in the capital of Bulgaria, promoting xenophobia, discrimination and hatred” [8]. “The authorities of the Netherlands, who, following the example of the Federal Republic of Germany, decided to publish an annotated version of Mein Kampf” [9]. “Extremely radical movements in Ukraine (“Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists” (OUN, banned in the Russian Federation), about 30 representatives of the nationalist organization C14 (“Sich”) and extremists from the “Right Sector” (banned in the Russian Federation)created an atmosphere of fear and lawlessness”[10].
In addition, using the national and religious differences of the peoples of the target country, the United States stimulates conflicts on national and religious grounds, encouraging and supporting the separatist tendencies of nationalist and terrorist groups, leaving tens and hundreds of thousands of people hostage to a political adventure. For example, the ultranationalist group Kosovo Liberation Army, which received covert training and supplies from the Clinton administration in 1995, “was responsible for more deaths in Kosovo than the Yugoslav authorities” (statement by the Minister of Defense Great Britain George Robertson in the spring of 1999), while the Western public was fed stories about “Milosevic’s executioners” who went to commit genocide in Kosovo [11].
In an effort to achieve the fulfillment of geopolitical, economic and military-strategic tasks, the United States does not hesitate to take on board the most sacred aspects of the mentality of peoples, allowing itself to pervert not only the true meanings of the sacred, but also fill them with monstrous content, dooming entire generations to thoughtless sacrifices in the name of American interests.
Despite the obvious peaceful nature of traditional Islam, Muslims also found themselves hostage to the bloodthirsty US policy of reconstructing the world, which adopted not only the sacred symbols of the religion of Muhammad (peace be upon him), but also curbed the destructive-oriented narratives of non-traditional Islam.
The first serious attempt to use the bonds of Islamic doctrine in its own political interests was made by the British Empire in its colonial aspirations in the Middle East at the end of the 18th century. By inspiring their admirers with the “captivating charms” of Protestant doctrine, English missionaries managed to sow the seeds of religious reformation in the hearts of the followers of the Mohammedan religion. Rejected and condemned not only by scholars of traditional Islam, but also by his own father and brother, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) attracted the close attention of English colonists with his reformist views and ideas for updating the religion of the faithful. Not missing a unique chance, he was given full support from the reliable partner of the English crown, the emir of the village of ad-Dargiya, Muhammad ibn Saud. As a result of the agreement concluded between the two namesakes, secular power ended up in the hands of the Saudi family, and spiritual power in the hands of the “sheikh,” which allowed the British to destabilize internal political life in the Ottoman state, as a result of which thousands of believers laid down their heads, protecting their cities and families from the invasion of the “black horde”, blessed by the English crown. And only thanks to the strong unity of the adherents of traditional Islam, this newly created chimera was pacified, leaving a black spot in the history of the blessed ummah [12]. Rejecting the legitimacy of the judgments of all imams of traditional religious-legal schools (madhabs) and the legitimacy of the Ottomans’ right to power, the naive reformer laid the foundations for a new ideology of Protestant Islam, the ideology of Wahhabism, which became not only a convenient tool for the colonial powers in the plunder of the natural resources of Muslim countries, but also a good help for Orientalists to reconsider and rethink the foundations of traditional Islam, which are the only guarantor of the preservation of the centuries-old heritage of Islamic civilization.
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the history of mankind was disturbed by wars, conflicts and revolutions, the locomotive of which for the most part were the ideas of National Socialism of various stripes and in various combinations, which gradually replaced the religious mentality of peoples that had been practiced for centuries. Such a massive impact on the mentality did not leave Muslim peoples aside, plunging the talented minds of the faithful into an endless and chaotic search for the causes of the decline of the once leading nation of Islam, both in science and culture. In a senseless search for the “keys” to “development and progress” imposed by the Western model of modernism, Muslims were indoctrinated with the idea of archaic and ossified rules and regulations of traditional Islam. Already in the 1960-70s, a slow but purposeful propaganda of the ideas of Saudi Wahhabism began, as a standard of advanced, modernist and the only correct understanding of “pure Islam”, the main mouthpieces of which were two official structures sponsored by Saudi Arabia, the World Muslim League and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth . In addition, developing a worldwide network for initiation into puritanical Islam, the Saudi authorities sponsored the opening of various Islamic centers in leading cities in America and Europe [13], which played an important role in the formation of Euro-Islam, the phenomenon of which is based on the recognition by the Muslim communities of Europe that only the Western value system, the Western political system can supposedly provide Muslims with a decent existence, progress and development”[14]. Later in 2019, Prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad bin Salman, revealing the true motive for such sudden activity of the Saudi authorities to promote the ideology of Wahhabism throughout the world in the 1960s-80s, admitted that this was one of the strategies of the West, in particular the United States, to counter Soviet influence in Muslim countries [15]. The practice of puritan Islam, the basis of which is based on the postulates of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, which allowed one to comment on the Koran according to one’s understanding and desire, without even analyzing the verses from the point of view language and logic[16],became a harbinger of a new ideology, the destructive potential of which the United States and its allies have already begun to use in 80 years of the XX century.
The United States is undertaking another adventure to “restore the former glory of Islam” in its confrontation with the USSR on the long-suffering lands of Afghanistan. In order to speed up the possible invasion of Soviet troops in Afghanistan and thus lure the USSR into the “Vietnamese abyss” (an idea formulated by US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and CIA Director Robert Gates), in the summer of 1979 US President Jimmy Carter signed a decree that gave rise to the beginning of the CIA’s Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan[17]. Osama bin Laden (according to some experts was a CIA agent) [18] arrived in the country later that year, sent by the then head of Saudi intelligence Prince Turki bin Faisal, where he created the Maktab al- Khidamat (MAK), which helped finance, recruit and train mujahideen fighters. Bin Laden, MAC and the Afghan mujahideen received a total of about half a billion dollars a year from the CIA and about the same from the Saudis, channeled through the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).[19] The methods and approaches of conducting inhumane slaughter were exactly duplicated from actions already carried out or still being carried out by the Americans in other countries of the world (Nicaragua, Angola, El Salvador, etc.). “Planting bombs on cars, launching rockets into residential areas of Kabul, destroying government-built schools and hospitals, killing teachers and other symbols of the government’s social activities have become targets of “mujahideen” attacks, just as they did on another side of the globe, US-backed Nicaraguan rebels strictly followed the instructions specified in the CIA training manual “Psychological Operations in Guerilla Warfare” [20].
Having achieved the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, the United States, contrary to the agreements reached with the USSR, did not stop supplying the region with weapons and money, strengthening the military machine of “jihad” that had been formed over the years and replenishing it with new “fighters for the faith.”
As a result of the synthesis of the skills accumulated over a decade in conducting military-terrorist operations and the ideology of Wahhabism, a new military-political phenomenon was formed, transformed into a new ideology – the ideology of jihadism – the place of religion in which is purely nominal. The main ideas that allowed this monster to be “legalized” are expressed in the trinity of such concepts as Salafism, takfir and jihad.
Salafism, a reformist movement of non-traditional Islam, is a prototype of Protestant fundamentalism for followers of Islam, which arose at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. The central category of “teaching” is the rejection of the entire heritage of the Islamic tradition after three generations of Muslims (as-salaf al-salihun) as a heretical innovation (bid’a) and a return to the practice of the first Muslims (salaf), as an indispensable condition for the purity of the doctrine [21] . Having thoughtlessly erased a whole layer of knowledge accumulated over centuries, the Salafis lost the only correct methodology of traditional Islam in the interpretation of the texts of the Holy Scriptures, the reliability of which has been tested for centuries. Having “cleansed” the religion of “heretical” layers, the followers of Salafism found themselves in a situation of methodological vacuum and cognitive trap, which forced them to interpret the texts of the Holy Scriptures based on their own conjectures and guesses, depending on the current situation – a method that is no different from the practice of “Muslim” liberals -reformers. To give visible integrity to the project of “Muslim” Protestantism, its content is filled with ideas and views of various directions of non-traditional Islam (Mujassimites, Mushabbiha, Jabrites, etc.[22]), and even the judgments of such scholars as Ibn, known for their critical position towards some aspects of Islamic practice -Taymiyya, so that the built protest against traditional Islam would have far-reaching consequences, right up to its final dismantling, as was the case with Christianity in the West. In order to exclude any possibility of exposing the failure of the plan of puritanical “Islam,” the epigones of Salafism proclaim themselves to be the only righteous community, and everyone who does not agree with their “manifesto” is removed from the bosom of religion, accused of unbelief (takfir).
“Takfir is the declaration of all enemies of Islam (within Muslims themselves) as kafirs (infidels), i.e. a tactic adopted by numerous right-wing extremist Islamist organizations that widely use terror”[23]. The practice of takfir originated at the dawn of Islam, during the life of the fourth righteous caliph Ali ibn Abu Talib. It was under him, after the Battle of Siffin in 657, during the struggle for power between Ali ibn Abu Talib and Muawiyah, that a political event took place known in the history of Islam as the “Court of Arbitration”. The agreement accepted by both parties (Abu ibn Abu Talib and Muawiyah) provided for the resolution of the dispute through new elections, as a result of which the decision to appoint caliph was made in favor of Muawiyah. Those who disagreed with the procedure and results of choosing a new successor rebelled and declared all those who “turned to the judge and not to the Book of Allah”kafirs (non-believers), separating themselves from the main part of Muslims into the first religious-political group in the history of Islam, the Kharijites (from the Arabic “khawarij” – those who spoke out, left) [24] and began an “endless” jihad against their co-religionists, turning two innovations of the first centuries (takfir-jihad) into inseparable twins, the harm from which continues unabated to this day.
Inspired by the success of the American “jihad” in Afghanistan, the United States continued to use the services of the “Mujahideen” and sent them to carry out various political and military-strategic tasks in the Balkans and the Caucasus, in regions to which US national interests spread, immediately after collapse of the Soviet Union. So, “from 1992 to 1995, the Pentagon transferred thousands of al-Qaeda mujahideen ( banned in the Russian Federation) from Central Asia to Europe to fight alongside the Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs. According to intelligence sources, the mujahideen “were accompanied by US special forces equipped with high-tech communications equipment.” Bin Laden’s mercenaries were used by the Pentagon as shock troops “to coordinate and support the offensive actions of the Bosnian Muslims.” [25]. Led by Muhammad al-Zawahiri (brother of al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri), the elite unit of the Kosovo Liberation Army had direct radio contact with NATO leadership during the Kosovo conflict, and British SAS instructors and American Delta forces were engaged directly by their preparation. “The CIA provided military assistance before and during the 1999 bombing campaign, including military training manuals and on-site advice, under the cover of OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) monitors. a> [26].
As for the Caucasus, the American strategy to destabilize the region was no different from other bloody adventures. “US-sponsored mujahideen fighters linked to Osama bin Laden were flown from Afghanistan to Azerbaijan using an airline created on behalf of the CIA by former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense General Richard Secord. . By 1993, another front company, MEGA Oil, created by the same employee, recruited and armed 2,000 Mujahideen, turning Baku into a base for Mujahideen terrorist operations throughout the Caucasus [27]. Since the mid-1990s, bin Laden has financed militant leaders Shamil Basayev and Omar ibn al-Khattab to the tune of several million dollars a month. US intelligence remained deeply involved until the end of the decade. According to Yosef Bodanksy, then director of the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, Washington was actively engaged in “another anti-Russian jihad,” seeking to support and strengthen the most virulent anti-Western Islamist forces. [28].Despite the difficult ordeal that befell the Chechen people, they still managed to turn the situation around and resist the ideology of Wahhabism, relying on the centuries-old traditions and customs (adat) of the Vainakhs. It was thanks to the efforts of adherents of traditional Islam, in particular the First President of the Chechen Republic Akhmat-Khoja Kadyrov (1951-2004) and Sheikh Muhammad-Sodiq Muhammad-Yusuf (1952-2015) (a theologian from the Republic of Uzbekistan, recognized among Muslim scholars of the world), in revealing the true meaning of jihad and a decision was made to cleanse the Chechen land of international extremism, terrorism and various gangs. The golden words of Sheikh Muhammad-Sodiq Muhammad-Yusuf that“…you Chechens need to realize one truth, that neither the Saudis need you, nor the Emirates need you, nor the Libyans need you, and others don’t need you either, only Russia needs you, and Russia needs you, because you are a small people… and only together with a big country can you achieve success”[29], had a fundamental impact on making a fateful decision for the Chechen people -“live, work, raise their children as part of Russia” [30].
Maddened by the possibility of not being bound by the obligations of international law, the United States did not hide its vile ambitions to conquer the Greater Middle East. Thus, in September 2000, The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) (founded in 1997 by a number of leading neoconservative writers and scholars to promote an aggressive US foreign policy and “mobilizing support for American global leadership”[31]), publishes a document outlining his foreign policy vision.It called for the United States to use overwhelming military force to establishing control over the Persian Gulf region and “to maintain US global supremacy… and shape the international security order in accordance with American principles and interests.However, to achieve the intended goal , continued in this report, some catastrophic event had to happen, something like a new Pearl Harbor “[32]. And this the event happened on September 11, 2001 (9/11) – an event that allowed neoconservatives to take leading positions in foreign policy in the administration of President D. Bush.
The invasions of Afghanistan (in 2001) and Iraq (in 2003) were the leading catalysts for the radicalization of the population of Muslim countries, which made it possible to join the ranks of already formed terrorist cells of Al-Qaeda (banned in the Russian Federation), as a necessary condition for destabilizing the region. The strategy of destabilizing the Middle East was openly postulated by the neocons. Thus, in 2002, leading neoconservative Michael Ledeen, former consultant to the US National Security Council, US State Department and US Department of Defense; held the Freedom Scholar Chair at the American Enterprise Institute [33] stated: “…We don’t need stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon or even Saudi Arabia….The real question is not whether, but whether , how to destabilize the situation. We must ensure the accomplishment of the democratic revolution” [34]. This “how” resulted in the propaganda of the ideology of jihadism by various extremist and terrorist organizations and movements, including Al-Qaeda, fully consistent US tactics to spread false values and erode the national and cultural foundations of the peoples of the Middle East, one of the elements of the technology of “controlled chaos” [35].
The traditional teachings of Islam have firmly established the norm of prohibiting any unrest that leads to bloodshed, regardless of the complexity of the political situation. This position is most deeply revealed in the commentary of the outstanding Muslim thinker, Sunni theologian and jurist (faqih) Imam al-Ghazali: “If it is difficult to demand the manifestation of fear of God and knowledge from a person who has taken on the leadership of a community (imāma ), and if, due to his removal from power, unbearable unrest and unrest (fitna) occur, then we consider it necessary to endure his rule, because we are faced with a choice: 1) either increase the unrest by replacing him, and then the damage and loss that the Muslims will suffer during this change will exceed everything that they suffered before due to the insufficient [fulfillment] of these conditions, which were established to give priority to the [common] interest (maslaha), – because no one undermines like that the basis of interest, being carried away by giving exclusivity and advantage to this interest, acting like someone who, while erecting a palace, for the sake of this destroys and destroys the city, 2) or consider it necessary to deliver the country from the [power of] the ruler (imām) and the secession of the provinces, but this is impossible and unthinkable for us. We decide in favor of an unjust ruler, an oppressor, being in power in the country, due to extreme necessity for its inhabitants” [36].
Without any legal grounds for legalizing the “religion of jihad” within the canons of traditional Islam, the ideologists of jihadism had no choice but to resort to the templates of destructive sects, the only way “to destroy the human personality and its connections with the outside world, using psychological control and technologies for reforming consciousness” [37]. Absolutization of the idea of jihad to the level of a measure elevated to the rank of “permitted by God” made it possible to realize the possibility of manipulative influence on the masses in order to promote one’s own extreme ideological views and establish total control over the consciousness and behavior of adherents. Thus, the main ideologist of Islamist jihad, Abdullah Azzam, argued that“the duty to fight continues until death and remains the duty of everyone until we liberate al-Andalus, until we reach Leningrad again , to the Finns, to the River Ruhl in France. The lands to which the laws of Islam applied must be liberated”[38]. And in response to the demand of the former leader of the Egyptian branch of “Islamic Jihad” ( banned in the Russian Federation) Sayed Imam al-Sharif to stop the bloodshed, al-Qaeda theorist ( is prohibited in the Russian Federation) Ayman al-Zawahiri, stated that“this jihad is not for the benefit of humanity: it is for in order to please Allah. The expression “fi sabil Allah”, “in the path of Allah”, is a criterion” [39]. Proclaiming “jihad” for the sake of “jihad” and following the example of the adherents of “pure Islam,” the mouthpieces of jihadism did not hesitate to turn to divine texts, selectively distorting the meanings of the sacred, so as not to ruin their “profitable enterprise.” As a result, thousands of duped sons and sisters of the blessed Ummah were subjected to humiliating and heartbreaking experiments for the sake of the “great cause of Islam.” Thus, the legalization of prostitution and betrayal of one’s spouse (zina) under the compromising name of “jihad al-Nikah” (“sex jihad”) [40] exposed the insides of “Salafi” freedom, no different from the liberal agenda of destroying the institution of the family. Moreover, the jihadists forced perverted “services” “at gunpoint”, cold-bloodedly sentencing “intractable prudes” to death [41].
How many wives from two-parent families, who were forced to leave with their husbands for the territory of “Islam”, bitterly tried all the delights of “Sharia”, involuntarily changing “companions” several times, gradually realizing themselves locked in a psychological prison. Fanatically following the “great idea,” the jihadists did not spare disabled children, allowing“to kill newborn children with Down syndrome and with physical disabilities…. The executions of 38 babies with Down syndrome aged one weeks to three months. They were killed by lethal injection or strangulation. Some of the killings took place in Syria and Mosul”[42]. In their preoccupation with the “purity” of their ranks, jihadists are reminiscent of the leader of the Third Reich, who “came to the conclusion that terminally ill and mentally handicapped people should be eliminated not only for the sake of maintaining purity Aryan race, but also for economic reasons”[43]. Cultivating inhumane practices, the “saviors of the Ummah” passionately competed in seizing homes, cars, beheading, and taking possession of “trophy” sex slaves, regarding these atrocities as “mercy from God,” and zealously flaunted these “gifts” to the potential public.
“Characteristic of destructive cults are such signs as a negative perception of dissidents and secular science, hostility towards other religious faiths, an indifferent and contemptuous attitude towards historical and cultural heritage, a rigid hierarchy with frequent veneration of the head of the cult, absolutization and intensive propaganda of one’s religious concepts, eclecticism and heightened eschatologism of the creed, the establishment of total control over the consciousness and behavior of the adherent” [44], easily coexisted in the jihadist monster, whose adherents tend to act according to the following plan: “first migrate (hijra) from the territory of disbelief (dar-ul-kufr) to the territory of Islam (dar-ul-Islam) (this can be a country, region, or places such as mountains and forests), the creation of a jamaat there, i.e. Islamic community (or joining such a community), then waging military jihad (raiding the enemy from one’s military camp), first to liberate territory that was in the hands of Muslims, then to spread Islam by military means in other countries, thus creating a unified worldwide Islamic state (caliphate)”[45].
Submitting to military-political tasks in the political project outlined by the West, ambitious jihadists rushed to fulfill the “mission” entrusted to them. Thus, the group “Ansar al-Islam (banned in the Russian Federation), established in the north of Iraq, established by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, allowed on February 3, 2003, within a few weeks before the start of the war in Iraq, Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, speaking at the UN, announced the connection of al-Qaeda with the Saddam regime [46]. After the invasion of American troops, Osama bin Laden, the famous jihadist slogan “to defeat the “distant enemy” you must destroy the “near enemy””, changing to “to defeat the “distant enemy” you need to cooperate with the remnants of the “near enemy””, endorses the jihadist-Baathite alliance [47], the deadly consequences of which were not long in coming. Terrorist attacks by militants “Tawhid wal-Jihad”, “Al-Qaeda Iraq”, “Islamic State of Iraq” (banned in the Russian Federation) and other groups associated with al-Qaeda, began to crush Iraq. An explosion at the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad (19 people killed, 60 injured), an attack on the UN headquarters (23 people killed, more than 200 injured), explosions at the offices of American companies, the headquarters of Italian troops, terrorist attacks on the city of Karbala (14 dead, up to 170 injured), explosions at the offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the city of Erbil (200 people were killed, 267 were injured) sowed fear and hatred among the people of Iraq[48]. Suicide bombers carried out almost 42% of the bombings in Iraq, causing the largest number of casualties [49].
Unexpectedly for Washington, the uprising that broke out on the southern Shiite front, led by Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, was met with a series of brutal terrorist attacks against Shiites. An explosion near one of the main shrines of the Shiites – the mausoleum of Imam Ali in Najaf (126 dead, 230 injured; among the dead – the leader of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq, Ayatollah Muhammad Bakr al-Hakim), sabotage at Shiite shrines in Karbala and Baghdad (more than 170 people, about 500 Iraqis were injured; among the dead were 49 Iranian pilgrims) [50], and others demonstrated the provocative strategy of war against the Shiites, embodied by al-Zarqawi, in order to provoke them into retaliation, and bring the Sunnis under his wing, plunging the country into a ruthless civil war. The “philonthropic” actions of terrorists only strengthened the US presence in Iraq; already in 2007, there were 170,000 American soldiers in the completely destroyed country [51].
Having completed the “democratization” of Iraq and the withdrawal of its troops in December 2011, the United States left the Iraqi people alone with economic and internal political chaos, preparing the ground for the collapse of Iraq along ethno-religious lines.
Meanwhile, the Arab Spring raged across the Arab world, ousting Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, brutally killing the leader of the Libyan revolution, Muammar Gaddafi, and sparking civil war in Syria, which opened up ample opportunities for jihadists to carry out their new ” jihad”.
Following the strategy of al-Zarqawi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (banned in the Russian Federation) al-Baghdadi undertook terrorist attacks and brutal massacres of Iraqi Shiites, continuing to sow the seeds of sectarian strife that has similarly spread to Syria. Meanwhile, in Syria, the Al-Qaeda-linked groups Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra (banned in the Russian Federation) thoughtlessly and brutally put into practice their military-political “skills” and “skills” to build a “caliphate”. And only the support of Russia and Iran in preserving the integrity of the Syrian statehood did not allow the implementation of the insidious plans of Western colonialists to divide Syria along ethno-religious lines.
Experiencing undisguised annoyance at the unrealized dream of ruling the world, the United States continues its strategy of destabilizing regions, sending its well-fed “jihad warriors” to various hot spots. In Afghanistan alone, the actions of the United States and Great Britain contribute to the strengthening of the regional wing of the IS terrorist group, whose number already amounted to 3.5 thousand as of November 2022 [52]. As for Ukraine, dozens of militants associated with the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda were transferred to its territory from the Syrian province of Idlib [53].
Wandering in the unrealizable illusions of an existential vacuum and rejecting the healthy instructions of the scientists of traditional Islam, hard-hearted admirers of “jihad” are forced to carry out the “mission” assigned to them by the West to eradicate the centuries-old traditions and beliefs of the peoples of the world, in order to build a new society of transhumanism, devoid of high ideals, in the resulting wasteland. spirituality, morality and justice.
PS. The special military operation carried out by Russia in Ukraine is aimed not so much at eliminating the enemy’s military targets as at liberating the Ukrainian people from the captivity of illusions and deception, inhumanely and vilely introduced into the naive consciousness of Ukrainian brothers and sisters, just as they did with the followers of Islam in order to fill their hearts hatred and cruelty not only towards their age-old culture and history, but also towards their wonderful traditions of good neighborliness and friendliness, dooming them to the vile slavery of the ideology of hypocrisy and forcing them to die thoughtlessly in the name of the “jihad” of globalization, in which there is no place for the identity of the Ukrainian people, also as well as the identities of all other peoples of the planet.
[1] Syrokomsky V.A. International terrorism and the CIA: Documents, evidence, facts. – M.: Progress, 1992.
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