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Dr. Kaukab Siddique
on WOL Radio's "On With Leon"
Show.
Understanding the
Vajpayee-Musharraf-U.S.-Israeli
Moves
Their target is the Islamic resistance in
Kashmir
and in
Afghanistan
The ON WITH LEON show can be heard on
Sundays from 1 to 3 PM. The host,
Wilmer Leon, is well informed and interested in
issues related to
Palestine,
Iraq
and the
Indo-Pakistani
subcontinent. He is
against war and President
Bush's "pre-emptive" aggression against
defenseless countries like Iraq and
Afghanistan.
On May 11, 2003 Dr. Kaukab Siddique was
interviewed on the show for a
full hour. WOL is heard over a large area of
Washington, Virginia and
Maryland over 1450 AM in Washington and 1010 AM
in Baltimore.
Mr. Leon asked Dr. Siddique a series of
questions based on a report
in the
Wall Street Journal
about an initiative by
Indian Prime Minister
Vajpayee to make peace with Pakistan. Dr.
Siddique explained the complex
situation as follows:
1. Pakistani coup leader Musharraf and Indian
Prime Minister Vajpayee are
working together under the supervision of the
United States.
2. The scenarios for "war" in December 2001 and
May 2002, when large Indian
and Pakistani forces gathered on their mutual
borders were a contrived show.
3. The purpose of the contrivance was to take off
the pressure on Musharraf
from his internal Islamic opposition which
condemned the U.S. bombing of
Afghanistan. The Pakistani people have now (in
2003) isolated Musharraf and
the "war" show won't work any more.
4. The U.S. wants to move a step further, after
Afghanistan, and squelch the
Kashmiri resistance. Hence the State Department
has listed all Kashmiri
resistance groups as terrorists, including the
biggest one known as Hizbul
Mujahideen which is entirely indigenous.
[Lashkare Taiba, which has public
support in Pakistan, was labeled personally by
Mr. Bush
last year.]
5. A real WAR between India and Pakistan would
vastly increase the strength
of the Islamic movement in Pakistan.
6. India is unable to destroy Kashmiri armed
resistance without U.S. help and
the stoppage of all help from Pakistanis and
other Muslims. AS THE RESISTANCE
CONTINUES, INDIA, with 700,000 troops occupying
Kashmir, FACES ECONOMIC
COLLAPSE.
7. The victory of Kashmiri resistance, or even
its continuance, would
re-awaken the Sikh national movement which has
been ruthlessly crushed by
India. Sikhs are sympathetic to Kashmiris. There
are also widespread peasant
and communist uprisings in Eastern India. India
could start falling apart.
8. For the U.S., stoppage of Kashmiri resistance
is important. The U.S. wants
the Pakistani army to be deployed on the
Afghanistan frontier. Musharref has
already placed 70,000 troops there but they have
not been able to stop the
overlap of Taliban guerrilla fighters over the
Frontier. With the TALIBAN
RESURGENCE, the U.S. is very much on the
defensive and will be in need of the
Pakistani army to stop the support for the jihad.
9. U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IS NOW IN
ZIONIST
HANDS.
Any victory of the Islamic
resistance, be it in Kashmir or in Afghanistan,
is seen as a threat against
Israel and as a rallying point for Muslims all
over the world to defeat
Israel.
10. If Musharref were overthrown and Pakistan
became an Islamic power with
nuclear weapons, Israel would lose its nuclear
hegemony. Pakistani observers
think that under U.S. cover, Israel is spying on
Pakistani nuclear
facilities and waiting for a chance to strike at
Pakistan.
11. The U.S., in the projection of its power, is
unwilling to accept any
government which is not in its control. Hence a
convergence between its
policies and those of Israel.
OTHER ASPECTS OF THE INTERVIEW:
In response to some powerful words from
Dr. Martin Luther King, quoted
by Mr. Leon, Dr. Siddique indicated the erosion
of civil rights within the
U.S. as a microcosm of U.S. behavior in the Arab
and Muslim world. He focused
on FBI RAIDS ON THE HOMES OF THREE
AFRICAN-AMERICAN Muslims which took place
on May 10. One of these, Br. Hammad Abdur-Raheem,
a supporter of
Jamaat al-Muslimeen,
resigned from the U.S. army owing
to his conscience, years
back. He has broken no law but is being
investigated, possibly, because he is
married to a Muslim woman from
Indonesia.
A FOURTH BROTHER HAS BEEN ARRESTED
IN KOREA and brought all the way to the U.S. No
charges, but simply
"investigation!"
IT WAS MOTHER'S DAY on May 11. Dr. Siddique
mentioned the words of the
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) that "Paradise lies at
the feet of mothers" and Mr.
Leon, a good Christian, graciously repeated the
quote several times during
the hour.
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