According to the news piece published by The Guardian on 21st November 2015, a deadly attack at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali’s capital has left at least 21 people dead. This incident happened less than a week after the Paris gun and suicide bomb attacks in which 130 people were killed. The president of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Këita declared a national state of emergency effective from midnight. Al-Mourabitoun, an African jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida, claimed responsibility in a message posted on Twitter. The Radisson attack follows a nearly 24-hour siege and hostage-taking at another hotel in August in the central Malian town of Sevare, in which five UN workers were killed along with four soldiers and four attackers. Five people, including a French citizen and a Belgian, were killed in an attack at a restaurant in Bamako in March, the first such incident in the capital. Both attacks were also claimed by al-Mourabitoun. (Source: theguardian.com)
Comment:
Deadly attacks on civilians in the name of Islam by the so-called Islami Jihadi groups are not a new phenomenon in the present world. The world witnesses how these attacks are staged one after another and how after every attack Western leaders strengthen their unethical war against Islam and Muslims under the pretext of fighting terrorism. It is well known that most of these Jihadi groups are created and funded directly or indirectly by the western intelligence agencies to meet their covert political agenda in the Muslim world. In recent years, incidents of kidnappings and terrorist attacks by armed groups in Mali have shown that these groups are exploited by the West to destabilize governments in certain countries or to use (the attacks) as a pretext for the invasion of the West.
Mali, the former colony of France is rich in uranium, oil and gold. The country is Africa’s third largest gold producer. Northern Mali is also important to France for its uranium reserve, because 40% of its nuclear power comes from uranium reserves in West Africa and 75% of its energy needs meet by nuclear power. After giving Mali its “independence” in 1960, France is plundering its huge natural resources for last 50 years through forceful “Cooperation Accords” and “Colonial Pacts” and transferring billions of dollars every year in their treasury. Former French President Jacques Chirac once said, “We have to be honest, and acknowledge that a big part of the money in our banks comes precisely from the exploitation of the African continent.” For this reason, France invaded Mali in January 2013 in the name of fighting Islamic fundamentalists. France justified their invasion by saying that the Islamists are on their way to take over the country. The truth is that the intervention had nothing to do with protecting Mali from so called Jihadists. Rather it was all about protecting France’s material interest.
The West always took advantage of the attacks that take place in their country’s intervention in the Muslim world and killing hundreds and thousands of civilians, driving them out from their homeland, sending western troops to torture Muslims, ruthless bombardment to destroy their properties and plundering huge natural resources belonging to Muslims. And it has all these crimes under the name of eradicating terrorism.
The truth is terrorism or terrorist attacks will never come to an end under the manmade capitalist ideology, because it is the part and parcel of this corrupt ideology. The vicious cycle of so called terrorist attacks, spreading lies against Islam and Muslims, and western intervention in the Muslim lands will only come to an end with the re-establishment of the second Khilafah Rashidah. Under the just system of Khilafah upon the method of the Prophethood, the real terrorists of the world will be brought under justice for their endless crimes against humanity and the world will again witness true peace and security, InshaAllah.
Fehmida Binte Wadud