Pakistani Columnist: ' This cold war is against Islam and the Muslims '

Ishtiaq Beg is a Pakistani columnist who writes for a newspaper called Roznama Jang and he has penned a piece of junk that basically states that the United States had to create a reason for NATO to continue existing after the fall of the Soviet Union and the Cold War ended. You really need to read the entire article from this putz here at MEMRI. But here's a little taste of this moron's attempt at trying to both defend islamic terror and create a conspiracy theory:

"The grounds for the existence of NATO ended after Russia's defeat in Afghanistan, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War. But during the rule of President Bush, Muslims were blamed for 9/11, under a special conspiracy and a project planned in advance. And the U.S. and West created an excuse for NATO's existence by stirring up the specter of Islamic terrorism.

"On the pretext of 9/11, first Afghanistan [was occupied], and, two years later, on the weapons of mass destruction pretext, Iraq was occupied, even though there was no Islamic extremism in Iraq. Rather, the purpose of attacking Iraq was the U.S.'s conquest of the large oil reserves there. In Iraq, the U.S. and its allies did not find WMDs - but they found oil.

Can you believe this clown? Yeah, Beg, that was this ingenious plan all along for the United States to sit back and just wait until some islamic jihadists flew planes into our buildings and killed 3,000 of our innocents just so we could go in and occupy Afghanistan...a land out of the Middle Ages. But wait, this fool has more:

"Similarly, we must be aware of the conspiracy by the external enemies - under which they seek to achieve their objectives by creating law and order problems in Karachi and [elsewhere in] the country [Pakistan]."

So now, this prominent Pakistani writer, is claiming that the U.S. and NATO have their sites set on Pakistan - that is the next "jewel" for conquest.

As if I need to speak to this asshat but let me point out a few things to him:

1. The Taliban had a chance to stop any military action by the Coalition forces in Afghanistan by turning over Osama bin Laden. They refused. They got the military response they apparently wanted.

2. Hundreds of Pakistani troops have been killed by factions of the Taliban and al Qaeda yet you deem NATO as the threat?

3. The most prominent political leader in Pakistan, Bhutto, was gunned down in the streets like a dog by al Qaeda influenced Taliban assassins and yet, you point no fingers in that direction.

4. There have been over 11,000 terrorist attacks in the world by islamic jihadists since 9/11 - who would you suggest that NATO should fight?

As long as the world has surrenderists like this writer...as long as the Taliban and Hamas and Hezbollah and al Qaedas of the world have little men like this who cower in their little office cubicle...the world will never know a day without bloodshed. Ishtiaq Beg, you are a feeble little man, a puppet of terrorists and a champion for the killing of innocent men and women across this globe.

Pakistani Columnist: Islam is NATO's Big Adversary After Cold War

In an April 16, 2008 op-ed in the mass-circulation Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Jang, prominent Pakistani columnist and industrialist Ishtiaq Beg wrote that Islam has emerged as NATO's big adversary in the post-Cold War era. Beg urged the new Pakistani government to formulate its foreign policies, especially vis-à-vis NATO's role in Afghanistan, without submitting to pressure from the U.S. and NATO.
The op-ed, "Islam is NATO's Big Adversary after Cold War," came against the backdrop of U.S. President George W. Bush's participation in last month's NATO summit in the Romanian capital of Bucharest. At the summit, Western nations committed more troops to NATO's role in fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.

"This cold war is against Islam and the Muslims. In this war… the Western and American media are carrying out extreme attacks on Muslim sentiments. For example, the publication of blasphemous cartoons, the [U.K's] awarding a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, and Geert Wilders's film [Fitna ] are part of this media war. Also, the inhuman and sadistic violence against Muslim prisoners in Abu Ghuraib and Guantanamo Bay, the killing of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the freedom [given to] Israel to massacre and bomb Palestinian Muslims cannot be overlooked."

"[I was on a TV show in which] all the participants expressed deep concern over the NATO summit's decisions and their consequences for Pakistan. [The participants in the show] described it as a moment of concern for Pakistan. The participants agreed with my view that NATO and the U.S. had decided to extend the deployment, and [increase] the numbers, of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan as part of a new strategy, in response to the announcement by Pakistan's democratic government that decisions that are part of the war on terror would now be made in Pakistan's parliament, not by any single individual.
"[NATO and U.S.'s decision to extend their troops' deployment] indicates that in the future, intervention and attacks by these countries in Pakistan's northwest frontier areas will increase. Also, if logistical supplies to NATO and U.S. troops are affected by the resistance of the local populace in these areas, then the logistical support agreement with Russia provides an alternative strategy. President Bush's recent statement is of very great importance: [He said] that if an attack on the U.S. similar to 9/11 takes place, the planning for such an attack would not be carried out in Iraq or Afghanistan, but in the northern regions of Pakistan.