Campaign of “Fear and Racism” Against Muslims in US

Published in La Jornada
(Mexico) on 27 July 2012
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Translated from by Jonathan DeYoung. Edited by Gillian Palmer.
Jorge Rafael Videla is in prison serving four life sentences for the crimes that he committed as the head of Argentina’s military dictatorship. He is a devout Catholic, worthy of membership in El Yunque, the secret society that aspires to govern Mexico. Now, at age 86, he details how he collaborated with the Catholic Church during the Dirty War that was waged against political opposition, with the goal of “disciplining an anarchistic society.”

Many denied that the papal representation and the Argentine bishops had supported the military dictatorship. But Videla shares how Church hierarchy advised the leaders of the coup on the best way to handle the situation of the thousands of disappeared and tortured, from the 500 stolen babies to the kidnapped and disappeared. The entire Argentine Church did not collaborate with the military. There were bishops, priests and nuns that died defending human rights and Christian principles.

While Videla regrets the disappearance of thousands of people, but takes no responsibility for what happened, another general says he has asked for forgiveness for “the excesses committed in his country.” I speak of Fernando Matthei of the Chilean Air Force. He does so by confirming the manner of death of his friend, General Alberto Bachelet, father of ex-president Michelle Bachelet: from the torture he was subjected to by the military coup headed by Pinochet. But the Chilean general does not regret his participation in the dictatorship. “Faced with the same situation (the ‘Communist threat’), I would do exactly the same.”

Fighting the “communist threat” was used to kill and persecute thousands. But the United States no longer believes in this threat. Now it’s another, the Muslim penetration, and there is already someone fighting it, emulating the deceased Sen. McCarthy: Congresswoman and former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. According to the legislator, the Muslim Brotherhood, the party that now governs Egypt, succeeded in introducing a Trojan horse into the State Department, over which Hilary Clinton presides.

I am speaking of Huma Abedin, the Muslim daughter of Egyptian immigrants who by her own capacity has risen to the highest levels of government. Former presidential candidate Bachmann maintains that this is proof there exists a “profound Muslim terrorist influence” in the Obama administration.

Republicans have reacted with terror to the possibility that Bachmann’s absurd accusations could be detrimental to her presidential campaign, even initiating a witch hunt within the government of Obama and a campaign of “fear and racism” against the Muslim community.

All that’s missing: Barack Obama, a danger to the United States…


Jorge Rafael Videla cumple en la cárcel cuatro condenas a cadena perpetua por los crímenes que cometió al frente de la dictadura militar argentina. Él es un ferviente católico digno de figurar en el Yunque, la agrupación que aspira a gobernar México. Ahora, a sus 86 años, detalla la colaboración que la Iglesia católica le brindó en la guerra sucia que sostuvo contra la oposición política y con el fin de "disciplinar a una sociedad anarquizada".

Muchos negaron que el representante papal y los obispos argentinos hubieran apoyado a la dictadura militar. Pero Videla cuenta cómo la jerarquía eclesiástica asesoró a los golpistas sobre la mejor forma de manejar la situación de los miles de desaparecidos y torturados, de los 500 bebés robados a los secuestrados y desaparecidos. No toda la Iglesia argentina colaboró con los militares. Hubo obispos, sacerdotes y monjas que murieron por defender los derechos humanos y los principios cristianos.

Mientras Videla lamenta la desaparición de miles de personas, pero no asume su responsabilidad en lo que pasó, otro general dice haber pedido perdón por "los excesos cometidos en su país". Se trata de Fernando Matthei, de la fuerza aérea chilena. Lo hace al confirmarse la forma en que murió su amigo, el general Alberto Bachelet, padre de la ex presidenta Michelle Bachelet: por las torturas a que fue sometido tras el golpe militar encabezado por Pinochet. Pero el general chileno no se arrepiente de su participación en la dictadura. “Enfrentado a las mismas situaciones (la ‘amenaza comunista’), volvería a hacer exactamente lo mismo”.

Combatir la "amenaza comunista" sirvió para matar y perseguir a miles. Pero en esa amenaza ya no creen ni en Estados Unidos. Hoy es otra, la penetración musulmana y ya existe quien la combata, emulando al fallecido senador McCarthy: la congresista y ex candidata republicana a la presidencia Michele Bachmann. Según la legisladora, la Hermandad Musulmana, el partido que ahora gobierna en Egipto, logró introducir un caballo de Troya en la Secretaría de Estado que preside la señora Hilary Clinton.

Se trata de Huma Abedin, musulmana hija de inmigrantes egipcios y que por su capacidad ha logrado ascender hasta los niveles más altos del gobierno. La ex candidata presidencial Bachmann sostiene que es una prueba más de que existe una "profunda influencia del terrorismo musulmán" en la administración de Barack Obama.

Los republicanos han reaccionado aterrados por la posibilidad de que las disparatadas acusaciones de Bachmann perjudiquen la campaña de su candidato a la Casa Blanca, al iniciar una caza de brujas dentro del gobierno de Obama y una campaña de "miedo y racismo" contra la comunidad musulmana.

Lo que faltaba: Barack Obama, un peligro para Estados Unidos…
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