God Does Not Gloat

The U.S. administration spies on tens of millions of Americans and non-Americans. Syrian activist Mohammad Hadi recently discovered that all the talks he held with other revolutionary activists through Skype were infiltrated by the Americans and that all their content had been obtained, including the important conversation concerning the Minagh Airport, which the rebels were trying to control. Other activists said that they suspect a lot of important information concerning the rebels’ movements on the ground were passed by the U.S. administration to the Syrian regime.

The U.S. administration even spied on “human rights” organizations in America and obtained the details of various party activists at home and abroad. American activist Susannah Sirkin, who runs a human rights organization, angrily told The New York Times that she is very concerned about exposure from the U.S. administration’s spying, which has led to a loss of credibility. People will often hesitate now before speaking to these organizations out of fear that the U.S. is leaking their conversations.

The funny thing is that a lot of American activists in particular are those who stick their noses in the affairs of other countries and accuse Middle Eastern governments of spying on activists opposed to the government. They accused Bahrain of spying on activists with other governments in the Gulf and the Middle East that are all using spyware to infiltrate websites, phone calls, communication programs and email to obtain information about the movements of activists and dissidents trading information. Today we tell them, God does not gloat. Before we talk about democracy, human rights and freedom of expression in the countries of the Middle East, your Western governments account for the spying on of tens of millions of people with your judiciary branch colluding with your executive branch. God really does not gloat.