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February 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The comments come against a backdrop of the burning of Islam’s holy book, the Qu’ran by US-led forces at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan on Tuesday, which sparked nationwide protests in the country.
Even double apologies from the US commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Allen and US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta have not calmed Afghans, at least 11 of whom have been killed in the protests.
Press TV talks with Dignity, Human rights and Peace organizer Randy Short from Washington to shed more light on the issue.
The video also offers the opinions of two other guests Director of the Awareness Foundation, Reverend Nadim Nassar from London and Senior Editor of Veterans Today, Gordon Duff from Ohio.
Below is the transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Let’s look at the timeline here, Dr. Randy Short, in 2008 a US soldier riddled the Qu’ran with bullets in Iraq, we just had our guest there in London talk about the pastor Terry Jones in the United States if you remember the burning of the Quran there, US soldiers urinating on dead afghans, and posing with dead afghans, parading their body parts: tell us, how do you explain these incidents, and the fact that they just keep getting repeated?
Short: Well, I would differ not in a spirit but in substance with the first gentleman in London, what’s happening to Afghanis has historically happened to native Americans and African Americans of which I’m of both people. We have had a ritual of murdering and mutilating people based on the color of their skin and difference of the religion.
That was an American folk-life, it was a way of life, there were post cards, celebrations, Americans have what is called picnics where you eat food together- but picnic comes from the expression pick a nigger, which you select a black person to be mutilated and killed. So we have a pastime of mutilating people who are different.
There is an arrogance, not ignorance, an arrogance that people who are not Anglo, are not European, are not human. In addition to that there is an arrogance that there is this understanding that people do not have to respect other religions and so attacking Islam is old.
I’m a descendent of Africans who were Muslims, brought to the United States and stripped of their religion. There has always been for the Europeans going to the crusades and before an animosity towards people in the Muslim world.
There is an expression in America that communicates the lack of humanity of people who are black; that’s the word nigger. The same sort of word is used for people who are Muslim, which is sad nigger.
And so with the lynchings and the mutilations that have happened historically in this country against blacks and it goes on and super max prisons and other things, this same treatment where people are not treated as if they’re children of God based on their origin is now part of the culture in particular by people who are white, who believe in white supremacy, they now do to others what has always been done to us here.
Press TV: Why? Why has this gone on? Why does it go on inside the United States as you cited some examples and then in another country that they’ve at this point, many are terming an occupation 10 years, going on into the eleventh year? Are we looking at the high up in terms of officials and how their sentiments are and then it trickles down to for example these soldiers at Bagram airbase?
Short: If you respect and love people and understand their right to sovereignty, there would have been no invasion in the first place.
This is about the same relationship of genocide against Indians in the Americas and slavery and genocide against Africans and the Americas and what’s going on in Africa, in Latin America now is a relationship that people who happen to be European feel that the resources of the world is only theirs and the rest of us just happen to be here to be their slaves or to be mistreated.
If you recall the quote when the Taliban was told when they were the governor of Afghanistan that they had an option to let Unicom let a pipeline through their country, they could either be on a cooperative goal to be on their cooperative bombs.
This is a relationship that is 103 years old going back to the British discovering the Masjed Soleiman oilfield in the country of Iran, your country. They recognized 103 years ago that oil would be a strategic factor in the global economy.
So it’s all about a certain group of people hoarding the world’s resources, hating all the other people, dehumanizing them where they don’t get to experience or benefit from resources within their own country and if they resist they’re killed.
You attack their religion, you attack the way they look and those are smokescreens for the fact that it’s about theft. I’m a Christian, the scriptures teach thou shalt not kill, thou shall not steal.
You’re supposed to love your neighbor; these people do not practice this Christianity. They’re practicing predatory, racial white supremacy, capitalism against other nations in the world.
Press TV: Dr. Randy Short, if you can respond to that, what the reverend said there quickly before we move on to other subjects as we are running out of time.
Short: I would agree with him 100 percent. I never assumed that the gentlemen were Christian at all. But there is a mask where people hide behind, Christianity, with Islamophobia here in the United States and I wanted to make it clear that those folks aren’t Christian.
So I agree with you I’m the last person that’s going to say that this country that held some of my ancestors as slaves and this Washington DC is built on land stolen from my tribe, the Piscataway tribe [sub-tribe of the Conoy Native American tribe of Maryland] to call this country Christian.
So I big to differ, I’m not ignorant and I don’t think that you’ve said anything that I disagree with other than the intensity to which I personally understand the problem.
Press TV: Well, when you talk about the problem then why don’t you tell us, based on what has been said so far, what is it that the US is doing in terms of their conduct. I mean do they just have military goals there? They don’t care how US soldiers are executing themselves?
Short: There is several things going on here. First of all I am certain because I have a relative that did the Islamic cultural training for the US military, I am not going to say his name and I have a copy that’s very thorough, this is a man that speaks Arabic.
There is an actual program that they have that is excellent. Now how that is carried out by say people who are in the military because they can’t get jobs in the United States or people who are not viable to the economy when you get people who come from perhaps the inferior intellectual backgrounds.
The military is notorious in this country, in the past at least, for being a place you went when you weren’t able to go to college or didn’t have a skill to get a job. So we don’t always get the best Americans to even serve in the armed services.
I am not saying that’s always the case but there is a stereotype to the volunteer army that the best people don’t necessarily go.
If you get people who are not necessarily mature or well-educated or cultured, aside from the fact that any invasion, any war produces atrocities, I agree with the minister in London.
When you get people with all that conflict and you add it to people who may not be up to par from where they came from, take them to another society, give them guns, have them on drugs- I can’t imagine what these people won’t do.
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