US President Barack Obama discovered evidence on Al-Qaeda organization's “weakness” in the recent footage by the group's leader Osama Ben Laden, while the United States, alongside all airports in Western countries, is in a state of alert that is rather more akin to panic. This “discovery” makes us feel sorry for the president who is seeking any accomplishment to pride himself with, as his conclusion defies the suicide explosions in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, and Al-Qaeda's expansion in Yemen, where the organization seems to be in the stage of defending its hideouts and wagers on depleting the Yemeni Army with the Houthis' rifles. If the volcano of suicide-bombers suggests a state of weakness, then what are the signs of power? Unless Obama meant that the United States has been safe from Al-Qaeda's strikes so far. While no one questions the president's endeavor to create an “enemy,” one who appears in the slogans of the war - the chapters of which are renewed by that organization – the fact is that the policy of the White House which promised the Muslims with an extended hand, retreats once again in favor of the egotistic self-protection policy of the United States. What about the victims in the region, Muslims and Christians? What about the Christians of Palestine and Iraq which the Israeli oppression and Al-Qaeda's bombs do not distinguish from the Muslims? Washington has returned (assuming it had ever stopped using it) to the policy of power as the only means to fight terrorism and terrorists in the region, renewing the policy of keeping the war far from the US territories, and intensifying intelligence efforts dealing with the American Muslims, considering them a fifth column that should be detected before it is too late. The repercussions of the battle waged in the West on the burqa [a piece of clothing that covers woman from head to foot] and niqab [face veil] comes in the framework of the fifth column theory, where the majority [of Western countries] gave precedence to the priority of security over freedoms and democratic rights, irrespective of the price of the clash of civilizations which is moving on a strong pace, despite the demise of the advocates of the open war on the Islamists. In fact, this majority has become under the control of proposals that are close to chauvinism. For example, they hold the emigrant communities in Europe responsible for unemployment and accuse them of covering up the “column” of the extremist Islamists, and in some cases, funding intercontinental terrorist activities. Behind the “battle” of the burqa and niqab – after the campaign on the mosques in Switzerland – the rightwing extremism hides. The foreigners fear a return to the policy of ghettos – at best – or initiating collective deportation campaigns. This suggests nothing but failure in “rationalizing” the war on terrorism, as millions of Muslims are trapped between Western hostility and fundamentalist threat and security fears in the developed countries. This cancels the option of safe democratic havens for those fleeing the hell of never-ending conflicts in the region and the prisons of extremism. It is a new chapter of the confrontation ignited by the September 11 events, a confrontation that would not have found a paved way had the West addressed the roots of terrorism and supported plans to combat hunger, poverty, backwardness, and illiteracy. These problems will not be resolved by overlooking corruption. Most importantly, these problems will not be resolved, regardless of the grants, aid, and trainings for the security forces the United States and Europe provide, while at the same time, they continue to be tolerant with the thefts of the land and history in Palestine. Hasn't this tolerance – or collusion – become a weapon to fight Al-Qaeda organization and its likes, those who only provided new excuses for the Israeli campaigns for the sake of the “Jewish State” project? If the West and the United States in particular are yet to have any enticing offer for the Taliban Movement – despite their approval to engage the movement in the Afghan Government – doesn't the movement's reliance on its suicide-bombers to reveal its power represent promises for Al-Qaeda with a great haven under Taliban's spear? Yemen is another Arab specimen in which Al-Qaeda expanded while the government was busy with the problems of the opposition and the latter was busy watching the government getting into trouble and overlooking the poverty clusters in the south since the “war of secession” ended. Before London's Conference for supporting Yemen, Sanaa called for supporting Yemen in political, economic, and security fields. What are the obligations of the government? Certainly, according to diplomats, the crisis of confidence with the United States and its intentions is huge, and the US support will not be enough to erase doubts over its objectives. Certainly, the crisis of the opposition in any Arab country is represented by one dilemma: continuing to increase the crises of the government until it sinks divides the country and makes it a valued prey for further infiltrations and extremism.
