Would the world be changing ? Whereas the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran invited Thierry Meyssan, president of the Network Voltaire and journalist, to defend(forbid) a conception of the international relations based on the right and the arbitrage, George W. Bush called up to the "crusade" against " the devilish Axis

In an article published in 1990 by Atlantic Monthly, entitled " The Roots of Muslim Rage " , the islamologue and the former(ancient) responsible for intelligences the British, Bernard Lewis, envisaged a push of the radical Islam, provoking eventually a " clash of civilizations ", that is a confrontation between the USA and the Arabian - Moslem world. It(he) forecast then the American victory, the " libanisation " of the States of the Near East and the intensification of Israel. In the time, Lewis's analysis appeared to refer to the manipulation of the Moslem Brothers by the English services and states - uniens.

This strategic vision was later developed by Samuel Huntington, a former(ancient) planificateur of the National concil of safety(security). In two goods(articles) henceforth famous, entitled " The Clash of Civilizations ? " And " The West Unique, Not Universal ", published in 1993 and 1996 in Foreign Affairs, the review of Council one Foreign Relations, Huntington suggested assuring(insuring) the dominion of the United States on the rest of the world by dividing this one it several civilizations, by aggregating the Judeo - Christian world around the USA and by preventing any coalition against them, by arousing a war between civilizations so defined and by delivering battle against the Arabian - Moslem civilization.

Huntington's options in international relations can be with difficulty dissociated from the choices in home policy. In a work appeared in 1957, The Soldier and the State, it(he) made(did) the apology of an imperial vision of the USA and pleaded for the submission of the democratic order to a praetorian nurse consisted of the military elite states - unienne. In 1975, it(he) drafted for the trilatérale Committee(commission) a report dedicated to the evolution of the USA title Crisis of Democracy. It(he) recommended there a more elitist company(society), where the access to universities would be rarefied and the controlled freedom of the media. Today, Huntington is the whooping cough of the US extreme right. This one finances the pulpit of "government" which it(he) holds(detains) in Harvard. Although having no more governmental functions(offices) officials, Samuel Huntington occupies responsibilities within the device of influence of CIA : he is notably an administrator of Freedom House.

From June, 1996, CIA staged the clash of civilizations notably thanks to Oussama Ben Laden. Recruited by William Colby, Ben Laden had managed for CIA the financing by the USA of the first war of Afghanistan against the Soviet citizens. Then, it(he) had neutralized the opponents of the operation " Storm of the desert " by gathering(reuniting) them in useless " Arabic and Islamic popular Conferences ". Ben Laden called up to the jihad against America by publishing an epistle " For expel the polytheists of Saudi Arabia ", then by creating, in 1998 , the " international Islamic Forehead(front) against the Jews and the crusaders ". But these artificial attempts did not succeed in mobilizing the Moslem crowds more worried to free(release) the Palestinian territories that to lead one claimed holy war against the United States. Late, it(he) obtained an appearance of clerical legitimization of its(his) calls(appeals) to the jihad thanks to its(his) alliance with the spiritual leader of the brotherhood of Taliban, the mollah Omar.

Since September 11, 2001, Samuel Huntington's propositions form the official doctrine of the American Empire. To stage them, George W. Bush chose to declare the war in Afghanistan, not by pronouncing a political short speech of the White House, but by calling to the "crusade" during a funeral ceremony in memory victims of September 11, in the national Cathedral of Washington.

To popularize this doctrine, CIA aroused a work of intellectual justification within an association ad hoc, Institute for American Values. This one spread(diffused) an obvious referee in the question that settles(arises) the public opinion states - unienne persuaded to have been a victim of foreign terrorists: " Why do the Islamists hate us? ". The answer is obviously contained in the question : they hate us because our values are those of the Good and that they embody the Evil. The manifesto, signed by sixty academics by whom naturally Samuel Huntington, was in its entirety published in April, 2002 in big newspapers in the USA and in Europe - and for our shame, in France, by The World. It(he) aroused annoyed reactions to the United States, in Saudi Arabia and in Germany where against manifestoes were published by the other intellectuals. After all, on August 8, Institute for American Values answered the criticisms by a new sales leaflet presenting the war either as a just retort to attempts, but as a moral duty in front of the Islam. Institute for American Values, up to here known for its campaigns against the abortion and the sexual freedom, is unmistakably bound(connected) to a powerful catholic extremist brotherhood, the Opus Dei, which widely cooperated with CIA and FBI, during the Cold war, in the fight against the communism in Europe and in Americas.

Another instrument of the cultural war which precedes the military war against the Arabian - Moslem world is the consultative council of the politics(policy) of defence. This body consists of around thirty members, directly named(appointed) by the secretary to the Defence. During the meeting of July 10, 2002, his president, Richard Perle (besides director of Jerusalem Post) had sought a statement of a researcher of Rand Corporation on the subject " Put Al-Saud outside Arabia ". Flights(leaks) were voluntarily organized so that the American press can know the bottom of the thought of the Pentagon without that this one has to assume the formulation of it. The speaker developed the idea that the Arabic world would be incapable to realize the industrial and numeric(digital) revolutions and would be condemned in of perpetual political crises because of the handicap which establishes(constitutes) the Moslem culture. Refusing to admit the hypocrisy of the Islam, the Arabs turn(return) their fury against the West, and particularly against the Americans. Since their independence, the Arabic countries were capable only of producing wars and of making(doing) children, so that the increase in population tends to export in the rest of the world their crisis of civilization. There is nothing of amazing, pursued the speaker, in what this barbaric world for whom the violence holds place of politics(policy) gave birth to the international terrorism. And the council to conclude that Saudi Arabia, host of the holy places and so geographic centre of the Islam, establishes(constitutes) the " pit(core) of the evil ".

This boorishly slanderous description of the Islam was widely resumed by the Anglo-Saxon press to condition(package) the public opinions, persuade to them in the evil spells of the Islam and mobilize them for the "crusade" . The appeal to the pseudo-flights(pseudo-leaks) to popularize an idea is not without calling back(reminding) the way the same political leaders, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and the others treated(manipulated) the American public opinion by staging formerly claimed Soviet danger of atomic war by means of the works of the " Committee on the present danger ".

Finally, on the occasion of the first anniversary(birthday) of the attempts of September 11, the government states - unien will spread(diffuse) on the television of propaganda spotlights aiming at fooling that the freedom of cult of the Christians is threatened in America by fanatical Moslems.



Base the international relations on the right



In front of this strategy of the hatred, the conservation of the peace requires(demands) intellectuals' initiatives to deepen(fathom) the mutual understanding and the development of the cultural relations among what one indicates(appoints) as the Arabian - Moslem world and what one indicates(appoints) as the Judeo - Christian world.

It is obvious that if I take responsibility for the huntingtonienne terminology, it is by convenience of language and not by acceptance of its concepts. So, for me who am French, he can not exist of distinction between these two worlds, even when the Mediterranean civilization is the generous fruit of the contribution inextricably mixed with the Jews, with Chrétien, with Moslems, and many others else. In Samuel Huntington's analyses, I set the pride of France, this country where not only different communities can coexist, but this country where Jews, Chrétien, Moslem, and Free Thinkers can live together, work together and get married together in the biggest respect for the personal freedom of consciousness. For the Network Voltaire, which is situated in the lineage of the humanist and republican project, the huntingtonienne strategy is not that of the war between civilizations, it is that of a generalized civil war.


The conservation of the peace requires(demands) also efforts of every State to have a dialogue with the others in the respect for the appropriate(clean) identities and for the particular convictions, notably religious. It is not there an easy task and nobody can settle(arise) here in donor of lessons because we are every bearers and victims of our prejudices. This work was notably begun by UNESCO which organized a world Year of the dialogue between civilizations, in which you participated, as well as of numerous Islamic States, whereas the United States refused to contribute to it.

During the last two centuries, France - and particularly by the voice(vote) of Radicals as the Nobel prizes of the Peace Léon Bourgeois and Aristide Briand - promoted the idea to sit(base) the international relations on the contract and the right. She(it) spread(diffused) the ideal of a world where the human beings would be aware(conscious) of links of interdependence which unite them, would assume this solidarity, and would agree to settle(adjust) their conflicts peacefully in front of classes(courses) of arbitrage. Of the Arbitration of The Hague to the international penal Court, this idea made(did) its road. She(it) is shared by most of the States today, but exactly fought(disputed) by the USA which recognize the other legitimacy no than theirs, which hear using(wearing out) their power to impose their will on the rest of the world, and which treat(manipulate) the religious feeling to arouse the chaos.

Let us understand(include) indeed : we can avoid the shock of civilizations staged by the Empire states - unien only by giving up some in the crusade, the others in the jihad, and by substituting for the conflicts stemming from historic incomprehensions, the dialogue based on the right. We should observe that the holy wars are not any more today than instruments of the strategy of dominion states - unienne.

It is not a question of denying the religious fact and the questioning which it(he) arouses, but to distinguish the convictions which move the individuals and the peoples of the relations whom they can establish among them. So, the disastrous strategy of clash of civilizations sends back(dismisses) to us in our personal and collective responsibilities. And our moral requirement instructs never to instrument us the religions in political purposes at the risk of betraying the ideal peace-loving persons of it and provoking the ruin of the human race.