Media and Manipulation Dr Nazir Ahmad Zargar Media is regarded as fourth estate or watchdog of society.

It manipulates and bu ilds public opinion and has become an essential tool for mind-control. The world we live in today is media-saturated where the communications are insta ntaneous and The news has become highly pervasive and news agencies and their corp orate and government sponsors are competing for the hearts and minds of the audi ences they target. The world, today, is governed by Israel and the West. The United States, after t he decline of the Soviet Union, came out as a political giant and guardian of th e Western tradition. The worldwide hegemony of the United States, and the establ ishment of its world orderGlobalization with its imperial character has generated gr eat tendency in the common American psyche to consider the whole world as one co untrys imperium. But, as rightly put by Edward W. Said in his covering Islam, New York, 1977, Whereas most other great cultural groupings appear to have accepted the United States role, it is only from within the Islamic world that signs of d etermined resistance are still strong. Therefore we have an efflorescence of cul tural and religious attacks on Islam from individuals and groups whose interests are informed with the idea of the West (and the United States, as its leader) a s the standard for enlightened modernity. Meanwhile, as a historical reality, it is Israel, which exploits the American re sources for fulfilling its plans. Former American President, Harry S Trumans word s: I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now, I bel ieve it has a glorious future before it not just as another sovereign nation, bu t as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization leave least doubt rega rding Israels role in shaping the New World OrderGlobalization. The Jews have been planning since a long time to bring the whole world under the ir sway and, in fact, Judaism has now emerged as the most closely organized powe r on earth. It forms a state whose citizens are unconditionally loyal wherever t hey may be and whether rich or poor. The name of this state is All-Judaan. How the government of this State is being realised and organised on the US soil can be gauged by considering the words of Henry Ford. In his The International Jew, Teh ran, 1997, Ford writes, All-Judaan has its vice governments in every capital. Hav ing wreaked its vengeance on Germany, it will go to conquer other nations. Brita in it already has. France and Russia it has long held. The United States with it s good-natured tolerance of all races offered a promising field. All-Judaan is h ere. The scene of operations changes, but the Jew is the same throughout the cen turies. It should therefore, not be astonishing to learn that the international o rganisation of the United Nations acts, in fact, as one of the vehicles through which the Jews accomplish their international maneuverings. The Jewish people fi nd it very convenient to materialise their plans through the UN. The same view i s expressed by a well-known Jew lawyer of New York, Henry Klein in his Zions Rul e the World, New York, 1948. He writes: The United Nations is Zionism. It is the super-government mentioned many times in the Protocols of the learned elders of Zion, promulgated between 1897-1905. In addition to the UN, the Jews serve their cause through so many other agencies and institutions. For example, the international secret organization of the Fre emasons, a Jewish movement the members of which enthusiastically work for promot ing Jewish interests and purposes throughout the world. The Freemason movement has its local societies in every country called Lodges. The purpose of the creation of these Lodges is stated in Protocol XV thus: . We shall create and multiply Freemasonic Lodges in all countries of the world, a bsorb into them all who may become or are prominent in public activity, for in t hese Lodges we shall bring under one central administration, known to us alone a nd to all others absolutely unknown, which will be composed of our Learned Elder s. The Lodges will have their representatives who will serve to screen the above -mentioned administration of Masonry and from whom will issue the watchword and

programme. Their composition shall be made up of all strata of society. . It is natural that we and no other should lead Masonic activities, for we know whether we are leading, we know that the final goal of every form of activity wh ereas they have knowledge of nothing. The main power in the hands of the Jews for establishing All-Judaan and projecti ng their ideas and ideology is the Press with capital and journalism joined in i t. The Protocol II states: In the hands of the States if to-day there is a great force that creates the move ment of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part played by the Pre ss is to keep pointing out requirements supposed to be indispensable, to give vo ice to the complaints of the people, to express and to express discontent. It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation. But t he goyim** States have not known how to make use of this force; and it has falle n into our hands. Through the Press we have gained the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade; thanks to the Press we have got the gold in ou r hands, notwithstanding that we have had to gather it out of oceans of blood an d tears (emphasis added). But it has paid us, though we have sacrificed many of our people. Each victim on our side is worth in the sight of God a thousand goyi m. Keeping in view the Zionist purpose behind the New World Order contrived by the US, the age-old hostility of the Jews against the Muslims, and the latters resist ance against the American hegemonistic behaviour, the Western media, being the m ain weapon in the hands of the Jews, has been making lethal attacks on the Musli ms by demonising them and maligning their religion in the world. It is in this b ackdrop that there has been an intense focus on the Muslims and Islam in the Ame rican and Western media. The irony of the fact is that instead of scholarship, we find only journalists m aking extravagant statements, which are instantly picked up and further dramatis ed by the media. The victimisation of the Muslims and Islam by a willful and cal culated campaign of misinformation and misrepresentation is aptly brought to for e by Edward Said by saying that malicious generalisations about Islam have becom e the last acceptable form of denigration of foreign culture in the West; what i s said about the Muslim mind, or character, or religion, or culture as a whole c annot be said in mainstream discussion about Africans, Jews, other Orientals, or Asians. Today, you mention the word militant or terrorist, the picture that immediat ely haunts is that of a man, young or old, with long beard having a turban or a cap on his head wearing a Khan dress (a loose dress of a long shirt and ankle-hi gh trousers) with the verses of the holy Quran on his lips. One should therefore, feel no astonishment to find that the Sunday New York Times Weak in Review headli nes its January 21, 1996, issue with: The Red Menace is Gone. But heres Islam. Yes, it is the Muslim community which is directly attacked by the Western media, but, in fact, the later has made great impact on the value-based human society and other cultures. There is no gainsaying the fact that globalisationthe media-s aturated New World Order, by overlying and penetrating the traditional cultures of the world, by removing socio-cultural and national barriers and by minimising distances, leaves no part of the human society and no corner of the world unaff ected. This all has rendered the contemporary mass media structures, practices and processes with no framework of their own for journalism apart from that the world media borrows from the Western media which, in turn, is rooted in the ideo logies and philosophies of the West. The social responsibility theory on which t he secular or Western media practices are based is rooted in pluralistic individ ualism. It is not free from government regulations. Being based upon the ideolog y that the public has the right to know and upon the inherently immoral and unethi cal theory that nothing is sacred, the Western media has dangerously eroded all me dia ethics by projecting lies, distortions, bias, propaganda, favouratism, sensa tionalism, trivialisation, vulgarity, sexism, racism, character assassination, d eception, invasion on privacy and what not. Unlike other communities, which have accepted the Status quo, the Muslims constitute the only group which, being rel igiously and socially responsible to enjoin good and forbid from bad. They feel the pain and get deeply agonised when they are directly hurt or when the moral v

alues are touched. But, since they dont have their own framework of journalism, t hey are not in a position to pinpoint the loopholes and faults present in the We stern media. It is therefore their bounden duty to rise to the occasion and deve lop their own forms of media to erase confusion and misunderstandings regarding Islam from the minds of people on one hand, and to guide the masses towards the right direction on the other. They must build their own control over the sources of information and should necessarily base their journalistic code of ethics on the divinely revealed principles of Islam to counter the Western Monopoly over the mass media. At the same time the media agencies must shun cynicism to think that ethics and journalism are incompatible. They must, in order to substantiate their impartiali ty and objectivity, free themselves from the influences of the corporate class of t he West and admit that like the people of the West, people of other nations, par ticularly the Muslims, do also possess soul; they also feel the pain when they a re hurt. There should be no dichotomy of the Jew and goyim for the human nature is same. If people in the West need freedom, people living elsewhere in other pa rts of the globe need it equally. So far as humanity, human rights and human val ues are concerned the West is no different from the rest. The Western must air the sufferings of the third world people, particularly the Muslims who are directly victimized by the policies of the West. Feedback: drnazirzargar@yahoo.co.in