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America as the New “Great Satan”
America as the New “Great Satan”

Author(s): Petr Pelikán
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Přítomnost

Summary/Abstract: “Without exception, all Arab nationalists, irrespective of class, realized that the path to their holy and highly righteous aim is obscured by one powerful enemy, which may take any shape or form. This horrid enemy, which is responsible for the blood of thousands of men; which ordered entire Arab territories, blossoming towns and villages to be plundered, burned and destroyed; which dragged tens of thousands of Arab nationalists into concentration camps on remote islands. This horrid enemy hates anything Arab and turned some parts of Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and other Arab lands into desolate graveyards of nameless Arab freedom fighters. This enemy was and is merciless, egoistic, bloody capitalism. Whether it was represented by the colorful English flag, French tricolore, or the Jewish Star of David, it was always the same, with the same malignant accompanying factors. All Arab nationalists knew that the sun of their freedom and independence is obscured only by Great Britain, France and their real masters – the Jews of the world, who wish to make history and who have made it until recently”1 (March 1943, the Czech inter-war Muslim Council, Hadji Mohamed Abdullah Brikcius).

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 53-58
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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