The Zimmerblog Archive - A Pacifist’s Warning

September 11, 2005 by wfzimmerman | No comments

The Zimmerblog Archive - A Pacifist’s Warning:

When the wishful thinking ends.

WASHINGTON: Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy, the pacifist nuclear physicist from Pakistan, has predicted that Islamic extremists will one day use a nuclear device on the American mainland.

In an article in Toronto Star at the weekend, Hoodbhoy writes, “Today, the United States rightly lives in fear of the bomb it created because the decision to use it - if and when it becomes available - has already been made. But this time around, pious men with beards will decide when and where on American soil atomic weapons are to be used. Shadowy groups, propelled by fanatical hatreds, scour the globe for fissile materials. They are not in a hurry; time is on their side. They are confident they will one day breach Fortress America. And what then? The world shall plunge headlong into a bottomless abyss of reaction and counter-reaction whose horror the human mind cannot comprehend.”

According to Hoodbhoy, a professor at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, “The United States has bombed 21 countries since 1948, recently killing thousands of people on the pretext of chasing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and claims to be a force for democracy despite a long history of supporting the bloodiest of dictators. Do Americans have even a clue of the anger that seethes in the hearts of people across the globe? Do they care? They now need to, because two nascent fundamentalisms - that of George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden - are heading toward a dreadful collision.”

The full article in the Toronto Star.”

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