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  • BAKU: USA, Christians And Zionists Are To Blame For All, Our Islamis

    USA, CHRISTIANS AND ZIONISTS ARE TO BLAME FOR ALL, OUR ISLAMISTS ARGUE
    by F. Teymurxanli

    Zerkalo
    Jan 31 2008
    Azerbaijan

    "Our departure from Islamic values is the source of all our
    troubles." This concise and brief statement might aptly open and
    conclude a story about yesterday's news conference organized by the
    Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA). The theme under discussion was
    "Occupation of Azerbaijani lands as a result of the international
    community's policy of double standards". Yet out of respect for IPA
    members we will give the readers a fuller report on the event.

    The IPA press secretary, Akif Heydarov, set out his vision of the
    Karabakh problem as follows. "We have always spoken for our occupied
    lands to be liberated at any cost. The Azerbaijani people should at
    last unite and re-conquer their territories". The developments have
    shown, he said, that the international community including the Minsk
    Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
    [OSCE] are taking no efforts to settle the Karabakh problem. "We
    should pin our hopes just on ourselves," Heydarov added.

    Then the news conference took an odd course. IPA chairman Movsum
    Samadov took the floor to condemn the Zionist world waging war against
    Islam. He touched upon too wide a range of problems from the Prophet
    Muhammad cartoons to articles by Rafiq Tagi in which the author
    insulted God's last envoy.

    For some unclear reasons again, our Islamists paid the greatest
    attention to the problem of Palestinians suffering "from Israel's
    aggression". Still the organizers would recall our own problems now
    and again. "Europe is indifferent to the destiny of Palestinians
    who have been suffering from Israeli aggression for more than half
    a century. So one can safely say that the Karabakh problem is of no
    importance for the West altogether," Movsum Samadov said.

    Apart from this, participants in the event voiced an idea that is
    difficult to quarrel with, precisely, that the Azerbaijani people are
    unprepared for war. They are not ready to regain our occupied lands
    at the cost of their sons' lives.

    Any patriotic spirit among Azerbaijanis is out of the question, IPA
    deputy chairman Eldar Samadov said in his speech. "There is not a
    single billboard in Baku to reflect the whole truth about Nagornyy
    Karabakh," he said.

    All the blame should be laid, according to Islamists, on the West in
    general, the USA in particular, the Christian world and the damned
    Zionists. But is it really right to blame all that on the West,
    the Zionists and the Christian world?

    Anyway, the political analyst Hikmat Hacizada holds another view. "I
    think the Armenians are the first to be blamed for the Karabakh
    problem," Hacizada said in an interview with Zerkalo. According to
    Hacizada, it is the West that takes every effort to resolve the
    protracted conflict. "The problem is that the West is just short
    of strength to settle this conflict. The West is far away while
    Russia is next door to this region. Therefore it is just Russia that
    plays a dominant role in setting back the Karabakh settlement. The
    Islamic Party blames all that on the West because of its leadership's
    inadequate approach to settling existing problems," Hacizada said.

    Meanwhile it should be pointed out that the Minsk Group of the OSCE
    has shown its inability to settle the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict
    ever since it was set up.

    Hacizada expressed his attitude to the Minsk Group's activity in the
    following way. "To start with, the Minsk Group was based on wrong
    principles, on a wrong premise from the very outset. The premise is as
    follows: Armenia and Azerbaijan have quarrelled and some moderators,
    not even judges, will come and help to settle the conflict between
    the two states. This approach is wrong. It has resulted in Russia,
    one of the main initiators of the Karabakh conflict, being co-president
    of the Minsk Group. Should Russia work against itself? It's absurd."

    Hacizada also said that the Minsk Group has the authority to mediate
    but not to judge. "So this structure may only assist but not coerce
    in conflict settlement," he said.

    So some people blame all our troubles on Russia while others do
    on the West. It is very easy to seek someone to blame outside and
    thereby acquit oneself of one's own responsibility for what is going
    on. Nonetheless we should not forget Balzac saying that conscience
    is a stick with which everybody tries to strike someone else but not
    themselves. Therefore let us try and recall our own responsibility
    and conscience. That might help us resolve our problems?
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