Answer Of The Void (mp3)
Now Zero track from Clan Analogue EP 3.
This track is a Now:Zero song "Answer Of The Void", from the Clan Analogue EP 3, circa 1993 or 1994 I think. Dan Rossi of Electroteque is working on a remix which I'll also put on the blog in the coming days.
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'War' On Terror
Pointless emotional terminology
What is called Terrorism has a long history in the 20th Century. From Serbian Anarchists assassinating Franz Ferdinand, Bolsheviks executing their democratic socialist rivals, fascist brown shirts running the streets and beating their enemies, the Klu Klux Klan, Weathermen, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) - the Hindu extremists who assassinated Ghandi, the Tamil Tigers (the world's foremost exponents of the suicide bombing), the Red Army Fraction, Red Brigades, PLO, IRA, UDF, ETA, SWAPO, Umkhonto we Sizwe (the military wing of the ANC), violent Christian fundamentalist anti-abortionists blowing up nurses and doctors, right-wing gun-crazy militia members blowing up Government workers and children - the list of murderous opposition to peaceful democratic values from non-State actors just goes on and on throughout recent history, and there are even cases were Western governments have forgiven or at least forgotten such crimes (the ANC for example). However the point is that Islamic extremists have no monopoly on such violence, or are the only holders of anti-Western, anti-democratic values.
Therefore it is in my view a completely false characterisation to say there is a "war on Islamic extremism", "war on terror", etc. Democratic society ought to be vigilant against all extremism, that is sure. And we ought to especially oppose those who seek to do actual harm to our citizens. However it is scare-mongering at the very least to say it is a war of survival of the order of the Second World War, or even a war of the type fought against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It is not a war. There are no armies opposing each other in the field, outside of Afghanistan and arguably, Iraq. Terrorist cells must be found and neutralised, their leaders captured, their sources of funding destroyed, their ideology educated against and shown to be the hateful medieval superstition that it is. however to lose sight of the actual facts of the struggle by employing pointless, emotional terminology such as "War with Islam" or "Clash of Civilisations" can only serve to muddy the already murky waters and prevent us from holding the actual struggle - and the clear path to winning it - up to the cold, hard, clear light of reason.