For those who do not know yet, I am from Pakistan. I have lived in North America for almost ten years and experienced multiculturalism to it's fullest.
Through my years in a multicultural society I have learned a great deal on human history and politics- all through independent research and analysis- not what the media taught me or what I was taught in school in North America.
Even what my parents have taught me about Pakistan, Asia or the world no longer influences my political views or knowledge in history; only research and historic facts do.
I've heard a former close family friend say several times "the white man has committed the worst of all crimes."
Perhaps true to some extent, but nevertheless a racist and stereotypical statement no matter how you look at it.
Ironically this family friend said Jews cannot be blamed as a race for what Israel does and have the right of freedom to support any cause they see suitable. I agree with the second statement as well. Jews and Muslims have the right to support any cause they want. But then so should white people. If somebody wants to be a white nationalist, we all assume the comeback of Adolph Hitler. ("white" in this case refers to European descent and not white-skinned people from other parts of the world).
That's what all my family and friends insist when I argue against the defamation of race-based groups. They insist there is only one meaning behind all of it: White racial supremacy. Really?
So with all the Muslim groups we've been participating in from Muslim Canadian congress and others, we must all be associated with Al-Queda and Osama Bin Laden? Is it not? Don't excuse it, because this is exactly what it sounds like by the same standards.
It's simply hypocrisy, there's no two ways to it.
I have also followed the phenomenon of white nationalism even before moving to North America through documentaries and movies. Like everyone else, I swallowed what I was told unquestionably. That white nationalism is all about killing black people and Muslims and Jews.
Through my own independent reading I think I have managed to understand the various categories of white nationalism and modern-day Neo-Nazism.
One is of course the idea of white supremacy and global world dominance, which is what all white human rights activists are labeled as these days by the mass media.
Then there are other groups that express the fear of their culture, ethnicity and future being diminished by the policies of our liberal society. Now imagine if these people were black and felt the same way. Wouldn't we all sympathize with it?
But they are white, so we will never sympathize with them and always brand them "racists."
That is double standards and a very rigid, narrow way of thinking.
From my experience, Western society has learned very little on the lessons of racism and discrimination. Whenever we hear of racism in North America and perhaps most of Western society, people usually think of discrimination against blacks (blacks in this case refers to people of Subsaharan African descent), slavery, discrimination against Jews and the Holocaust.
What about the other ethnic groups that face discrimination in Western society? Even before the September 11th attacks, I recall people in my school in Canada discussing Timothy McVeigh and a young kid made a statement that terrorists have a strange way of thinking; they all come from Iraq.
Now imagine for second if Iraq was a Jewish state or a country of black people. That kid and his parents would get hell for his "politically incorrect" comment. I doubt he'd even be bold enough to be even making such an ignorant statement.
Once a Jew in class had openly said "Christians don't believe in God, they worship idols in a Church."
His opinion, well respected by me. But what does not deserve respect is the fact that if some Christian said the same about the Jews, the chances of him/her being in trouble would be much higher and those who live in a Western country or have lived there know this fact to be true.
The bottom line is we in the Western world have learned nothing. The Neo-Nazis come into this picture from fear of reverse discrimination and double standards.
Many people associate white nationalism with Hitler-style Nazism with a quest to dominate the world. These people live in a dream world.
Today almost nobody wastes their time trying to achieve such an unrealistic goal. The modern white nationalists are indeed a result of reverse discrimination and double standards.
Their nationalism is based on securing their culture and tribes. Some readers may see that as segregationist. Segregationist is if it's by white people, not colored.
Why is it that when non-white Arab countries or non-white countries in general have strict immigration policies, we respect it and don't complain, yet when European countries implement the same law, we shout racists.
It's all out of ignorance. And because we have remained so ignorant to this issues, the white nationalists have come up to fight this and are only increasing.
They fear unconditional immigration and they fear of being branded as racist if they complain about it. If we look everywhere, most countries inhabited by white people are hit with immigration. Why were we Pakistanis not branded as 'racist' when we cracked down on Bangladeshi immigrants that flooded Pakistani cities?
Now if we go back to my point on white countries being hit immigration, reverse racism is on the rise. How does that sound for a future for you and your family and descendants no matter what race you are?
Your country hit with immigration, your people hit with reverse discrimination how would you react?
To stop the rise of Neo-Nazism, we must focus on solving the issue of reverse discrimination. Trying to silence white nationalists and Neo-Nazis will only increase the threat of Neo-Nazism. But we cannot solve the problem until we come out of our ignorance and blame everything on "white discrimination."
Sure discrimination does happen from whites, but we only focus on that. We also do not focus on other people being discriminated against aside from blacks and Jews.
I once read of a boy at school in Canada bullied because his name was Osama. Imagine if that boy was Jewish and bullied on the basis of having a Jewish name or the kid being black and having an African name.
This mentality has to change. The school curriculum forcing kids to learn about he Holocaust and the wickedness of white people will only fuel racial tensions in the future.
Heck I was once forced to read a book on the Holocaust by a teacher because I opposed her pro-Israeli views.
She once did lose control of her emotions in class and said some very nasty things against Muslims. Had it been a Jewish student who had to take the same insulting comments, she would have lost her job.
We have to keep learning about the Holocaust, but not the Native American genocide, not the Armenian genocide or the genocide committed by the Mongols against the people of Eurasia under Genghis Khan and the Mongols.
Maybe if the Armenian genocide was introduced as part of the school curriculum, relations between Turkey and the West would decline. Turkey has been an important ally of NATO and teaching the Armenian genocide would change all that.
Why is it that Germany has been made to apologize publicly to the Jews for the Holocaust, yet Mongolia has never been asked to apologize to China, Pakistan and other Muslim countries in the Middle East and Central Asia for the crimes of it's people under Genghis Khan?
When seeing a documentary on Mongolia I saw a Mongol villager proudly speak of the conquests by Genghis Khan and how it makes him feel proud of being a Mongol.
Imagine if a German made similar comment on the same lines that Hitler's deeds made him proud to be a German.
He'd probably be blamed for the rest of his life for being a racist. This ignorance needs to be pulled out of our education system and some real education needs to be implemented such as the issue of reverse discrimination.
If we don't I can grantee in the future, racial tensions will skyrocket and we'll have nothing but our own ignorance to blame.
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