AZADLIG: AZERBAIJANI AUTHORITIES FIND NEW PERPETRATORS OF ITS FAILURES: APART FROM ‘ARMENIAN LOBBY’ ALSO APPEAR ‘ISLAMOPHOBES’
16:19 17/03/2015 >> SOCIETY
It has been a while since the authorities in Azerbaijan have been
trying to present the critical articles, published in Western
prestigious outlets about the corruption of the ruling regime, as
‘the order of the Armenian lobby.’ The situation has reached to a
point where the authorities in Azerbaijan claim that the US president
Barack Obama is ‘controlled by the Armenian lobby’, and the opposition
of the country is ‘funded by the Armenians and get grants from them,’
Azerbaijani newspaper Azadlig writes.
However, as a result we get quite a controversial picture: from
the upper echelons of power to the MPs, the officials in Azerbaijan
unanimously convince that ‘Armenia is starving,’ and the governmental
TV channels claim, “Armenia is on the edge of utter poverty.” Hence,
according to the logic of the Azerbaijani authorities, ‘Armenia,
moribund in hunger and poverty,’ rules over the whole world and
funds a number of well-known international organizations. Moreover,
adhering to such position, Azerbaijani authorities unwittingly confess
that they lose Armenia in foreign politics, the newspaper writes.
Now, as Azadlig has it, ahead of the European Games, the Azerbaijani
authorities have made up a new way to justify the crackdowns on their
own citizens, apparently realizing at last that the ‘Armenian version’
already comes to be overtly ridiculous to the population. Apart
from the accusations addressed to Armenia and Armenian lobby, the
authorities have set on spreading the thesis of ‘Islamophobia’. So,
according to the new version, the criticism in the foreign press is
‘the result of the Islamophobia of the West and the activities of
the anti-Islamic circles.’
According to the new tactics of the authorities, the prestigious
outlets of Germany, the UK, France, the US, as well as international
organizations speak out against Azerbaijan only out of anti-Islamic
motives, the article reads. Nonetheless, even this rhetoric contains
obvious controversy: the girls are not allowed to go to school
in hijabs because of the ban of the Azerbaijani authorities, and
well-known theologians in Azerbaijan are behind bars on trumped-up
charges together with the political prisoners.
Summing up, Azadlig concludes that the present authorities in
Azerbaijan are ready to call the whole world their enemy just to go
on with their politics of robbing the population and violating the
human rights in the country.
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