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Edward Snowden and national security

FOR the past few weeks many allies of the US are furious because their leaders' phones are tapped and National Security Agency conducting surveillance programs.

To understand why US is so zealous to preserve its dominance as the sole power of the world by engaging itself in spying activities, we have to revisit again the Huntington's Clash of Civilisations theory.

Since 9/11, Samuel P. Huntington's Clash of Civilisations theory has become vital to analyse the pattern of global conflicts and issues involving international relations.

Huntington wants the West to know the 'enemy' in order to safeguard the interests of the West on global affairs. The fear that he has can be further observed in his argument that Eastern Civilisations will collaborate and eventually go against the West in future.

These negative projections are obviously a collective and well devised plan of the West with the intention of undermining the East.

Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are the end product of Huntington's theory. Both of them originated from West and had depth knowledge of the West using various methods and modes to infringe the fundamental rights of the people.

Snowden, who worked for US National Security Agency revealed that the US is using surveillance program to collect emails, chat logs and other data from notable software companies.

Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group Wikileakes, exposed various government documents, especially from US that indicated unauthorised surveillance activities.

The issue of morality and ethical expectations in handling of Snowden and Assange are not under consideration of the West. By compelling other countries to extradite both of them to US had showed the mind of the imperialist.

In the name of national security and determination to control the global affairs, US can infringe the basic fundamental rights of people and ignored the consensus on international norms to safeguard their sole interest.

Even though Malaysia is one of the closest allies of US, we have the right to protect our nation by not allowing these kind of activities here that would jeopardise our national security.

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The above opinion was published - The Sun

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