That ghost appears to the UAE as Fahreddin Pasha

Ghosts are phenomena that, even if known to have no reality, are in one way or another influential in people's lives. A phenomenon, that is, in its Ottoman Turkish designation, zahiriye, that is, the apparent, that is, our perceptions of a thing.

Beyond a certain point, whether a thing has an original reality does not matter; what matters is how it is reflected in our minds, what kind of acceptance it receives in our lives, and how, by this means, it affects human psychology and actions.

Ghosts and revenants appear, at most, as a "perception" in the lives of those who have an unsettled account with the owner of that ghost from the past. It affects them, it frightens them. It is often the subject of films. In most of those films, those who fear the ghost or revenant most are the murderers who committed a wrong in their time against the body of that revenant. In fact, what resurrects those dead in their minds is none other than their own sense of guilt. One knows one's own crime and fears that one day the dead will come back to life in this world and call one to account.

It is impossible that the cruelties committed against innocent Palestinian children for the sake of rampant Israelis, and a theft that tries to take possession of Jerusalem, the common heritage of humanity, trampling all sanctities underfoot, whoever commits it with whatever banditry, would not leave a deep mark on the conscience. That conscience makes the ghost of the Palestinian children roam over the US in the form of Jerusalem.

When Marx said in the mid-19th century "A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of communism", he was speaking of the sufferings European capitalism inflicted on people and of the end that exploitation was preparing for capitalism. It was the ghost of the oppressed classes produced by capitalism's own fears that would prepare capitalism's end.

The fears that appear today as Islamophobia are precisely the ghost of the oppressed children of Islam, thought to have been ruthlessly massacred a hundred years ago. This ghost reminds them of all the crimes committed against Islam. The worry that they will sooner or later be called to account for these crimes besets them. To escape this, they become even more ill-tempered, and with their arrogant attitudes more and more aggressive. They stick the label of terrorism on Muslims. They know themselves very well. They will, in their own minds, hide from view the crimes they committed against the Muslims they had already killed.

A ghost is haunting the world. The ghost of Jerusalem, the ghost of Islam. Moreover, this is a ghost that has reality.

Evidently both the emir and the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) fear this ghost. That ghost now appears to him as Fahrettin Pasha.

The UAE has a share in the innocent blood spilled in almost every part of the Islamic world in recent years. By inciting, organizing and financing a military coup against the president elected in Egypt's first free and relatively cleanest elections, it caused the blood of Egypt's oppressed people to be spilled.

Afterwards, by sending Haftar, financing him and cooperating with Egypt, it made instability and civil war prevail in Libya, which, years later, had been freed from dictatorship, had taken ownership of its own will and had begun a process of national reconciliation and dialogue.

In Yemen too, it was again the UAE's plots that reversed a people's revolution process that had taken place and dragged the country into a civil war not easy to get out of.

If there is turmoil in Tunisia, the UAE is certainly behind it.

There was an attempt at turmoil in Morocco; when it was traced, the UAE's fingerprints were seen.

It is behind the coup attempt brought out a few months ago against Omar al-Bashir in Sudan and the attempts to drag Sudan into instability.

In Turkey too, the UAE's footprint has been found in all the coup or turmoil attempts carried out since 7 February by FETÖ or the PKK.

This habit of plotting and intervention has become so widespread that on the streets of the Arab world the name Imarat is now pronounced Mu'amarat, meaning plot.

We used to wonder what the cause of this UAE bustle, this zealous aggression against Islam, might be. Where had a fear of Islam heavier even than Israel's or the US's come to haunt the children of the UAE dynasty, most of whom are named Muhammad?

Why does it so willingly play the role of the Trojan Horse of the Zionist program in the Islamic world? A bond ties it to Israel and the Masonic world organization, that is very clear by now, but despite these bonds there must have been another cause of this impulsive aggression.

The UAE foreign minister's endorsing and sharing from his own account a tweet about Fahrettin Pasha came as the most reasonable explanation of these fears.

The UAE cannot escape its own history, the pursuit of its conscience, the guilt of the crimes it committed with treason a century ago. That is why it attacks harder than the US or Israel. Without even feeling the need to hide itself any longer, it attacks in the most merciless and lawless way. The ghost of Fahrettin Pasha is haunting it. It is trying to get rid of it. The more it tries to get rid of it, the more it is caught by its own past.

As the strong voice of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a hope for oppressed peoples in the Islamic world, rises, it echoes in its ear like "the voice of Fahrettin Pasha, who has come to call to account its betrayal of the Turks, the ummah and the homeland of Islam". As the voice rises, its discomfort grows still more. For that reason, as if firing bullets at the phantom of Fahrettin Pasha in helplessness and panic, it attacks Erdoğan and Turkey.

It was in a way good that it thus brought Fahrettin Pasha onto the agenda. Thanks to this, people had the opportunity to get to know up close a covered-up murder and the victim of that murder, Fahrettin Pasha, and his mission. And through those who betrayed him, they came to understand better the inherited role of the UAE today.

History is, after all, a two-sided kind of knowledge. Sometimes the past is read in the light of the present, and sometimes the past sends its ghosts to the present.