Q. Targeting the multinational companies, disrupting their operations and profitability, will cause suffering for the Muslims who work for those companies. Maybe they will face difficulties at their jobs,or maybe they will even lose their jobs. How can this be justifiable?
A. This is true. The institutions of corporate imperialism, as has always been the case in imperial systems, employ some people from the colonized country, and when the occupation of a country is driven out, those people have to look new employment.
This is not a tragic difficulty, and it is certainly not equivalent to the millions of people who suffer unemployment, poverty, disease, illiteracy, and imprisonment under the domination of the imperial system. For instance, with the stroke of the neoliberal pen, 1 million small farmers lost their land overnight. Where are their rights?
It is the wrong question, “what will happen to the employees of multinationals do if the multinationals are not here?” Rather you should ask what will happen to the farmers, the shop owners, the doctors and nurses and teachers, to the workers in local industries, what will happen to the millions of people who rely on subsidies and support, if the multinationals are allowed to control policy?
The slaves who work in the master’s house are largely in favor of slavery, and they cannot understand the rebellion of the slaves who work in the field.
Having said that, we need to reiterate that this strategy does not aim to drive multinationals out of the country, the strategy will cause disruption, and loss of profits, but it also offers them a remedy to this disruption. They must support our demands, and they must accept regulation of their activities.