We have become accustomed to seeing NATO soldiers being killed in the many illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The western media outlets call these soldiers heroes and victims despite the fact that they were killed on foreign soil and were the cause of thousands of civilian fatalities in Muslim countries. We are also accustomed to hearing that the Israeli army kills “militants”(often children) in Palestine. We all know that the West strongly supports Israeli fascist policies, such as the stealing of Palestinian land and the illegal settlements, and is therefore guilty of participating in the Palestinian Holocaust.
It seems things have not changed for centuries. The Christian armies who invaded the holy land, Syria and sometimes even other Christian lands such as the south of France (the extermination of the Cathars) are the precursors of the modern wars in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.
It is only very ignorant people who say that the Muslims are terrorists. At any time in history the amount of people killed by suicide bombers or by Islamic terrorism pales into insignificance next to the thousands of Muslims killed directly by NATO or Israeli or American forces, or by the Pope’s army of Christian bandits in the middle ages. And then one must consider the millions killed as a direct result of Western sanctions on Iraq and other countries.
So next time you hear about some hero or other killed in Afghanistan or Iraq, remember the pictures of the Iraqi prison camps where civilians were tortured and you will understand why those NATO soldiers were liquidated.
Trying to portray these illegal, fascist wars on civilians as wars against terrorism, should be insulting to any intelligent person. If the West is against terrorism it should stop its terrorist activities and it should impose sanctions on Israel, which is the longest standing fascist state in the world. Any excuses and arguments about the benefits of these wars which are simply illegal under international law should remind one of the reasons Hitler gave for invading Poland and France. Hitler’s Germany in the 30s behaved exactly in the same way NATO and American forces behave today.
Of course it is too much to expect the Christian citizens of the “democratic and freedom loving” western world to overcome their bigotry and say plainly and clearly that we are the greatest cause of terror in the world.
At least we should admit that suicide bombers are much more heroic than soldiers (armed with equipment far superior to the Taliban’s weapons) who sit in their armoured vehicles until some “primitive” native in a turban fulfils his duty of blowing them up.
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