The constant bombardment of dramatic news, puts our mind into the fallacy of false choices, we have to either choose the Islamomaniacs or the Islamists and terrorist. The fact of the matter is that these are not our only choices, we have countless other options, between these two extremes.
Source: The Independent
By Robert Fisk, the Independent’s multiple award-winning Middle East correspondent, based in Beirut
It didn’t create these Islamists – but it helped lay the foundation for their cults of death
It’s “us” and “them” again. It started just after news of the three Islamist attacks broke. David Cameron initially talked about the French and Tunisian killings. He left out the Kuwait mosque massacre – only picking up on it later.
Odd, that. Weren’t those Kuwaitis – of Shia Muslim faith, to be true, all 27 of them – victims of the same Islamist cult that is murdering our folk? And then there are the Sunni Saudis whose Salafist-Wahhabi credo energises the murderers, but whom we – and Mr Cameron – mysteriously forgot to mention?
Wasn’t Saudi Arabia the place where they chopped off the head of a screaming lady in the middle of a street the other day – legally, because she’d been condemned by one of the kingdom’s grotesque courts? And didn’t Mr Cameron order our national flag to be flown at half mast in honour of the wretched old king of the Wahhabi nation which has given us most of the 9/11 killers and helped to prop up the Taliban – and some of whose citizens support the Islamic “caliphate” which now kills our citizens?
One slaughter doesn’t justify another. The bloodbath in Gaza last year was not responsible for slaughter on the beaches of Tunisia – although Mr Cameron did support Israel’s “right to have defended itself” against the “indiscriminate” attacks of Hamas when he was seeking British-Jewish votes in April. Again, no justification for the Sousse killer. Besides, what kind of Islamist “warrior” can claim to be “fighting” such enemies: tourists on a Tunisian beach, a French employer and Kuwaiti worshippers who can’t shoot back?
But before we beat the drum, who this weekend remembered the “terrorist” slaughter of 8,000 innocent men and boys almost exactly 20 years ago? Yes, it happened in Europe. A place called Srebrenica. But they were Muslims. And no one blamed the Orthodox church to which the murderers belonged – any more than we blamed Catholics for the mass killing by Christian Catholic militiamen (allies of Israel) of 1,700 Palestinian civilians in Beirut in 1982. Yet those killers had pictures of the Virgin Mary on their rifle butts as surely as the killer of Sousse was acknowledged by Islamists whose slogan is Koranic.
