The latest Muslim rationalisations for the 1400 year-old war between Islam and all that is non-Islamic involve the so-called occupations" of Muslim countries; as well as the military actions (including drone attacks) carried out by Western states in Muslim countries.Take Asghar Bukhari (a British Pakistani) of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK). He has justified just about every act of Islamic violence and terrorism (including the slaughter of Lee Rigby) in terms of the occupations" of what he calls Muslim lands". More precisely Bukhari has said that Muslims who fight the occupation of their lands are Mujahadeen and are blessed by Allah".
Most of the time that Muslims (as well as Western Leftists) say this kind of thing they have in mind Iraq Afghanistan and Israel. Thats strange really because most British soldiers withdrew from Iraq in 2009 (the few remaining left in 2011) and the Americans did the same in 2011. And since then there has been a Shiite-dominated government in Iraq.
In terms of Iraq the West is (retrospectively) held accountable for all thats still happening in that country some three years after the last Western (American) troops pulled out. That blame-game is no surprise: Muslims are still talking about the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and many Leftists still point their pious and reprimanding fingers at Europe and America for the slave trades of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Added to all that many (positive/inverted) racists of the Left deem Iraqi Muslims (as they do all Muslims) to be children: i.e. beings who are free of free will and who are effectively without conscience. Consequently all that Islamic/Muslim violence in Iraq (as well as elsewhere in the Muslim world) simply must be someone elses fault ours!
Both American and British troops are still of course in Afghanistan. Yet even in this case Barack Obama has planned to withdraw all American troop from Afghanistan by 2016.
There are roughly 34000 US troops still left in Afghanistan. Despite that there are vast swathes of the country in which there are no Western soldiers at all. Of course 34000 soldiers can still do much damage. Nonetheless whats happening in Afghanistan can hardly be called a Western occupation".
All that simply wont matter because many Muslims will simply refocus on other issues: say Israel or possibly the infidel occupation" of both India and southern Spain (or Andalusia as Muslims call it).
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In terms of civilian causalities Afghanistan has been a remarkably unbloody war.
In the period 2001 to 2012 between 18000 and 20000 villains were killed in the conflict. That is not the number of civilians killed by Western troops: simply the number killed. In other words most of those civilians would have been killed by fellow Muslims (mainly but not exclusively by the Taliban). Sure as the saying goes every death is a tragedy"; yet compared to other conflicts or wars that death-toll is fairly low.
Compare Afghanistan to the Sudanese Islamic campaigns (roughly between 1991 and 2005) against Sudanese Christians and animists . As a result of these campaigns over one-and-a-half million people were killed; over two million people died due to the resultant starvation (caused by the conflict); and over four million people were displaced. In addition Sudanese Muslims captured over 200000 Southern Sudanese and Nuba slaves. (All done it must be said in full concordance with both the Koran and Islam generally.)
Lets also compare Afghanistan to Asghar Bukharis very own Pakistan (its direct neighbour) in roughly the same period.
There are no occupying" American troops in Pakistan; though there were some 370 drone attacks between 2005 and 2013 in parts of the country.
Now between September 2001 and May 2011 35000 Pakistanis were killed due to Islamic terrorism alone. Thats 15000 more than the 20000 (max) civilian deaths (most of whom were killed by fellow Muslims) in Afghanistan; though in a shorter period.
Drone Attacks: Pakistan Yemen & Somalia
Asghar Bukhari or another writer for MPAC states that drone attacks kill more women children and civilians than anyone else". Now that is either an outright lie or Bukhari is simply drunk on his own rhetorical narrative" (a word he often uses) of Muslim victimhood.
From 2005 to 2013 between 258 and 307 civilians were killed as a result of drone attacks in Pakistan. Those same drone attacks on the other hand manage to kill between 1623 and 2787 Islamic militants. (Details found here.)
The other two states which have been the recipients of drone attacks are Yemen and Somalia.
Between 2002 and 2014 there were 96 drone attacks in Yemen. These attacks resulted in 105 civilian deaths compared to the 472 Islamic militants who were also killed. In the same period al-Qaeda alone (discarding other Islamic groups) killed the same number (105) of Yemeni civilians.
As for Somalia from 2007 to 2014 there were between 5 and 8 drone attacks in that country in which between 0 and 1 civilians died. The total deaths in this period were between 10 and 24.
In comparison more Muslims die each month in Pakistan at the hands of Islamic terrorists or militants" (or indeed freedom fighters") than have died in the entire 2002-1014 period of US drone attacks in Yemen. When it comes to drone attacks in Pakistan itself it can be said that more Pakistanis have died every few months as a result of Islamic terrorism than in the entire period of of drone attacks (2004-2014) on that country.
Asghar Bukharis Narrative of Muslim Victimhood
Asghar Bukharis (or MPACs) position (as shown on its website) is that all this Muslim violence has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Islam:
The well worn narrative is that media commentators the self described experts on terrorism and Islam alike will find the roots of violence in Islam and the Quran itself. …. there isnt a single one of us who hasnt groaned when we see Islamic texts being purposefully twisted and misrepresented to arrive at the above conclusions."
After that we can cite a laughable quasi-Marxist analysis of all Muslim violence (as found on its Facebook page); all of which faithfully concurs with what Trotskyist or Trotskyist-run groups say about the same issues:
Muslims are the most oppressed people on earth we have been denied our freedom we have been denied our equality we have been denied any justice we have even been denied the right to tell the world our own story."
As you can imagine MPACUK cant exactly praise the savage murder of Lee Rigby; as well as all the other atrocities committed by Muslims in the name of Islam. Nonetheless it can and often does - rationalise justify excuse and explicate them. And this is what it does here:
.... the killing of Lee Rigby was an extreme reaction to an extreme situation. These people did what they did because they wanted to get a message across a message that tells the world that they are sick of being oppressed colonised demonised killed and murdered simply for being Muslim."
Now how does all that rhetoric tie in with Muslim sexual-grooming gangs in the UK female genital mutilation (FGM) and more relevantly Muslim-on-Muslim violence? How is all that a result of Muslims being oppressed colonised demonisedkilled"? Do the Thai Buddhists of southern Thailand - the victims of random jihadist violence - fit into this quasi-Marxist package of Islam? What about the animists and Christians of Sudan in the period 1991 to 2005? Or what about the hundreds possibly thousands of working-class girls who were the victims of the Muslim sexual-grooming gangs of England? What has all that to do with Muslim oppression"?
Whats happening here is painfully obvious.
Muslims cannot - almost by definition - blame Islam. As Muslims they must completely deny (at least to non-Muslims)that Islam has any influence on all this violence and sexual abuse . Muslims must do this quite simply because they are Muslims. Yes they do indeed tart up their Muslim tribalism with Marxist quasi-Marxist and even interfaith gobbledegook. Nonetheless it all still remains thoroughly tribal and Islamic in nature and origin.
Asghar Bukhari himself tarts up his own Muslim tribalism with the help of the language of the Left. He does so because he knows full well that talk of oppression" demonisation" and colonization" will sound extremely appealing (as well as politically correct) to his Leftist enablers. So what Bukhari and MPACUK are doing is gilding (e.g. with Leftist jargon) the ancient Muslim habit of blaming others for their own violence intolerance and supremacism.
If youve ever seen MPACUKs Asghar Bukhari being interviewed on TV you will have quickly noted his barely-controlled aggression and blinding hate. All that aggression and hate - inspired by the reasoning and rhetoric of eternal Muslim victimhood - is probably precisely the same incendiary material which fuels most Islamic terrorists.
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Conclusion
What we have here is a kind of geopolitical Manichaeism in which Muslims say that Western non-Muslims are to blame for literally everything. However because the Left aligns itself with Muslims (as well as vice versa) on these issues its very easy and tempting for Muslims to slyly move from cursing Western kuffar generally to cursing Western capitalist states. This is done in order to help Muslims forge strategic alliances with the Leftists they so desperately need. Likewise Leftist will also tap into the revolutionary potential of Muslims" and use that potential" for their own atheistic and non-Islamic ends.
Whats more when Muslims claim that theyve been oppressed" colonised" and demonised" they really are taking the piss. Historically Muslims have been the worst oppressorscolonizers and demonizers on the planet. Indeed the Islamic killing machine has been the worst killing machine the world has ever known: with a grand score of over 250 million (dead) victims.