9, January 2015 Massacre
in Paris
The French satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, has a long reputation of offending people of all religions which has
hardly stirred much outrage - except amongst Muslims. While no religious groups
are immune to violence, there is clearly a greater propensity of violent
outrage from Islamist extremists. To murder innocent people, shouting “God is Great’
is surely an affront to Islam and the Creator whom they claim to worship.
However, before we drench ourselves in a false
sense of virtue we need to view past events to better understand how we, in the
Western world, might have stirred the collective outrage in Muslim countries.
Islamic terrorists who have been wreaking so much
havoc for the last quarter century were bred much the same way as killer bees.
A few examples: In 1953 the CIA orchestrated a coup in Iran and overthrew the
democratic elected government of Mosaddeq. We then trained, armed and organized
young militant Muslims to help repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. When
we left them twisting in the wind they turned against us. We then aided and
abetted Israel in cleansing Palestinians from their ancestral land. Following 9/11
the Bush/Cheney cabal ordered prisoners to be tortured and falsely confess that
Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11 attack. The shock and awe of Iraq resulted in
hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths. We then followed Bin Laden to the caves
of Afghanistan unleashing US firepower which fueled intense anger and
resentment in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.
