Re: Expressions of an angry Muslim
If Palestinian terrorists would stop attacking Israelis there would be peace.
If radical Islamists would stop attacking in Iraq and Syria then there would be peace.
The violence starts when Islamists attack because others don't believe as they do.
I wouldn't say that I agree with everything the fellow says (the claim of 500 children killed by Israel in a single summer sounds pretty dubious!). On the other hand, this kind of "But they started it!" response seems rather lazy and childish, and more importantly it's precisely what groups like ISIS themselves say.
I mean let's face facts here: One of the biggest catalysts for the rise of ISIS came from the aftermath of events in 2003, the unprovoked, illegal invasion by the US and allies of a sovereign nation on the opposite side of the world! Even if we pretend (stretching credulity to the limit) that Bush, Blair and Howard really believed in their hearts that Iraq had WMDs, it wouldn't change the fact that they ignored international protocol and invaded against the wishes of the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly and even of most of Iraq's neighbours.
So who started the violence? Throughout the 12 years before that, economic sanctions maintained by US and UK veto resulted in excess deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, half of them children, due largely to lack of medical supplies and poorer water quality. Who are the good guys here? Before that, there was an invasion because - get this - Iraq made an unprovoked illegal attack on another sovereign nation! But before that, Saddam Hussein was considered one of the West's important allies in the region... all while he was invading Iran and using WMDs on his own population.
How far back do you go with the "They started it" game?
Of the 15 or so violent conflicts in various areas in the world today, 14 of them involve Muslims attacking their neighbors to impose Muslim beliefs and rule, in some cases through genocide.
Some evidence of that would be nice. Regardless, I'd bet you a shiny dollar that US weapons are used in 100% of those conflicts, since it is the #1 arms dealer in the world. As the video suggested, the private manufacturers of those arms do inevitably
bribe 'donate' to government officials, and they certainly are not throwing money away out of the goodness of their hearts. Do you really not see any kind of problem here?
Other governments are similarly culpable, of course: The five permanent UN Security Council members - the countries which have arrogated to themselves the role of arbitrating world peace - all rank within the top seven arms dealing nations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World.27s_largest_arms_exporters
If you know or believe that someone is a violent killer, would you sell them an automatic rifle with a clear conscience? Surely on this point at least you
must agree that the video raises an important issue? The worse you think that Muslims are, so much the worse America and other countries are for providing a ready supply of cheap, quality weapons!