The foreign policy of the US and its Western allies is premised in large part upon prejudices against people of different race, ethnicity, or religion.
Western regimes have actively contributed to the complete destruction of Muslim states such as Iraq, Libya, Syria. We are gladly bombing their countries, but are shocked when they bomb us. Human rights apply to the Aryan and Caucasian race, while abuses against other races are of no consequence. This is how the Western, liberal democracy works. Just look at Libya.
One of the major problems with the current Western narrative is the racial mindset that chronically paints Westerners of Aryan or Caucasian decent as the inherently good and Muslim peoples, in particular, as the bandits of the world. The ongoing, well synchronized demonization of certain ethnic groups hides a deeply racist thinking with strong undertones of social-Darwinism, which is typical of traditional European thinking. Some ethnic groups are considered the bottom of the barrel of human development while we, the West, rank ourselves at the top as the enlightened society. We assume our manner of governance should reign throughout the world simply because we are the best in everything.
Arab countries are portrayed as poor and uncivilized, despite the fact that before the American invasions of country after country in the Middle East, oil rich Muslim countries were experiencing great economic development. Iraq in the 1980’s and Syria before the current disastrous war are good examples. The same is true for Libya prior to the brutal NATO backed military coup—it was Africa’s richest and most developed country according UN statistics. Most people in Western countries do not know this; hardly anyone in mainstream media writes about it. We rarely speak about the wealth of other cultures, but only about our own.
Current Hollywood films illustrate to the extreme the current problem of ethnic awareness in the West between those we like and those ethnicities we dislike. The American film industry has become a biased mouthpiece of USA’s racially aware power elite; the same tendency is a massive problem within mainstream media. Just about all films hit the screen with a surprising degree of propaganda with undertones of racist content and religious odium which obviously intend to vilify certain ethnic groups, Muslims in particular. The terrifyingly racist TV series Homeland is a good example of this kind of propaganda, with its constant derogatory words about nations we are not supposed to like, such as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Syria, and Libya.
Note how viciously deliberate we use the negative term “regime” each time a nation is referred to when it is not Western enough, while we use the term “democratically elected government” to describe countries that mimic our ideology. Cultural intolerance and lack of respect for international law and nations’ sovereignty pervades the media vocabulary. The obvious aim is to influence the general Western population by coordinated stigmatization techniques. They are led to believe that people from Islamic nations are the terrible Muslims whom we should fear. This leads ordinary people to hate groups based on, in this case, racist Hollywood movies which seem to have been created in order to legitimize the US’s chronic need for wars in the Middle East.
The glorification of the white, Caucasian race in Hollywood movies, ends up whitewashing the West and its motives for war elsewhere in the world, while the truth is that we are the ones who are actively destroying Muslim states and causing Stalingrad situations in country after country. We are not even bothered when “we” bomb their countries, yet shocked when “they” bomb us.
The list of “regimes” and ethnic groups we don’t like is beginning to get frightfully long and includes many of the world’s nations: China, Brazil, Russia, Argentina, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria. African countries are almost always deemed corrupt states with authoritarian presidents whom we hope to drag to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague as soon as possible. The hope is to have yet another black president sentenced for this or the other. No wonder presidents such as Yoweri Museveni in Uganda more or less calls the ICC a racist institution, deeming them “a bunch of useless people”. Museveni is completely right in his observations. The ICC chronically picks out black people for its interrogations; it is a complete and utter disgrace.
Never ever does the ICC bother to question the horrifying atrocities done by white Western leaders such as the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, when he was Prime Minister in Norway and helped launch the legally unjustified assault on Libya in 2011. This is how a Western, liberal democracy works. In ancient Greece, reprisals against incompetent leaders were used effectively and many sent into exile, never to return home, if they did not lead the city state well. In Western liberal democracy, reprisals against politicians are virtually non-existent, regardless of the injustice done or crimes committed against humanity. Human rights apply to the Aryan and Caucasian race, while abuses against other races are of no consequence.
Regarding corruption, which definitively is a problem in Africa, the exact same is true for many Western nations. Several hundred millions of dollars were given by Norway to the Clinton Foundation. Norway and Saudi Arabia topped the list of foreign nations’ support in 2015; still we only speak of Africans as the corrupt. Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg has even uttered the unbelievable, that Norway does not regret any of its actions in 2011 that led to the destruction of Libya. To many of us, it is unbearable and most regrettable that a Prime Minister can utter something as stupid as this. Years after the 2011 Libya war, after years of civil strife and millions sent in exile to Egypt, Tunis, after seeing all of this, a Prime Minister like Solberg still maintains that she would have done exactly the same today as was done in 2011. No wonder there is Western decline, when people like this lead us, and function as convenient idiots to the ruthless American military complex.
We actually only send Serbians and Africans to the Hague. Western leaders of Caucasian descent are routinely exempt from answering for their crimes against humanity. A weeping “I’m sorry” on TV, such as the UK’s settlement with NATO atrocities in Libya where thousands of civilians lost their lives and the country was robbed and smashed to pieces is more than enough. Imagine the impact on civilian life. It is an unbearable injustice. Still, if President Obama utters the word “sorry”, all is well. No one of his friends intends to repay to Libya the billions and billions they owe Libyans due to the destruction NATO and the US inflicted upon that country.
It is probably the greatest robbery in history when the Libyan Treasury was emptied in 2011. Business Insider and many others have wondered where the 144 tons of gold from Libya’s vaults have gone. Where are the hundreds of billions of dollars in cash? What about the shares in various companies that were distributed internationally worth 150 billion dollars that came from Libya’s oil fund? Who took that money and assets?
As Europeans need to stop being the useful idiots of the American military complex and cynical elites in the United States. This gross racism and injustice against other nations must be stopped. Another example: the close cooperation between Saudi jihadists and the United States is by now sufficiently well documented. Leading Republicans such as John McCain have confirmed long ago that the United States, Qatar and Saudi Arabia financed the uprising against Assad, according to Wall Street Journal. He told the world about it himself, proud of being the one who pushed for this complete breach of international law.
The case is very ugly. The 2011 leader of Al Qaeda in Libya, Abdelhakim Belhadj, was hailed by John McCain and other Americans as a collaborator and champion of freedom following NATO’s military coup. In January of 2015, the same Belhadj took charge of ISIS in Libya, the same man who was the United States’ ally in 2011. ISIS currently runs the human trafficking in the region, from which millions of people are making their way to Europe, due to the total breakdown of the Gaddafi government.
WikiLeaks further revealed that Hillary Clinton was fully aware that two best allies of the United States, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, were funding ISIS at a governmental level. What are America’s underlying motives for promoting cooperating with Al Qaida to overthrow Gaddafi and later supporting ISIS leaders in Libya? Are groups like ISIS religious Muslim at all? Or only paid mercenaries? The point being: why such fierce dislike of Muslims in mainstream media and Hollywood narratives when the jihadists in question are the US and NATO allies in the Middle East?
We read about Syrian Christians who quote the Bible when they are stopped by ISIS soldiers in Syria when told to quote from the Quran. Whereupon the jihadists simply nod and let them go. These men do not even know their Quran. We hear reports from Egypt, Libya and Syria telling how ISIS soldiers speak poor Arabic and are foreigners. The same is stated in the documentary “ISIS versus Christ”, where Egyptian imams were interviewed in the wake of the beheading by ISIS of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya.
ISIS obviously have extremely good friends in the West. The terror group was given an impressively coordinated ringside seat in almost every single Western mainstream media outlet the very second they entered the world stage, with American weaponry of every kind. Back to my main point: who is profiting from the demonization of Islam and the destruction of oil-rich Muslim states? This should be of interest to Europeans, especially when one considers the important role ISIS is playing in the current export of refugees—most of whom arrive with fake Syrian passports and are illegally in Europe, and emigrate for economic reasons from the faltering states in Africa.
Who is profiting from the destabilization of Europe? Somebody should be smart and get a hold of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and reinstate him as the unifying leader of Libya, and this human trafficking which is plaguing Europe would end and order and justice be reinstated. As we all recall, Muammar Gaddafi had an agreement with Italy to control from the Libyan side the illegal influx of immigrants to Europe. This agreement broke down when NATO attacked the nation.
The endless media reports that portray other peoples as “bandits and terrorists” from “cruel regimes and tyrannical heads of state” is something many of us have grown tired of. The infantile role of ideological journalists then becomes to explain to us who the United States considers good or who we are to believe is the bad in the world.
Public uprisings like UK Brexit and the people’s choice of Donald Trump—who openly voices to stop the conflicts with Russia and US engagement in wars in the Middle East—comes as refreshing movements against the outdated Western, social Darwinist power elites who constantly push for more war. The massive danger of one-sided propaganda in both Hollywood and the media being its ability to legitimize war against those “we define as bad”, which benefits not the Western people, but only the economic interests of the current power elites. Oliver Stone’s excellent film about Edward Snowden thus becomes a refreshing breath of clean air. Finally, a Hollywood movie that actually points an accusing finger at powerful elites in the United States. They definitely deserve it.
Wow, it is shocking the amount this writer ignores or glosses over. I mean in the second paragraph she says: “We assume our manner of governance should reign throughout the world simply because we are the best in everything”. Really consider what that statement implies, that we shouldnt just assume fascists, despots and theocrats are wrong just because we are prosperous? That the liberties and rights we demonstratively only have obtained thanks to our form of government are irrelevant to the argument, as, apparently we’ve been assuming liberal capitalist democracies are only good because were prosperous.
You would think after reading this article that western nations just attack foreign nations unprovoked without any kind of attempt at justification, i mean not a single argument is made against any of the specific justifications for wars or bombings. I agree with some of the positions taken in this article but it is so sickeningly anti-western that it almost reads like a cold war era propoganda piece out of Soviet Russia.
James, you just demonstrated the very attitude of superiority the author was referring to, thus bolstering her point. Not surprising, given how you express this delusional belief that Western nations only ever attack foreign nations with justification. We could hold up Iraq as a supreme example.
History says otherwise. The problem with people like you is that you are convinced you are the only ones that have received an education. I’m waiting for the incoming attacks on my intelligence, the questions pertaining to my sanity, etc.
Millions of white Christians? Now thats an outrageous statement, Since you’re so educated why dont you provide proof.
What an idiot. You have heard of the Moorish invasions haven’t you? This isn’t some hidden secret. Go look up notable historians like Thomas Sowell and see his interesting comments about the slave trade. Are you aware White people were still sold in Africa/ME 60 years after slavery was ended in America?
Are you familiar with the Barbary wars? ITS WHY WE HAVE A NAVY.
Fool.
Get a degree.
No one is denying the muslim/arab slave trade but millions of slaves really? I’m asking for a historical source for such number. You cant make up numbers you have to support it. Slavery outdated Christianity and islam so I dont believe its a religious problem.
/facepalm. You can’t be this ignorant can you? Even after the Crusades were mounted to stop it, white Europeans were still picked off along the coasts by marauding Muslim slave traders. Have you ever heard of the sack of Baltimore in 1631?
There were a million Christian slaves that had been carried off to the Middle East by the time of the Crusades. Huge chunks of Spain, and Europe had been taken over by Muslims.
You liberal millennials cannot possibly be this ignorant of history can you?
Its time you fools stopped acting so smug and went back to your books.
The crusades were mounted to help the byzantine empire from collapsing because they were losing to the Muslim expansion. Now are you going to provide actual historical proof of the millions of white slaves that supposedly got carried off? Source please
Did you miss the reference to Thomas Sowell. According to him, the African/Muslim slave trade was larger substantially larger and lasted much longer than the Atlantic slave trade ever did. It spanned a thousand years. Do you even remotely understand the volume of people it traffficked?
He goes into detail about white slaves fetching higher prices in the auctions in the Middle East.
If that isn’t clear enough for you, Ohio Professor Robert Davis suggests the number is actually higher… about 1.25 to 2 million white Europeans enslaved.
Aww. I’m sorry. Is your narrative broken? Were you not expecting to have Stanford and Ohio state Professors saying these things? WAAAH WAAAH.
OMG. One is even BLACK. ./
Get over yourselves.
All I asked for is a historical source for your claim but you fail to provide that. I checked out Thomas sowell and all I could find is that he claimed that the arab slave trade was much less publicized. Bring me your sources, links, books, websites. Do it I dont know how biased you are therefore I cannot take your words for facts.
“McDaniel, Antonio (1995), Swing low, sweet chariot: the mortality cost of colonizing Liberia in the nineteenth century, University of Chicago Press, p. 11, ISBN 0-226-55724-3
Claims that the majority of the ME slave trade was European from the 7-15th century. I provided numbers by Sowell that places this some fifteen times greater than the American slave trade, and mostly European.
Does that make sense for you>?
My degrees were in math, can you add and subtract even?
So that’s three sources. I’m guessing you went to a fourth tier state school to be this dense.
I was unable to find the book online. Why dont you cite the exact quotation from the book so I can find it ?
Look up the word ‘recalcitrant’ while you’re at it.
Typical millennial. Your fingers are too fat to google yourself aren’t you? Thomas Sowell has videos all over youtube if reading is too hard for you.
youtube is not a credible source neither is just googling. I require actual sources and citations. Your petty insults do not affect me but it seems like the only thing you can do
A well respected professor giving a lecture on youtube is a valid source. FAIL.
Certain things are superior about “our manner of governance”, do you really want to argue that secularism is equivalent to theocracy? or that its silly to “assume” dictatorship is inferior to democracy? I’m not disputing whether the belief in the superiority of our manner of governance exists, just that it is not based on an assumption based on our prosperity as the article argues. Our superiority is based on the clear protection of our freedoms and rights our form of government affords us that is far less secure in other forms of government like dictatorships.
Western nations did have a plethora of justifications for Iraq, let me refresh your memory:
Iraq had invaded and attempted to annex a foreign state against the will of that states people
Iraq had used illegall weapons both on foreign nations and on there own people, producing vx, mustard gas and sarin
Iraq had committed genocide against the Kurdish people
Iraq was a state sponsor of terrorism
By the way the point isnt that the justification was sufficient, just that it existed.
James, nobody is arguing that secularism is equivalent to theocracy or that it’s silly to consider dictatorship as inferior to democracy.
The war against Iraq was an act of aggression, defined at Nuremberg as “the supreme international crime, differing from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Hence it was by definition not justified, but the fact you continue to posit otherwise again illustrates the author’s point about the Western attitude of superiority.
Beta.
+Jeremy R. Hammond
The Irony here is that Saddam had committed two of these acts of agression both against kurwait and Iran (three if you count the continual occupation of Kurdistan). I mean its funny because I remember arguing with war hawks at the time who bascically made the exact same argument about going in to iraq as you are making of why Iraq was a crime.
You say nobody is arguing that secularism is equivalent to theocracy or dictatorship is equivalent to democracy and yet the article tells us that our manner of governance is no better than anywhere else in the world and we shouldnt assume it is just because of our prosperity. How else can you take that? If our manner of governance is no better whos is/was? Iraqs? China? Russia? Most of the non-western world either has the same manner of governance or is theocratic/dictatorial so its hard to see the articles statements as anything other than a peverse moral relativism.
I don’t know what point you are trying to make with respect to this “irony” you say you see. There is nothing paradoxical about the fact that the US and Iraq under Saddam Hussein both have committed the crime of aggression, and I don’t see anything humorous about these two facts.
You are making no sense, here, either. Even if the author had written that, it wouldn’t follow that she is therefore arguing that secularism is equivalent to theocracy or that dictatorship is equivalent to democracy. Moreover, that’s not what she wrote.
I have to admit I do appreciate someone calling out the former liberal elitist for all the catastrophes they created that marked the last decade rather than simply stating they were saints compared to Trump.
Though I am afraid she was far to simplistic in her covering of western operations in the middle east. The region was to destabilised and ISIS and other Islamist groups could not have been allowed to gain ground. This article simple does not attempt to understand the need for intervention, had the west not intervened this would have probably been an article condemning the selfish westerners for not helping those in need. The issues are far to complex to condense down to “Racist Westerners are Evil” or any of that naive dribble.
Oh and another thing yes we should be shocked at terrorism, for one the west engaging active combatants with unfortunate civilian fire (who are often used as human shields by militants by the way) and committing terrorist bombings that serve no strategic purpose rather than to kill people and rile everyone up in revenge attacks are two completely separate things. So if you don’t know the difference I don’t think you should be commenting on it.
Applauding police state fascism that engages in terrorism against/inside civilians of 7 nations and then some… No shock!
Blowback, shock!!!
Go jump!
No one is praising fascism police state in foreign countries, except this writer who basically says westerners have no moral standing to call out any injustice of any kind.
Perhaps you should actually read the article. Or if you have you don’t seem to understand it.
Stick to your SJW echo chamber buddy.
“The region was to destabilised and ISIS and other Islamist groups could not have been allowed to gain ground. This article simple does not attempt to understand the need for intervention,…”
Not only zero reason or legal right for “intervention,” but on the side of hordes of the most illiberal, antidemocratic, religious fundamentalist firebrands aiming to establish a theocratic state in place of modernist and non-sectarian Syria… Are you serious?
Implausible Deniability – West’s ISIS Terror Hordes in Iraq – http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2014/08/implausible-deniability-wests-isis.html#more
Bullshit! What is the role of AustralIa and India in the Middle East? These countries suffer severe islamisation, too!
What a joke. This article is so far from reality. The author is trying to paint Muslim nations in the same light of Native Americans, peaceful people just trying to live but can’t because of Western culture. Unfortunately for her, history paints a different picture. Muslim nations are just as guilty as the Western world for everything she is claiming.
What a complete pile of rubbish, we are not demonising them, they are doing that themselves, they act like savages their religion is supremacist, they invade our countries pretending to be refugees, they commit terrorist acts every day somewhere in the world (how often does any other religious group do that compared to them) they are trying to destroy our way of life by subversion of it, by driving us out of our own towns and cities, by breeding at rates that if it wasn’t for us being stupid enough to give them hand outs they couldn’t afford to support, they are sexists, religiously intolerant, homophobic, murderous, they think that it is ok to rape non-muslims, cut off hands, heads, feet, stone people, whip people, they think that if you’re not a muslim you should have to pay them protection money, they like child marriage, and have no problem with pedophilia.
They are sick perverts.
“They act like savages” So you judged 1 billion people because of the acts of few terrorists.
Speaking of terrorists, Who created them? The Taliban was created by the USA to combat the USSR in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda is an offshoot of the Taliban and they bombed the USA when the USA did not withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia.
You giving them hand outs? Im pretty sure all the gulf states have more than enough money to stand on their own.
ISIS was the offshoot of Iraqi rebels when the USA invaded Iraq wrongfully with the lie of weapons of mass destruction so they could replace Saddam because unlike other puppet Arab dictators he replaced the dollar with Iraqi currency.
Its easy to blame Islam and Muslims and deny that you were the ones who destabilized the region by funding terrorists and invasions.
Still insist Islam is the issue? Bring proof
Trillions of dollars have been spent on war upon Arab Nations in last 2 decades.EU and USA were very much accepted visa vis USSR by Muslims globally.The 2 Bushes with Blair created false stories and false threats from Iraq.They created Islamic Mujahedeen in Afghanistan in 1979,gave them US arms and ammunition with all out support along with Ziaul Haq an Islamic enthusist,Pakistans President.It resulted in breakup of USSR and defeat of Russia at the hands of Afghanis,It destroyed Pakistan’s milleau interior due to influx of 5 million Afghan refugees with arms and drugs.US used the Afghan Mujahedeen,after their role was over they were disposed off like use and throw condoms.Talebans were off shoots of the 10 years Afghanistans occupation of USSR.US helped Iraq at war with Iran.Then Bush senior stage managed desert storm,destroyed Iraq.His son created Alqaida,Osama bin Laden & associates,allegedly staged twin tower tragedy,attack on already a beleagured nation of Afghanistan and later Iraq.Libya and Syria followed in total destruction.ISIS created by Obama’s administration.The article describes facts.
Instead of destroying several Nations,killing several million Muslims directly or in collateral damages,destroying the entire infrastuctures of so many Nations,If USA and West had helped the poor Nations of Africa,Arabs,and Muslim Nations in developing economy health and education,everyone in Muslim world would hve loved USA and West.There wouldnt have been any terrorism.They made world UNSAFE for their people and for everyone else.
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