But Muslims killing Muslims is not any less evident on the global scene. Saudi Arabia and its sidekick, the United Arab Emirates, have led a coalition of Muslim states to slaughter tens of thousands of Yemenis and drive millions more to starvation. Yes, the US and Europe are chiefly responsible for arming these Arab countries, but it is the Arabs who are pulling the triggers and dropping the bombs.
Again Dabashi is blaming the Infidels — “the US and Europe” — for the proxy war in Yemen between two Muslim states, Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shi’a Iran. We have supplied weapons to the Saudis, but have done nothing to encourage them to continue the conflict, have repeatedly urged them not to attack civilian targets, and right now are in the process of ending all military support for the Saudis in Yemen because of the Khashoggi murder. Neither the US nor Europe are responsible for the internecine warfare between Muslims, nor for the willingness with which both sides attack civilian targets. It is those “Arabs who are pulling the triggers and dropping the bombs” who are solely responsible.
In Syria, it is first and foremost Bashar al-Assad (and his Russian and Iranian backers) who are responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Syrians and driving the rest to refugee camps in and out of their devastated homeland
Yes, the US, Israel and multiple Arab states are equally guilty of the mayhem in Syria, but the net result is the massacre of more Muslims in Syria. Turkey’s war with the Kurds amounts to even more Muslims murdering Muslims. In Egypt and Iran too, the ruling regimes have had no qualms maiming and murdering their own citizens in prisons or in the streets.
Are the US, Israel, and multiple Arab states “equally guilty” — with the Syrians and their Russian and Iranian backers — of the mayhem in Syria? How is the US guilty? It has only a few thousand troops in Syria, and their target has always been ISIS. Does Hamid Dabashi think it would be better for all concerned if the US did not conduct its war on ISIS? Shouldn’t he approve of what the Americans have been doing? They have also helped, in a smaller way, the secular opposition to Assad. Isn’t this what Dabashi would want us to do? Or would he prefer that such forces be crushed by Bashar Assad and his Iranian and Russian friends? As for Israel being “equally guilty of the mayhem” in Syria, Israel has tried to stay well out of the conflict. It has only become involved tangentially, when it detects Iranian attempts to send advanced weaponry to Hezbollah in Lebanon, or tries to set up Iranian bases in Syria. Only then, only for the limited purposes of halting those weapons deliveries and preventing those Iranian bases from being built, does Israel bomb those weapons convoys and those incipient bases. It does not take sides in the Syrian civil war. On the ground, it does do one important thing: it offers medical care, for free, to wounded Syrians, both soldiers and civilians, whatever side they are on. Does Hamid Dabashi disapprove of this samaritan undertaking? And how does Israel’s selfless care for wounded Syrians fit with his belief that Israel commits what he calls “incremental genocide” in Palestine?
There is more of Dabashi’s rant about the worldwide assault on Muslims, about their ethnic cleansing, about the massacres of innocent Muslims, and the “genocide” waged against them, in his article. But I think you’ve had to endure quite enough of his nonsense. It’s all in the same wildly exaggerated and deeply dishonest vein. Meanwhile, outside of Dabashi’s fantasy world, Muslims are on the march. There are the Islamic terrorist groups: Islamic State, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Shebaab, Jabhat Al-Nusra, Abu Sayyaf, Islamic Jihad, and others whose names we do not know. All of them are still intact. Al Qaeda has taken a hit in Afghanistan, but branches have appeared in Yemen and the Sinai and Syria and Libya. Similarly, the Islamic State has been defeated, for now, in Syria and Iraq, but it has branches in Libya, Yemen, the Sinai, the Philippines, and Afghanistan. According to the Rand Corporation, there are an estimated 230,000 Salafist Jihadi fighters in these groups, four times as many as there were in 2001.
There are tens of millions of Muslims now living in Europe, deep behind what they are taught to regard as enemy lines, and 5.2 million more in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. They are conducting what Robert Spencer first called the Stealth Jihad, not open warfare, but a slow undermining of the West, in order to gradually impose the Sharia, or holy law of Islam. Muslims are not facing “genocide” or “concentration camps,” not enduring “massacres,” nor being “mowed down on a daily basis.” They are doing quite well, thank you, though Hamid Dabashi wants you to see them as the innocent victims of unrelenting Unbelievers. His side — Islam — is doing just fine. We’re the ones who need to worry.
Rarely says
It is easily arguable that Europe, the U.S. and Israel are at fault too.
If you give matches to a two-year old and the house gets burnt down you carry some fault. If you give those matches to a known adult arsonist with limited reasoning ability and well-known venom in his heart do you wonder if he starts a fire? If you give unlimited supplies of alcohol to a known alcoholic do you wonder what part you played in the car accident that followed?
Unfortunately we are well past the “supply” stage.
b.a. freeman says
sigh … OK, attempt number 4, with a different browser …
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yes, giving matches to a 2-year-old, or to an ansonist, or giving alcohol to an alcohol addict, will predictably lead to bad things, but if one tries to warn against such practices, and one loses access to banks (for credit card transactions), hosting sites, and internet access because of making those warnings, and is furthermore prevented from earning a living because one is smeared as a racist bigot, on whom should the blame fall? should not the liars who smear those who are trying to warn not to give matches to 2-year-olds or arsonists, or alcohol to alcoholics, not have the blame places squarely on them?
people like robert spencer, hugh fitzgerald, and christine douglas-williams are having these things done to them, right now. if the liars attacking them had their way, all the staff writers (and most of the commenters) on this site would lose all income and never be offered employment again for the rest of their lives. if the left were to act in the best interests of the nation, they would heed the warnings of these folks, and our rulers (who represent only themselves, and have no desire to listen to anybody else) would finally listen, and stop handing out matches and alcohol.
good luck with THAT one. i have no choice but to believe that the hard left *WANTS* to use the attacks of pious muslims to destroy society; they are not stupid, but they pretend that islam is safe, never once examining the scriptures, even in order to silence critics of islam. in my book, they are as good as nazis, and about as trustworthy. and since the majority of citizens in every dying republic (the u.s. is included in that) understand neither islam, the left, nor freedom, i have every expectation that civilization will soon be over, and the ummah will win. nevertheless, i will fight the left and the ummah to my dying breath; it may be a lost cause (sure looks like it, anyway), but the u.s. republic is worth dying for.
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Hamid Dabashi on All the Terrible Things Being Done to Muslims (Part Five)
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Of course Muslims slaughtering Muslims is the fault of the ‘filthy Infidels’! Whose fault could it be? sarc/off
Dave says
At least someone else is doing the dirty work for us. Long may the enmity between muslims continue. They hate everyone, even themselves.
Lauren Hermann says
+1
Buraq says
Give a committed pacifist a ton of weapons and the weapons will remain unused! A person’s world view decides whether someone pulls the trigger, or not. Dabashi and his Jihadi friends put the ‘fist’ in ‘pacifist’! Clown!
dan christensen says
“There are tens of millions of Muslims now living in Europe, deep behind what they are taught to regard as enemy lines, and 5.2 million more in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.”
Most of these migrant are invading beggars. The arrive without any skills, because their countries of origin are devoid of industrial capabilities, technical and medical knowledge.
Islamic lands are agrarian societies, submerged in medieval religious thinking; antagonistic to importing western organized thinking.
The tens of millions of muslims have to start all over in the west.
They must be housed, fed and clothed. They must learn to read, write and understand math.
After maybe ten years, the youngest and most able of them might have a chance to get a job.
The majority of the migrants spend their idle life multiplying themselves, paid by western taxpayers, who only can watch being demographically outnumbered.
Muslims will never be able to operate a modern technical complex society, so why is the West occupied by permitting a global invasion from the world’s shitholes.
Some people might consider it suicidal, even for the Western Elites who is orchestrating their own demise.
Islam means death and war – do not expect muslim gratitude.