NEW YORK, NY, USA — Stop apologizing for Al Qaeda. You didn’t create them, the Central Intelligence Agency did. Stop apologizing for every act of violence perpetrated by Muslims - unless you demand that every Christian and Jew apologize for the murderous acts of their co-religionists, too. Enough already. Stand tall, walk proud, and love yourselves because Islam is a great religion and Islamic history is a very rich and impressive one.

Since September 11, 2001, Muslims around the world have had unrelenting pressure brought to bear on them to apologize, or explain, or condemn every act of violence committed by those who call themselves Muslims. And that is exactly what Islamic leaders have been so pathetically doing - incessantly and fruitlessly trying to explain to an already-indoctrinated audience that not all Muslims are evil or violent.

Yes, the 9/11 terror attacks were a truly grotesque act of mass murder, leading to the deaths of 3,000 innocent men, women, and children. But their lives and their innocence was not greater than the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives lost as a result of Western and Zionist aggression. How many 9/11s have been unleashed against the Iraqi people in the last four years alone, to say nothing of the countless victims generated as a direct result of US-led economic sanctions during the 8 years prior to the invasion?

Why is it more evil to plan an attack like 9/11 than to conspire to wage a war of aggression against a defenseless nation and reduce it to rubble? The answer is, it isn’t - so stop apologizing.

When someone asks you to condemn Islamic violence, demand they first condemn Christian and Jewish violence and apologize for the disproportionate amount of death and destruction they have visited upon the world. Because, if you added up every fatality caused by all the so-called Islamic fundamentalist organizations combined, they would barely amount to a fraction of the murders committed by Christians and Jews in the last 100 years alone.

When you are reminded of how Muslim financial support for terrorist organizations has led to thousands of deaths around the world, don’t forget to remind them how Zionist Jewish bankers in New York, Germany, and England funneled millions of dollars to the Bolsheviks, who killed an estimated 20 million Russian Orthodox Christians between 1917 and 1945.

You may also wish to remind them that $5 billion a year from the US has been funding Israel’s 40-year occupation of the West Bank and Jerusalem, its construction of segregated Jewish supremacist settlements, and its continued violation of dozens of UN resolutions, to say nothing of its history of violence against innocent Arab civilians.

The Israelis who get blown up on buses are not more important than the Palestinians killed by American-supplied Israeli tanks, planes, bombs, and missiles. By all means mourn and condemn the US and British lives recently lost to terrorist acts, but don’t forget to remind the world to condemn the wholesale killing of hundreds of Lebanese civilians during last summer’s savage Israeli bombing campaign, using cluster bombs and other munitions supplied by the US and transported to Israel via Britain. Not only did President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair fail to condemn Israel at the time for what were obviously grievous violations of international humanitarian law, but they also blocked any attempt by the UN to intervene and supplied the arms to help the attack along.

It is indeed quite impressive that Western leaders don’t “teach” their young men and women to strap bombs to themselves and blow themselves up like militant Muslim leaders do. But, then again, why would they when they have their armies to do that? I mean, why use a pathetic little homemade bomb when you can drop a 2,268-kilogram (5,000-pound) Daisy Cutter? Why content yourself with bringing down two buildings when you can reduce entire neighborhoods to rubble as those in Bint Jbail, Beirut, Jenin, Gaza, Fallujah, and Kabul have been?

To somehow mitigate the criminality of the terror perpetrated on behalf of the Western ruling elite, it is oftentimes pointed out by their apologists that Muslims themselves have, in the past, and present, killed each other - frequently with cruelty and without mercy - as they are now doing in Iraq. Well, the fact is, Christians have acted in the exact same way among themselves. Remember the 200,000 Germans incinerated in Dresden in 72 hours? Or the obliteration of 180,000 civilians in Hiroshima, then the only Christian city in Japan? What about the massive Christian-on-Christian violence in the Balkans, including 78 days of round-the-clock US bombing? The list goes on. Do those facts somehow negate the criminality of Muslim terrorism against Christians?

The point here is not to make excuses or justify the killing of innocents by Muslims. But rather to point out that it must also be recognized and understood Muslim violence is not inherently more evil than that perpetrated by their accusers. And the loss of Muslim life as a result of Western imperialist and colonialist aggression is not more benign than the killing of innocents as a result of so-called “religious” imperatives. The time is long overdue for Muslims to stop speaking from a position of apology and weakness and to start exercising the moral imperative they have to stand up for themselves.

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Author: Victor Lama