Dropping the Context: About that Anti-Muslim Video

Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Dropping the Context: About that Anti-Muslim Video
by Sheldon Richman

Perhaps if the West, and especially the United States since World War II, hadn't subjected Arabs and Muslims in Asia and Africa to nonstop brutality -- if the U.S. hadn't embargoed and invaded Muslim countries -- if the U.S. hadn't bombed innocent civilians, increasingly by remote-controlled killer drones -- if the U.S. hadn't sponsored repressive dictators and monarchs throughout the Muslim world -- if the U.S. hadn't tortured Muslims at Guantanamo and Bagram, and sent others to be tortured in the dictatorships to which it rendered suspected terrorists -- if the U.S. hadn't enabled Israel's savage treatment of the Palestinians, the occupation and confiscation of their land, and the devastating invasions of its neighbors -- if U.S. troops hadn't peed on Afghan corpses -- and if U.S. troops hadn't burned Qurans in Afghanistan --

Maybe -- just maybe -- that ridiculous anti-Muslim video would not have caused the outrage we witness today.


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