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If history teaches that religious communities can perfectly and peacefully cohabitate alongside one another, and oftentimes lean on each other to flourish and stand for the greater political good of the nation, our immediate reality, and by that I mean in this day and age, has already proven that it is conflicts which have defined how we interact, think ourselves and more importantly define ourselves.

And while religions and beyond that, faith in general have little to do with any of this so-called clash of civilizations politicians have been keen to push forward, we have failed to recognize that it is the political which has wielded sectarianism to promote neocons’ agenda.

Islam we have been told needs reforming. I say Islam is perfect just the way it is, just the way it was meant and just the way it was sent, thank you very much! Implying that the Divine requires fixing is so beyond the pale of narcissistic egocentrism I will not attempt to reason with it. People need reforming, religious understanding needs reforming, society needs reforming …. How can you ever attempt to reform God?

Islam we have been told is a violent religion which promotes and calls for the killing of the “infidels”, among other niceties clerics apparently have championed over the decades, like: the oppression of women, child marriages, and physical violence.

Islam does not stand for any of those things. What it does however is legislate over the affairs of men, and since wars and bloodlettings are part of our collective reality, Islam addresses those issues as to bring balance to our chaotic passions.

Islam speaks of wars and punishment to assert justice and social cohesion, it stands for self-defense and people’s rights to demand reparation when they have been wronged. Isn’t it what the Justice system stands for?

Both the pages of the Bible and the Torah are filled with tales of revenge, oppression and military retribution - does it make their faith violent? Are we calling in question the intentions behind the admonitions? No we are not! Why you may ask? Because both Judaism and Christianity are not presented as foreign. Islam however has been painted as the faith of the “others” - the crusaders, who all those centuries ago dared oppose the first wave of Western colonialism.

Another point I would like to make in reference to Islam - Islam is the faith of Abraham, Moses, Jacob and Jesus; Muhammad was only the last of a long line of prophets, all each other’s progenies. So when you slash and bash Islam it is a piece of your own traditions, your own tenets you are spitting at and rejecting.

But of course hate does not accept reason! Hate can only be bred from ignorance, and so many will keep on hating, not realising that they stand next in line for ostracisation. Racism is capitalism’s sister in arms - let it go unchecked and it will cannibalize society until nothing is left to feed on.

May the real tyrants please stand up!

So the West is at war with Islam, or so its elite says anyway. Let’s look at things objectively though - politicians don’t really care for religions, they only care about power and riches. The Old World has always ambitioned to control Asia and Africa, for both continents hold immeasurable wealth. Britain’s Empire was built on mass land-grabbing and oppression. Scrap that! European empires were built upon land-grabbing and mass oppression of local populations.

Today, our modern day imperial power, the United States of America is following the same political and military model. Only this time it found a cover - the War on Terror.

To still believe that the likes of Daesh (aka ISIS) did not receive help and military assistance from those very powers which claim to seek its destruction is ludicrous. There have been so many smoking guns over the years that we simply cannot pretend not to know. We do! You do! You simply don’t want to admit it to yourself as it would imply that you would have to call on your officials to face to the music of your anger … and THAT takes courage.

Western society is politically apathetic and lazy - or is it that we fear to remove the democratic blinders? Could it be that we recognize that our voices, our right to self-political determination stands today an empty shell devoid of any real power, and that we fear facing up to it? For the longest time people have not been able to influence policies. Politicians do what they want regardless, and more often than not despite the wishes of their people.

It was Ghandi who said that the idea of Western civilization was a nice thought indeed. I would add to that: “Western democracy would be a nice development.”

Is that democracy when an elite dictates agendas which are inherently harmful to their people? Is that democratic to strip nationals from their civil liberties on account the state wants to keep them safe? Isn’t it the very definition of a police state?

But let’s go back to terror and what it is that terror wants.

Terror wants to carve itself an empire in the Middle East. Interestingly enough this agenda echoes that of Western powers. The real question is - Is terror a Western proxy, acting a cover for a neo-colonialism?

Neo-colonialism and terror’s army

It sounds far-fetched right? I mean our governments would never intentionally sacrifice their people for the sake of political mandates … Really? Think again.

What has happened since November 13? French President Francois Hollande justified an even grander budget deficit to meet France’s military expenses, Britain PM David Cameron finally can justify his calls for war against Syria and war refugees can now be openly discriminated against in the name of national security.

For every terror attack staged against Western capitals more wars have been waged in the Middle East. For every life lost in America or Europe, hundreds of thousands of Arabs, Asians, Kurds, Alawites … you know third world folks, have died. All for the greater good of course! Western nations are not butchers, they waged moral wars, just wars.

Who is playing who here?

But there is another facet to terror, one which speaks of social fracture and religious discrimination.

In its online magazine, Dabiq, this February, Daesh warned that “Muslims in the West will soon find themselves between one of two choices.” Weeks earlier, a massacre had occurred at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attack stunned French society, while bringing to the surface already latent tensions between French Muslims and their fellow citizens.

Every time terror has struck, hatred has come bubbling up, bringing old prejudices and rancour to the surface, driving a wedge in between communities on account of faith. Only terror knows no faith and Wahhabism, the ideology carried by Daesh is not Islamic. If you paid attention you would have realized that Muslims more than any other group suffered by the hands of the Black Flag army.

Wahhabi and Salafi clerics have systematically called for the death of all Muslims, safe from those who pledged themselves to their aberration. Muslims are not the enemy, if anything they are the target.

Daesh wants to polarize and divide; it said so itself. In Dabiq again Daesh wrote it “eliminated the grayzone,” representing coexistence between religious groups. As a result, it said, Muslims living in the West would soon no longer be welcome in their own societies. Treated with increasing suspicion, distrust and hostility by their fellow citizens as a result of the deadly shooting, Western Muslims would soon be forced to “either apostatize … or they [migrate] to the Islamic State and thereby escape persecution from the crusader governments and citizens.”

Whenever politicians advocate to collectively punish Muslims en masse through discriminatory migration policies, restrictions on religious freedoms, and grand surveillance schemes it is really terror’s game they are playing. Daesh seeks to radicalise, if not through brainwashing of the youth, through hatred and fear.

Terror is winning! But terror is not winning because it is recruiting more Muslims to its cause. It is winning because it is recruiting Western society to hate Muslims, thus fulfilling Wahhabis’ prophecy of a coming holy war in between the Church and its armies.

All the while weapon dealers and venture capitalists are gorging on the lucrative opportunities war opened up for them.