24 years since 9/11 - The west is at war with itself
The killing of Charlie Kirk is blowback for targeting others and not looking closer to home for terrorists. The chickens coming home to roost.
Twenty four years ago, September 11 2001 was deemed as a ‘good day to bury bad news’. Jo Moore, the then spin doctor of the Labour party, believed that global events, namely the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, were distraction enough to leak information about infighting within the Labour party. The thought process was that no one would notice with everything going on. The only problem was the emails were leaked and she eventually stepped aside.
Today the western world would give anything for a day where they could bury their bad news once again. The fissures in their own societies are now too stark to hide.
Nearly a quarter of a century after the events that sparked the ‘War on Terror’ we see what it truly was, a thinly veiled war on Islam, Muslims and their lands. A war that has cost hundreds of thousands of Muslim lives, cost trillions of dollars and demonised a religion and its people.
Iraq and Afghanistan were bombed. Every aspect of Islam was scrutinised, from politics to the dress code for women, and the masses within the western world have been racialised against Muslims.
All this in the name of fighting a war against an ideology that was painted as evil. An ideology said to want to destroy the Western way of life. Yet at the same time the real motivation for the 9/11 attacks, western foreign policy, was ignored.
This very premise of a contextless war, a war fought to rein in the evils of the world through regime change, endless wars and continuous propaganda, formed the basis of western foreign policy ever since 9/11.
Domestic policy was shaped by the same thinking. Despite living in the west for decades, many Muslims opposed the US and UK bombing Afghanistan and Iraq. The questioning of western foreign policy from within the west was treated as a green light to roll out policies designed to make Muslims more loyal to their home nations.
From Yvette Cooper’s British Islam, Boris Johnson’s letterbox jibe and the Prevent programme, there has been an incessant vitriolic war on the Muslim community. Often its most vulnerable, women and children, have been the main targets.
Even the current genocide in Gaza is a continuation of the same rhetoric. Resistance fighters are painted as fighting for an evil ideology that simply hates western Zionist values. This ignores the illegal and brutal occupation of someone else’s land for over seventy years.
Then there is the media and political propaganda against Islam and Muslims. Together, all this has created deeply radicalised elements of society who are willing to get violent. Last year’s Southport riots made this clear. The recent spontaneous displays of nationalistic pride in putting up flags are just an extension of two decades of demonisation of Muslims.
You would think that with so much money spent, so much effort made and so many lives lost, the world would now be a safer and more civilised place. Simply put, it is not.
Yesterday two events, on either side of the Atlantic Ocean, showed this reality starkly.
Keir Starmer meeting the war criminal Isaac Herzog at Downing Street, and the killing of Charlie Kirk in the US, proved that the western world has neither rid itself of the terrorist threat nor stopped supporting terrorism.
Isaac Herzog is a member of a terrorist regime that is enacting genocide on a civilian population in the name of its greater Israel project. It makes a mockery of the UK’s fight against terrorism, its need to remove dictators like Saddam Hussein, and its continuous calls for human rights in other parts of the world.
The ideas that have shaped policy since 9/11 are now laid bare as null and void. The UK can no longer lecture others on conduct when some of the most evil men are given the red carpet treatment.
The divides in American society have grown deeper since the election of Joe Biden five or so years ago. A then defeated Donald Trump questioned the election result, had his yobs storm Capitol Hill and continually decried democratic policies. Biden for his part was no different to Starmer in his support for the genocide in Gaza. He wasn’t labelled ‘genocide Joe’ for nothing.
Policies that followed divided America further, from abortion to transgender rights. Democrats and Republicans have never been so far apart. The only thing uniting them is their love of Zionism.
It is amongst this divide that Charlie Kirk gained notoriety as a commentator on gun laws, trans issues and Islam. He stood by the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms. He was vocally pro-nuclear family, supportive of traditional American values of Christendom, and hostile to Muslims and Islam.
He was also staunchly pro-Zionist. He claimed the starvation and death in Gaza was the fault of the Palestinians and even said there is no such place as Palestine. Behind his clean cut, white boy made good image he was a nasty piece of work.
Did he deserve a bullet in the head? Like most things in America, the jury is out on that one.
Here lies the elephant in the room. Kirk was not murdered by a Muslim or an immigrant. He was killed by someone who opposed his policies and had lost faith in the democratic system to bring change.
American society is so divided that debates on issues like transgender rights and gun laws now inevitably end in more division.
This is the same country that once made it its mission, in the words of George W Bush, a ‘crusade’ against evil so that American values could prevail. A country that now barely knows what American values are.
There is no pleasure in seeing anyone die. But those now decrying the murder of Kirk should have remembered that for the last two years when children in Gaza were being murdered and starved. Kirk had a family. So do all the others around the world who are bombed by America directly, or via its proxies such as Israel.
The Iraqi and Afghan men murdered by the American military also had families, mothers, sons and daughters. They lived with the same hopes and fears as every human being. They wanted peace and security yet they had it snatched away from them. Muslim women were raped in Abu Gharib, children locked up in Guantanamo Bay and even non-violent voices silenced via proxy faux-Muslim rulers.
The fight against terrorism should never have been against Islam or Muslims. It should have been against the root cause, which is a failing political and economic system in Capitalism. An ideal that wines and dines war criminals while failing to build cohesive societies at home.
The killing of Charlie Kirk is blowback for targeting others and not looking closer to home for terrorists. The chickens coming home to roost.
I for one have the political popcorn out, my feet in a comfy pair of slippers, as I watch America fall apart.
A lesson that those who live in glass houses should not have been throwing stones at the Muslim world since 9/11.
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