Faruque Ahmed :
The Munich massacre that left nine people killed and 22 injured in the hands of a young German national of Iranian origin came as yet another shock to the civilized world. The German authorities have however immediately made clear that it was a homegrown extremist and ISIS has no link with it. His victims included three children from Turkey, three Albanian children from Kasovo and at least one Greek child and a 41-year old German woman.
It invariably shows how closely knitted are the destiny of global people no matter where any massacre takes place. The killing in Nice, on July 14 during the French Independence Day celebration was also an act of an anti-social lunatic. His 84 victims had Frenchmen, US, Russian, Swiss, Ukrainian, Italy and some other nationalities.
The ISIS claimed him as one of their soldiers, but he was not. The West must also understand it clearly that ISIS is using Islam, but we have nobody so much against everything that Islam teaches. ISIS grows out of Bush-Blair war in Iraq and America’s unhelpful policy in Syria.
They at most exploited Nice killer’s despair who had acted in anger to protest the socio-economic injustices and an anti-immigrant apartheid system now at work in France against migrant population of its former colonies. But when we mourn such tragedies, it increasingly appears that they are the byproduct of Bush-Blair’s war game that they started on a fake claim to save the World from Iraq’s so-called nuclear threat.
The war has now spread to Syria, Libya and beyond. The West is bombing the Arab people and destroying their homes in the name of establishing peace. But when the locals fight back with small firearms they say it is terrorism. France’s bombing in Syria killed many people to make France their targets.
Meanwhile, the war has partly shifted to European cities. Paris came under attacks thrice in last 18 months in which more than 250 people died. Attacks on Brussels and Istanbul airports and London’s underground railways showed the war is moving out of Middle-East to European capitals. Explosion in Madrid railway few years back left over hundred people killed.
Meanwhile, the influx of over a million Arab refugees made Europe further devastated making it a highly divisive issue in EU politics threatening a split in the union.
It appears that Islamist jihadists and Christian right wing extremists are becoming equal danger to the safety of people and stability of nations. The fact is that the global media always highlight jihadists as enemies of peace but Christian right wing extremists remain largely unreported.
News report said another explosion went off in the Munich region Sunday night killing at least one and injuring several others. It was not immediately clear who carried out it. But one thing is clear that Bush-Blair duo is responsible for destroying the post Second World War peace in the Middle-East that made the world most dangerous now to live in.
They started a post-colonial war to colonize the Middle-East again and now killing thousands day and night and nobody is safe now from such killing — be it in Europe or the USA.
We must say the jihadists are wrong in their radical ideology and methods of war putting unjust blame on Islam as a peaceful religion. But their fight to protect their land can’t be unjustified. A French man twitted after the Nice massacre saying he has to reassure friends twice in a week that he was safe. But who bothers how many people being killed in the Middle-East on daily basis.
Muslims are killing Muslims in Baghdad streets where Bush-Blair started the war. Western bombings and Russian planes are killing helpless patients at Aleppo hospitals and nobody is much worried about it. But people are no longer fool, they know the use of technology and making a just peace can only make the world livable.
It is noticeable that the Munich and Nice killers and Orlando nightclub shooter were all mentally sick and deranged. The question is why all those young people of Muslim origin became deranged. Social discrimination may be one such reasons. There is no doubt that the mass killing and war game in the Middle-East may have also serious impact on their mindset.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is at a loss how 18-year-old could become a killer. Her country has given everything to the new generation. But the writings on walls in German cities show how right wing ultra-nationalists are growing as a big challenge. A Norwegian far-right terrorist killed 77 young people in a killing spree in Oslo in 2013. We must say the West has made big mistake by pushing war in the Arab lands. It has not only created jihadists but also caused the rise of the right wingers in their society and they will have to pay heavily for it.
