The hypocrisy of the West

“They are worse!” Bill Maher said of Muslims, branding Islam as “the only religion that acts like the Mafia.”

According to Maher, “Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas,” the Quran is a “hate-filled holy book” and “the Islamization of Europe” is underway.

But is the Quran more violent than the Bible? Religion historian Philip Jenkins compared both and stated, “Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.” He declares further, “By the standards of the time, which is the 7th century A.D., the laws of war that are laid down by the Quran are actually reasonably humane,” he says. “Then we turn to the Bible, and we actually find something that is for many people a real surprise. There is a specific kind of warfare laid down in the Bible which we can only call genocide.”

Bill Maher does not stand alone . . . he speaks for many, if not most people, living in the US and Europe. For them, Islam is not like the Judeo-Christian religions which are professed to be filled with love, compassion, understanding, and tolerance. It is portrayed as a religion of jihad and terrorism.

But if the Judeo-Christian world is filled with so much love, how does one explain the genocide of the Native Americans, the enslavement of Africans, the Ku Klux Klan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Holocaust against Jews, the apartheid of South Africa, the apartheid of Israel, the Crusades, etc. How many millions have died because of the religious dogma, as well as the capitalist agenda of world domination, of the Judeo-Christian world?

Although there are disagreements among scholars, they agree on one thing . . . Judaism, Christianity and Islam all accept and, in many cases, promote much violence.

The question today is what is it that promotes Islamic jihad? While we scapegoat the teachings of Islam, we neglect to consider the role of the West in these violent, so-called terrorist events.

When so-called terror attacks occur in England, France, or the US, we mourn, we pay tribute to the victims, we pray for them, we hold candlelight vigils, etc. Yet, for the past 14 years, the West has imposed continuous, daily terror on the people of Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, bombing and killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions who are now homeless. Is it coincidental that the great majority of these victims are Muslims? I am not aware of any attempt by the people of the West to mourn and pray for these victims or to stop the holocaust being carried out by their governments. They remain passive until the people of the West are victimized.

Is it the religion of Islam that is responsible for these attacks against the West or might it be an attempt to fight back against the tyranny of the armies of NATO? The oppressed people of the brutalized countries are using the only weapons they have . . . they do not have the armaments and hardware to fight the powerful armies of the West so they rely on terror attacks much like the Israelis did when they wanted to rid Israel of the British presence or the Black South Africans did in fighting apartheid.

People have a right and an obligation to resist colonization and oppression by any means necessary.

Dave Alpert has masters degrees in social work, educational administration, and psychology. He spent his career working with troubled inner city adolescents.

One Response to The hypocrisy of the West

  1. Joan Mootry

    Bill Maher is a Jew. Of course, he speaks badly of Muslims. He is a Zionist, and Zionists use every form of brutality against Muslims. The author needs to read the Jewish Talmud to learn how violently it debases goyim, even encouraging murder. Further, the author seems unaware that many so called “terrorist” attacks are actually false flags orchestrated by the west and Israel to create fear and hatred of Muslims while justifying their own illegal invasions of sovereign nations. Cassius Clay became a Muslim in order to live a life of peace and benevolence. He did so based on his study of Muslim principles. The current and constant propaganda against Muslims is being fomented by Jews in order to protect and install their infamous and corrupt Rothschild banking system in every country possible, as well as to take over the entire middle east for their “Greater Israel” project. The author needs to start doing some definitive research and follow up this misleading article with an honest and in depth piece that tells the entire story.