The Way Some Talk After the Paris Attacks, You’d Think Muslim Nations Had Never Been Imperialists Themselves
20th November 2015
From Ramadani’s history lesson you would never know that Muslim nations were ever imperialists on their own account, ever brawled among themselves or made life hard for others. The bombing of synagogues in Baghdad in the early 1950s? The work of Zionists, you fools. The long campaign of terror carried out by Islamists in Syria in the 1970s and 80s, Syria’s support for Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood’s uprising in Hama? All a lie because, as Ramadani told Russian television, “neither Syria nor Iraq had any terrorist organisations before the American invasion of Iraq in 2003”.
Nobody cares to remember that the areas in which fighting is now going on were conquered by Arab Muslims from people who were Not Bothering Them. Syria, ‘Palestine’, and Egypt were Christian, full of people who were Not Arabs. Iraq was Persian.