Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts
Since 1948, almost 10 million Muslims have died at the
hands of fellow Muslims
August
24, 2011 6:52 am By Marisol Seibold
Where is the outrage over that?
Double standards abound. As the Israeli envoy Dan Gillerman said in 2008: “When
Christians kill Muslims, it’s the Crusades. When Jews kill Muslims it’s murder,
and when Muslims kill Muslims, it’s like talking about the weather. Nobody
really cares about it.”
And as the late Samuel P.
Huntington observed: “Wherever one looks along the perimeter of Islam, Muslims
have problems living peaceably with their neighbors. The question naturally
rises as to whether this pattern of the late 20th century conflict between
Muslim and non-Muslim groups is equally true of relations between groups from
other civilizations. In fact, it is not. Muslims make up 1/5 of the world’s
population but in the 1990s they have been far more involved in intergroup
violence than the people of any other civilization….Islam’s borders are bloody,
and so are its innards.”
Note also the Ahmadinejadesque (to
coin a new term) rhetoric from
It has been more than two and a
half years since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan told to Israeli President
Shimon Peres”s face, “You (Jews) know well how to kill.” Prime Minister
ErdoÄŸan has also declared more than a few times that the main obstacle to
peace in this part of the world is Israel ,
once calling the Jewish state “a festering boil in the Middle
East that spreads hate and enmity.” In this holy month of
Ramadan full of blood on Muslim territories, let’s try to identify who are the
ones who know well how to kill.
As the Syrian death count clicks
every day to come close to 2,000, the Turkish-Kurdish death count does not
stop, already over 40,000 since 1984, both adding to the big pool of blood
called the
Let’s speak of facts.
But a simple, strictly Middle East
research will give you one million deaths in the all-Muslim Iran-Iraq war;
300,000 Muslim minorities killed by Saddam Hussein; 80,000 Iranians killed
during the Islamic revolution; 25,000 deaths in 1970-71, the days of Black
September, by the Jordanian government in its fight against the Palestinians;
and 20,000 Islamists killed in 1982 by the elder al-Assad in Hama. The World
Health Organization’s estimate of Osama bin Laden’s carnage in Iraq was
already 150,000 a few years earlier.
In a 2007 research, Gunnar Heinsohn
from the
It bears repeating that the Arab
nations went to war with Israel
with the expectation of annihilating the Jewish state once and for all. But the
Arab states kept losing the wars.
According to Mssrs. Heinsohn and
Pipes, the grisly inventory finds the total number of deaths in conflicts all
over the world since 1950 numbering around 85 million. Of that, the Muslim Arab
deaths in the Arab-Israeli conflict were at 46,000 including 11,000 during
In another calculation ignoring
“small” massacres like the one that goes on in Syria and other deaths during
the Arab Spring, only Saddam’s Iraq, Jordan, the elder al-Assad’s Syria,
Iran-Iraq war, the bin Laden campaign in Iraq, the Iranian Islamic revolution
and the Turkish-Kurdish conflict caused 1.65 million Muslim deaths by Muslims
compared to less than 50,000 deaths in the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1950,
including fatalities during and after Operation Cast Lead which came after the
Heinsohn-Pipes study. For those who don’t have a calculator ready at their
desks, allow me to tell: 50,000 is three percent of 1.65 million.
Golda Meir, the fourth prime
minister of .
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