Western media are reporting on the beheading of Peter Kassig, a young American aid worker who was kidnapped by Daesh last year. The young man’s beheading, including that of a dozen Syrian soldiers was according to Daesh, done in the name of Islam. US President Barack Obama is propagating the killing by blaming it on the jihadi spirit or culture of Islam to further defame the religion.
While blaming Islam for the killings, President Obama and Western media seem to have forget about the fact that Daesh is the result of funding and training by various Western countries with the purpose of killing, and for that reason, they should not be refered to as Islamist terrorists.
When the Buddhists of Burma massacred the Muslim Rohingyas, was it called Buddhist terror? No, not at all and instead, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1991 and also responsible for the suffering of the Rohingyas is praised by the US and President Obama is even encouraging her to run for Presidency, despite her ignorance towards the basic human rights of the Muslim Rohingyas.
The West is using the blame game to defame Islam but it was they who created the jihadis to fight for the Afghans against the Russians, it was they who created and financed Osama Bin Laden, it was they who created Daesh and now, they are refusing to stop financing them for as long as they keep fighting against the US enemy - Syria and most importantly, President Bashar Al Assad. What an irony!
- The reader is a Pakistani resident based in Karachi, Pakistan
