London bomber Muhammad Sadiq Khan, a 30-year-old British national from West Yorkshire, said responsibility for the attacks on European and US cities fell squarely on the shoulders of the West.<br /><br />He explained the West was backing governments that were carrying out crimes against humanity.<br /><br />"Your [the West's] democratically elected governments continue to perpetuate atrocities against my people all over the world.<br /><br />"Your support for them makes you directly responsible ... until we feel security, you will be our targets. Until you stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people, we will not stop."<br /><br />More at http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B22D0ADF-D0EB-4DC0-9C6E-7671F19CD589.htm <br /><br /><br />Dear Mr Khan,<br /><br />Let me get this right.<br /><br />You voluntarily blow up innocent people in London, the capital of the land of your birth which nurtured you for 30 years, and its the Wests fault? <br /><br />Why isnt it your peoples fault that the West is, just to take a wild example, in Afghanistan? Could it be that there was some link between us being in Afghanistan and Mr bin Ladens camps there; and 9/11; and the West thinking it was about time to put an end to the threat posed to it by your people in Afghanistan? <br /><br />Obviously not. Your people are always the victims. Just remind me what it was that the West did to your people that is a crime against humanity and that is even remotely similar to 9/11 which some of us stupidly thought was a crime against humanity and entitled us to be rather firm in our response to the people who did it.<br /><br />Oh, taking your oil. Yes, that was really evil. All those Saudis etc running around the planet in private planes to casinos and drinking alcohol and rooting Western women and so on. Thats our fault, for sure. We held guns to their heads and said Take our money. Make ridiculous profits for absolutely no work. Well build everything. All you have to do is collect the money. Hold us to ransom in the 70s oil crisis. Spend it all on booze and gambling and whoring in defiance of your religion, because we really care about what you do with the money. And, by the way, make sure that your people dont get too much of it..<br /><br />Apart from that, the West perpetuated atrocities [maybe you should have checked the difference between perpetuated and perpetrated while you had access to a dictionary on Earth] against your people by doing exactly what? <br /><br />Creating corrupt and brutal dictatorships of one Islamic sort or another that have run Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Indonesia etc for at least the past quarter century, and in some cases a lot, lot longer? <br /><br />It must be our fault that most of these countries have amounted to nothing, despite being fully independent of the West for at least 25 years and despite the vast wealth the West forced them at gunpoint to take off it for the oil they didnt want to sell us to maintain the lavish lifestyles we forced them to maintain in defiance of Islam. Or maybe if theyd distributed it outside the dictators favored group theyd be better off. I guess thats the Wests fault, too, for not interfering in those nations affairs to make sure that the crooks and thugs running them did the right thing by your people. <br /><br />No, that cant be right, because youre upset that were in Afghanistan and Iraq. Thats why you want to kill us. Thats why were responsible for you blowing up people in London. Its all our fault, Certainly not yours.<br /><br />Hang on, didnt your lot start it a bit before we went into Afghanistan to get rid of the vipers nest there? I guess the twin towers were Ron Reagans fault for getting rid of the air traffic controllers. Like the earlier attempt with truck bombs in the basement of the WTC was probably the fault of the parking officer for letting them into the building?<br /><br />It must be our fault that Iran had a revolution to get rid of the Shah and then got into a war with Iraq a quarter of a century ago, which ranks as one of the most brutal wars ever. It couldnt be that Muslims were fighting Muslims, could it? No, the Iranians rented the Swiss Guard from the Pope and Iraq rented the Shaolin Monks, because Muslims dont fight Muslims, your people being just 1.6 billion people engaged in an eternal group hug around the planet in joyous celebration of that Mohammed fellow. Like when Iraq didnt invade Kuwait and the Ottoman Empire didnt enslave the Middle East and Saddam and his minority Muslim lot didnt enslave the other majority Muslim lot in Iraq. Oh yes, your people are a great example to the West of love, harmony, and all that makes living worthwhile. Or, in your case, dying for your people. Theyre definitely a much better lot than us.<br /><br />It follows that its our fault that Saddam gassed the Kurds who, oddly enough, I thought were your people. Or maybe they werent. Perhaps Saddam imported some other people especially for the event. Like the Amish, because theyve got beards too? Or maybe because theyre used to horses, which is a step up even from the donkeys your people often think are a transport marvel.<br /><br />Obviously its our fault Iraq invaded Kuwait. If that silly American ambassador had made it clearer to Saddam that the US would prefer that Iraq stay within its borders, then GW I wouldnt have happened. <br /><br />Bloody Americans! Yet another war theyre responsible for. Just like when they forced Hitler to invade Poland and Japan to make a sneak attack on Pearl Harbour all those years ago, when your people were often living in caves and mud huts and starving. Not that much has changed in the intervening 60 years in a lot places run by your people.<br /><br />I really like your statement: Until you stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people, we will not stop.". That is an all time hilarious knee-slapper funny. I mean, the king of all those activities against your people was good old Saddam. If he wasnt engaged in a continual crime against humanity against your people (by your people, but I suppose you dont want to admit that) I dont know what would be a crime against humanity. <br /><br />We got rid of Saddam and stopped all that evil, and now youre upset with us because what we did was wrong? How about we revive Uday etc and let them get back to torturing and killing your people because they lose a soccer match?<br /><br />Sure, we did some bad things in Saddams old prisons that shouldnt have been done. Unlike what Saddam and your people have a long and sad history of doing, which is doing nothing to correct even the worst of their many crimes against humanity, the perpetrators of these fairly minor events have been dealt with by a properly constituted legal system. The fact that so many in the West were outraged by those who shamed us by their mistreatment of other human beings is what sets us apart from you and your people. Compared with what your people did to your people in Abu Ghraib for years it is not even a grain of black sand in the whole shining universe.<br /><br />Now for your next statement about democratically elected governments. <br /><br />Does this just reflect the usual horror people like you have of a political system that does things offensive to your people, like treating women as people with equal rights who dont have to cover themselves up because uptight rock apes like you overcome with Islamic purity might get an uncontrollable woody and rape them if you caught sight of something really sexy, like a wisp of hair carelessly blown from under their hijab or burka? The Taliban sure knew how to deal with that, beating women senseless in the street for those sorts of offences against your people. Im assuming that the victims of those beatings, and the women who died from lack of medical care because they couldnt be attended by the male doctors your people hadnt killed and because women doctors couldnt practise to treat the women among your people, were your people. No, that cant be right because youre committed to protecting your people from atrocities. <br /><br />Maybe its the Wests fault for not stopping the Taliban moral police from belting the tripe out of the women among your people for serious offences like wearing white socks. Or doing the same to men for not having beards long enough. No, that cant be right, either. Weve stopped those things by getting the Taliban out of control of Afghanistan, but now you say you have to bomb us because of these atrocities perpetuated against your people. I guess the atrocity we committed there was giving your women the right to live free of fear. Thats an atrocity, for sure. Its certainly one Im proud to have supported.<br /><br />Or do you mean that because we in the decadent West live in a democracy then everyone is a target as were all part of the nations that you regard as the ones perpetuating atrocities on your people. <br /><br />Well, Mr Mohammed Sadiq Khan, currently surrounded by your 72 virgins (if not, I guess thats going to be an eternal disappointment) I actually didnt vote for our current leader and I was opposed to the invasion of Iraq, even though I think that regardless of how we got there we should stay in Iraq to sort out the mess we created to help your people to a far better life than the one they had when last run by your people. Still, my support for those crimes against humanity obviously entitles you and your ilk to kill me, my wife, my children and everyone else here and in the West. Not to mention those of your people who dont agree with you, as happens daily in Iraq when your people kill your people so the right type of your people can dominate the rest of your people. Just like under Saddam. Definitely a better result than the one the West is aiming for.<br /><br />Now that youve established the principle of collective guilt which entitles you to kill me and all my countrymen and everybody else who shares our values, how would you feel if the West nuked you and every country that had people who looked like you? Its the same principle youre applying to us.<br /><br />The difference is that we in the West, for all our faults and internal divisions, do our best to act justly, fairly, and honourably, with due regard for the noblest principles of human rights. You can find these enshrined in decadent documents like the UN Charter on Civil and Political Rights or the US Constitution. <br /><br />The only reason you and your people could fly planeloads of innocents into buildings full of innocents, or blow your useless self up in London and kill more innocents, is because those principles gave you the freedom of movement in America and Britain, and in due course in Australia when you finally manage an attack here, that is denied to you and your people in all the countries run by your people.<br /><br />Sure, we often fall short of the noble principles we espouse and defend. A lot of what we do isnt perfect. <br /><br />I accept that lots of innocents have died in Iraq. But the ones who have been dying there for the past couple of years, when your people could have had peace if people like you werent fighting there, have been killed mainly by your people and specifically by people just like you. If you want to stop the killing of your people in Iraq, just stop it. Its not rocket science. But you and your people want to go on killing your people until you and your lot have control of your people. Because the end justifies the means and you just want control to bring in your own Sharia state as part of the great Caliphate, run by people just like you.<br /><br />If we were like you, you sad and perverted little excuse for a human being, there would be a nuclear wastleland stretching from Istanbul to Islamabad; Mecca would be vaporized; everyone like you would be rounded up and executed in every Western country without regard to your rights; and wed have no more trouble from you and your people.<br /><br />The only reason its not a nuclear wasteland and that your people continue to live safely among us in the West is because we dont think like you and we dont act like you. And you and your people had better hope we never do. Because then you really will experience an atrocity and youd have something to complain about, except you wont be around to complain. <br /><br />But it wont happen, because our values are different to yours. In the fullness of time, they will triumph as they have throughout human history over every foul doctrine that has sprung up from mean, black hearts like yours.<br /><br /><br />Yours etc<br /><br />Tinkr.
