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Hollander and Putin turned Kurdish City

of Raqqa into a slaughter house


Hollander and Putin turned Kurdish City of Raqqa into a slaughter house

It is time for French society to realize its own shortcomings. If it chooses to


remain at war in the Middle East, if keeps treating its Muslim population as
second-class citizens, it cannot shed crocodile tears when innocent civilians
are suffering the consequences of its disastrous politics. "Nuking" them all,
directly with air strikes or figuratively with more social alienation, will not
work this time around.
Professor Victoria Fontan , Director of the Centre for Peace and Human Security at
The American University of Kurdistan and a Doctoral Candidate in War Studies at
Kings College London

By Latheef Farook :
Within 24 hours after Paris attacks on 13 Friday 2015, French President Francis
Hollander launched a full scale aerial bombardment of Kurdish Muslim city of Raqqa
under the guise of fighting ISIS.
He was joined in this deliberate carnage by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two
were fully backed by American President Barack Obama and the Prime Minister David
Cameroon - both soaked in the innocent Muslim blood. Israel remains integral part of
this crusade.
In fact Barack Obama wages his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while David Cameroon continues war criminal Tony
Blairs policy of slaughtering Muslims.
Attacks in Paris is fast proving to be a re-play of 9/11 tragedy in New York to intensify
the ongoing crusade to invade and destroy Muslim countries, kill Muslims and cripple
Muslim societies for generations to come.
Within 24 hours French President Francois Hollander accused American created,
Israeli trained and Saudi funded ISIS of being responsible for Paris attacks and
killings.
Russian President Vladimir Putin presented evidence of G20 member states providing

financial support to ISISduring the G20 summit in Antalya. Putin revealed that:
financing comes from 40 countries including some G20 members.
Within hours the western media, integral part of Western war machine, claimed that
the ISIS has admitted of committing these attacks though this report was yet to be
verified.
Within 48 hours, even before any one was arrested and questioned, President
Hollander dispatched latest of sophisticated destructive war planes to indiscriminately
bomb and kill ISIS members. In the process inevitably slaughtered innocent peopleall Muslims.
In the rush President Hollander also declared a state of emergency, re-established
external border controls and mobilized the French military while fears emerged of a
backlash against refugees in Europe.
This was exactly what war criminal George Bush did after the 9/11 tragedy in New
York when he accused Al Qaeda within 24 hours without any inquiry or basis and
dispatched war planes to bomb, destroy and indiscriminately kill Afghans followed by
Iraq which he turned into a wasteland.
However two days after the Paris massacre more evidence began to emerge
suggesting that the attacks may indeed have been an operation designed by Western
intelligence to hoodwink the world and justify intervention in Syria.
There were also reports earlier of intelligence chiefs of US. France and Israel meeting.

Commenting on Paris attacks columnist Sarah Lazare stated that; Franceassisted


by the United Stateslaunched its largest-yet bombing campaign against Raqqa,
which is home to an estimated 200,000 people. France has also bombed a soccer
stadium, hospital, museum, and government building. Raqqa residents have already
endured bombings by the U.S, Russian, Syrian, and French air forces, as well as the
brutality of the Islamic State.
Innocent children killed by French and Russian aerial bombardment
Andrew J. Bacevich professor of history and international relations at Boston
University, had this to say in The Boston Globe under the title A War the West Cannot
Win

"'France is at war,' we are told,". "But this is not our war: after the American disaster in
Iraq and Afghanistan, the current French interventions in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Mali, Chad,
Niger, Central African Republic, contribute to destabilizing these regions and trigger
the departure of migrants who face Fortress Europe and whose bodies are washed up
on our beaches."
Its not as if the outside world hasnt already given pitiless war a try. The Soviet Union
spent all of the 1980s attempting to pacify Afghanistan and succeeded only in killing a
million or so Afghans while creating an incubator for Islamic radicalism. Beginning in
2003, the United States attempted something similar in Iraq and ended up producing
similarly destabilizing results. By the time US troops withdrew in 2011, something like
200,000 Iraqis had died, most of the them civilians. Today Iraq teeters on the brink of
disintegration.
Years of fighting in Afghanistan exhausted the Soviet Union and contributed directly to
its subsequent collapse. Years of fighting in Iraq used up whatever Lets roll!
combativeness Americans may have entertained following 9/11.
Today, notwithstanding the Obama administrations continuing appetite for military
piddling airstrikes, commando raids, and advisory missions few Americans retain
any appetite for undertaking further large-scale hostilities in the Islamic world. Fewer
still will sign up to follow Hollander in undertaking any new crusade. Their reluctance to
do so is understandable and appropriate.
In proposing to pour yet more fuel on that fire, Hollander demonstrates a crippling
absence of imagination, one that has characterized recent Western statesmanship
more generally when it comes to the Islamic world. There, simply trying harder will not
suffice as a basis of policy.
Meanwhile warning against wars of vengeance, human rights advocates predicted
backlash against refugees. Writing about this columnist Deirdre Fulton had this to say;
As of Sunday eveningjust hours after it was launcheda petition rejecting "any
attempt by political leaders to exploit tragic events to promote more war" had already
garnered more than 10,000 signatures.
Guardian migration correspondent Patrick Kingsley agreed, questioning the narrative
of the Syrian passport and noting it strange "that a bomber would remember to bring
his passport on a mission, particularly one who does not intend to return alive."
In fact, Margaret Corvid pointed out at The Establishment: "Closing the borders as the
terrifying war continues in Syria will not punish the terrorists; it will only cause more
needless suffering and death, including to innocent children."
Professor Victoria Fontan Doctoral Candidate in War Studies at Kings College
London said that France must integrate French Muslims or face more violence.
Violence is never an answer, and acts of terrorism are unacceptable, yet in France,
freedom of expression is an la carte menu. While Islamophobia is seldom punished
in courts of law, hate speech laws are perceived by many to be implemented only

when other religions are being targeted.

While Islamophobia is still


rampant in French society, the French government has been meddling in Middle
Eastern affairs for some time. Under the Jacques Chirac administration in the 1990s
and early 2000s, the minister of foreign affairs, Dominique de Villepin, made a famous
speech at the UN rejecting Frances involvement in the Iraq war. This for many years
afforded France an aura of neutrality in the region, only to be shattered when the
Nicholas Sarkozy and Francoise Hollande administrations became more gung-ho than
US president George W Bush.
You cannot wage a war without threatening the lives of your own civilian population. It
is a simple equation that cannot be overlooked when privileging war over political
solutions in the Middle East. Russia recently, the United States in 2001, Spain in 2003,
and Britain in 2005 have all been targeted.
While the French media fakes expertise in Middle East politics by referring to the socalled Islamic State as Daesh, over and again, it fails to ask the right questions in
relation to the socio-political origins of the so-called Islamic State: the perceived
marginalization of one side of the population from another, the Sunni-Shia conflict. The
French failure to address this marginalization, a direct consequence of the US
invasion of Iraq, is not just an oversight; it also reflects societys inability to engage in
its own soul searching.
So France is no longer white and Christian; get over it. Past immigration policies have
changed the countrys demographics; it is now time to become aware of rampant
racism and start to fully integrate everyone into French society because there is no
other alternative that a state such as France may take. Regarding the current
migrant debate, it is important to understand that these "migrants" are not part of this
problem: in their countries, they are victims of terrorism just as Paris residents are
today. They were so desperate to live in Europe to flee from acts of terrorism; they
must not be our scapegoat.
It is time for French society to realize its own shortcomings. If it chooses to remain at
war in the Middle East, if keeps treating its Muslim population as second-class
citizens, it cannot shed crocodile tears when innocent civilians are suffering the

consequences of its disastrous politics. "Nuking" them all, directly with air strikes or
figuratively with more social alienation, will not work this time around. Ends
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