Islam And The West

Most of us by now will have seen some of the images from the Abu Ghraib prision scandal in Iraq. Just to jog your memory the incident came to light in August 2004 when CBS’s 60 Minutes aired allegations that U.S. armed forces personal were involved in torture and the unlawful killing of Iraqi detainees. Much of the content of what actually transpired in Abu Ghraib is considered still to this day by U.S. authorities as being too explicit for public consumption. Probably because a great deal of it was of torture and sexual in nature.

In the final outcome after investigations and court trails a number of low ranking forces personal were punished for what happened in Abu Ghraib. The U.S. government maintains that the scandal represented the actions of a “few bad apples in the barrel”. However critics of the administration claim that those in the chain of command running all the way up to the then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should be held accountable. They claim that it was the Defense Department and the upper echelons of the political establishment that created the ambiguity in the rules of interrogation that lead to the crimes at Abu Ghraib. How much of this is true only time will tell. These matters have a habit of coming to light at some point most usually after all the participants have long since died.

The reason why I brought up this topic today was because I saw the following video. It is produced by an Australian who views the actions of those forces personal in Abu Ghraib as being entirely justified. A justification he bases on the fact that the United States was attacked in 2001.

It will come as no surprise that such people exist. The point of this post is not to draw attention to that. It is however to ask the question where is the outrage from the west against people who think in such a manner ? Why are they allowed to hide behind the mantra of freedom of speech/ expression in order to spread their venomous hate. The producer of this clip gave life to his fantasies, he is after all only one person but dare I say there are many others who think and feel like him. What is the west doing to combat the cancer of hate that is in its midst ?

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