Would the US have attacked a white christian Iraq? (for the oil maybe?)

(Also, would they have attacked North Korea by now if North Korea was Muslim?)


Thank god (the Hindu gods of course:p) the Tamils are not Muslims. Or else, the world (the west predominantly, but the east is now following suit) would just have branded the LTTE as "islamist jihadists". Like they do with the ones in Chechnya. And with the ones who did the blasts in Karachi recently. And with the ones in Palestine. And probably now the ones in Kashmir too.

(If the Assamese had a Muslim majority, the ULFA would be branded as just another example of jihad too.)

(I will not insult the reader's intelligence by explaining why those movements are not any jihad).

I am tired, of all this Islamophobia (OK I am not sure if there is a term like that; if there isn't, there soon will be). I knew the Hindus were like that and I always rebelled against it; now here in the Netherlands, those Islamophobic Hindus from India look like angels. And I am amazed, at the jokes highly qualified and intelligent people here make about Muslims and jihad, at their reaction when someone says he is from Pakistan (I wonder how they would react if someone said he is from Afghanistan), at their general perception of Muslims.

I am generalizing, of course; forgive me. But it is there, that seed of Islamophobia, more than a seed really. Much more. (OK not quite a tree yet, but a plant maybe?:p)

And it frightens me, this intolerance that I see here (and which has manifested in US's attack on Iraq - oh yes, do you think the US would have attacked them if there were white and christian? ok maybe, for the oil). I don't see these people having to interact with a lot of Muslims; there just ain't as many Muslims here as say in India. And that definitely is the problem; and a problem the media and the governments are exacerbating by raving about jihad all the time.

I don't see an Islamic jihad. I rather see the beginnings of a anti-Islamic jihad, led mostly and fiercely by the west.