UnmaskingNarratives 🇨🇦☮️

Imagine this headline: “Jihadist’s crimes in the Middle East make the killing of Muslims in the west all but inevitable.” The subtext is wanting to justify harm against Muslims in the west while deflecting responsibility onto Jihadists in a foreign land. Now reverse it, and you have Owen Jones justifying terrorist attacks & pogroms in the west and deflecting responsibility onto Israel. The most dangerous and woefully ignorant person on earth is one who believes they can rationalize fundamentalism. They believe jihadists need a humanitarian motivation, because they do not understand jihad. Ultimately, Jone’s logic can be easily dismissed as a counterfactual fallacy: “If we leave terrorists alone, we won’t experience terrorism.” When the reality is that if we leave terrorists alone, we (both in the west and the Middle East) will experience more terrorism. Understanding this requires understanding the psychology and philosophy of jihadists. But according to Jones, who has no familiarity, ties, experience, or connection to the Middle East: Leave Al Qaeda alone Leave ISIS alone Leave Hamas alone Leave Hezbollah alone Leave Houthis alone Then we will definitely all be fine.