Comments on: Why They Hate Us (II): How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years?

By: Khalid Shaheed

Khalid Shaheed — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:00:38 +0000

Thank you for writing this article. I have been having an ongoing discussion with someone whom I think highly of about this very subject. My soul is at ease now, this is exactly what I have been saying. Truth has got to be acknowledged ………. BY ALL, including non-Muslims and Muslims world-wide.

By: shakib

shakib — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:02:12 +0000

The rights discourse is problematic when you consider that rights somehow follow Maslows theory of hierarchy: individual, economic and cultural. in that order. A little bit of history will go like this– the magna-carta and habeus corpus champions basic human rights; to have the right to live. the french revolution creates the premise for welfare societies based on social justice and post-modernism gives notions of freedom of expression, identities based on sexuality, linguistic and ethnic rights etc.

In this equation citizenship is the common denominator of any individual living within a boundary of nation-state, where the state or its international underwriters are guarantors of its protection as seen fit in the framework of a rights hierarchy. in that discourse many muslim majority countries became oppressors of their own minorities, muslim and non-muslim alike. It would be difficult to find a muslim country that does not discriminate their citizens at some level of rights discourse.

rights are rights, just as lives are lives. but societies have always resisted a way to regulate a universal right. rights discourse become bases for intervention, domination, resistence and re-interpretation. rationalism says that colonialists became liberators because it was more profitable to share the proceeds by proxy than oppression. neo-liberalism can thrive after post-colonialism because oppression/loss of the individual can be compensated or traded off monetarily. our laws ensure that equivalency of loss is measured based on the hierarchy of rights so that human capital can be requited by economic/cultural capital. humans become a measurement of his or her compensative value. how much are you going to settle for your worth, becomes the question when it comes to your right.

By: Omar E

Omar E — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:30:15 +0000

This is a wonderful article. I think it presents some great points, BUT I think we should keep in mind given these estimates, the US may not be the common denominator when discussing Islamic genocide/ murder. We must remember China, Russia and Europe have had their share in this “business”.

China has anywhere in between 20-300 million Muslims living within their boarders (they will not give us a proper estimate for “national security reasons”.)

Given most these Muslims live in northwest China, an area notorious for Chinese governmental oppression, it may well be within reason to consider this zone a Muslim slaughter house (for lack of a better term) incomparable to anywhere else in the world, both directly and indirectly.

And Allah (swt) knows best.

Regards