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Cameron remarks: unwitting PR campaign for Takfiri terrorism or calculated Islamophobic crusade?

UK Prime Minister David Cameron (AFP photo)

By Jane Calvary, Investigative Journalist

 

“I’ve talked a lot about one nation – about Britain being a country where everyone can get on – whatever their background and wherever they’re from. British Muslims embody that spirit. They prove that this can be a country where success is determined not by your colour, community or creed but a place where you can go as far as your talents will take you.” These are parts of David Cameron's Ramadan message sending best wishes to the British Muslim communities.

Only a day was needed to reveal Cameron's true colors and his misguided emphasis on the Muslim community. On 18 June British Muslims woke up to the Daily Mail stark interpretation of David Cameron's speech in a global security summit in Slovakia, tarring the entire Muslim community in one swoop. The Daily Mail’s selected the title: “UK Muslims helping jihadists, says Cameron” adding Cameron claimed that Muslims should share the blame for the existence and survival of ISIL and its extremist ideology.

Although Cameron is well known for utmost hypocrisy, his new dangerous generalization shocked many in society. British Muslims are asking that how could the man in charge of a political system which has made every effort to keep Takfiri fundamentalism alive, blame Muslims for not doing enough to confront it? It is particularly startling that he inflicted such accusations against Muslims who are primary victims of Takfiri terrorism themselves. Almost four years from the creation of ISIL it now an undeniable fact that this shadowy terror group could not survive without Britain’s direct and indirect support.

The British government is officially providing training and other military requirements for the so-called Free Syrian Army, Al-Nusra and Al-Sham terrorists in Jordan and Turkey. While it claims, it is fighting against ISIL the Tory government is taking a friendly approach towards comparable organizations with exactly the same ideology and manifestos. How could this irony be explained?

British establishment can be blamed for creation and survival of ISIL and other Takfiri terrorist groups. Its military adventurism has provided a fertile ground for Takfiri terrorism across the Middle East.

Britain illegally occupied Iraq leaving an unstable, broken back and divided country behind. It contemplated the so-called Responsibility to Protect (R2P) policy in Lybia and remodeled it in Syria shortly after.  It is now supporting Saudi aggression against Yemen. In Saudi aggression, the world is witnessing the richest country in the Arab world leading military alliance against the poorest country. The British government’s complicity in war against Yemen is already made clear by the foreign secretary Philip Hammond admitting that British government is providing logistical and intelligence support (and everything short of directly engaging in military action) for Saudi army.

Libya, Northern Syria, and North of Iraq are now turned into ISIL potential strongholds and the British-backed war in Yemen is acting as a catalyst for expansion of Al-Qaeda and other Takfiri militant group’s reach in Arabian peninsula all thanks to British foreign policies.

Cameron claims that his government is in all out war against ISIL and its fanatic views. But his so-called war against ISIL has a rather strange set of alliances. One of these most unusual alliances is an alliance between the House of Saud and the British establishment.

The Saudi regime is a backward political system which is evidently involved in lots of terrorist activities around the world. Both British and American high-ranking security officials acknowledge that Saudis have played on both sides of the so-called war on terror. They want weakened central governments in Syria and Iraq. Saudis are also famous for their sectarian policies in all most all of the Middle Eastern countries and beyond. ISIL is practically acting in correlation with the Saudi regional policies. Now Britain has formed an alliance with Saudi regime to defeat ISIL.  

All of Saudi royal family members have strong ties with the primary religion in Saudi Arabia, Wahabism and so has ISIL. ISIL is manipulating and overstating Wahabi ideology to justify the terrorist agendas.  Both Saudi officials and ISIL terrorists regard Wahabism as the only true interpretation of Islam believing that anyone who does not practice this version of Islam are heretics.

Historically Britain has founded and supported Wahabism since the 18th century. Wahabis could not grow domination in Saudi Arabia without the direct support of the United Kingdom. And ISIL is now the rotten fruit of such ideology. Even today there is a widespread belief in the Islamic world that Britain is still backing Wahhabi fanatic ideologies to foment hatred and tension within the Islamic world.

It is now an undeniable fact that many Saudi citizens and even members of the Saudi royal family are using charities and private companies as a front to fund extremist Wahabi organizations across the middle east and even inside the British mainland. Funding is also being channeled to establish Wahabi schools and mosques inside Britain, in a bid to spread dogmatic and dangerous Wahabi ideologies among Muslim youth encouraging to join ISIL in Syria or committing terrorist activities inside Britain.

Cameron blames British Muslim families of not doing enough to prevent hundreds of young people from joining ISIL, but there is not a single evidence suggesting that his government is trying to block Saudi financial support for Wahabi schools and mosques.

The finger wagging prime minister’s recent collective rhetoric is nothing but concealing the truth about Britain’s so-called war on terror. It will do no good for Britain and British citizens. It will only marginalize Muslim community even further, fueling the flames of Islamophobia.  

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