COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
Sadiq Khan is arguing over a "straw man."
Trump is not anti-Muslim.
He's only reflecting public fears about large-scale Muslim
migration.
These fears, which are real, are the children of the
American government's policies for the last fifteen years and the truck-fulls
of Islamophobic columns and editorials and bent news reports in the
establishment press over that same period.
The US unilaterally decided to rearrange a major portion of
the world to its liking, in the process killing a couple of million people,
destroying several societies, and creating millions of refugees.
No politician of note and no newspaper or broadcaster is on
record having opposed this horror.
Indeed, the press has regularly supported the monstrous
effort and reinforced anti-Muslim fears with endless stories of terror.
Yes, there has been some terror, but it is insignificant
compared to the mass murder and destruction conducted by America and its
allies.
What we call "international terror" and the new
record floods of refugees are both the direct product of American policy, which
has included the destruction of Iraq, the destruction of Libya, a five-year
effort to destroy Syria, Saudi Arabia's atrocities in Yemen, tolerance for
Israel's horrors in Gaza, and an organized system of extrajudicial killing.
The press has only supported policy every step of the way,
and in the process has generated waves of Islamophobic feelings.
Trump is the only leader talking about the root cause, the
Neocon Wars, and bringing them to an end.
What he is saying is that in the interim, his country needs
to be cautious about the waves of Muslim migration. He is not saying, and never
has, said that in future there should be no Muslim migration or that all
Muslims are undesirable.
