All Muslims are not terrorists

In some ways, we understand why there are anti-Muslim sentiments in the West. Muslims were implicated in the 9/11 attacks and have been involved in some other terrorist attacks around the world. But reactions have been such that now adherents of Islam are being targeted. More than a billion Muslims all over the world are peace-loving people.

I would argue that the disastrous invasion of Iraq—something that I strongly opposed—has destabilised the region and led to the rise of Al-Qaeda and ISIS. The American invasion of Iraq was the incubator for the Islamic State, because they threw millions of Iraqi ex-soldiers and ex-officers out on the streets, leaving them without any hope, dignity, pensions—nothing at all.

Ted Rudow III, MA
Palo Alto, CA, USA