Western foreign policy responsible for bombs

Editor,

While acts of terrorism have been carried out by Muslims living in America and the UK, rarely is it asked: What was the reason behind these acts?

While I am not here to justify these un-Islamic acts, it must be stated that these disillusioned youths are responding to the evil foreign policies of the infidels of Europe and America toward Muslim countries.

When they come home from school and see the images on the TV of Muslim women being raped and Muslim men being murdered, they feel that the only solution is to plant bombs in places like New York or London. Although the infidel of America and Europe will never admit it, it is his evil foreign policy, which is based on lies, that causes some Muslim youths to resort to acts of terrorism.

In life people try to say that God told them to do something in order to justify their actions. For example, there are some Muslims in Africa who carry out female genital mutilation and say that Islam justifies this act. However, the truth is that the Prophet Muhammad had four daughters and he never tampered with any of their private parts. Similarly, if some Muslim youths plant a bomb in a city which kills innocent civilians, they are also seeking to justify an act which has no religious justification.

Unfortunately, the media seem more interested in looking for a scapegoat when it comes to reporting on these events. The media play up some “radical sheikh” as being the cause for the acts of terrorism instead of the evil foreign policy of the infidels in America and Europe. The truth is that when you invade a Muslim country based on lies about weapons of mass destruction, that will do more to contribute to acts of terrorism than any so-called radical sheikh.

Planting bombs on airplanes or subways will not solve anything. My advice to any Muslim who is fed up with life in the land of the infidels is to get an education and then move to one of the Muslim countries.

And the last word I would like to leave with the non-Muslim is to remember that it is the evil foreign policy of your leaders which is causing acts of terrorism to be carried out against you by misguided Muslim youths.

Muhajir Romero
UNM student