starvation, and forced labor, killing 1.7 million people, about a quarter of the population. The Arabs fought Israel in wars off and on that were nearly thirty years long, and fighting continues regularly between Israel and some Arab states. There has been fighting in the north of India in the Punjab on several occasions. Groups of Catholic Irishmen were blowing up English Protestants with terrorist bombs to keep alive a vendetta for decades in retaliation for past horrific acts of the British against them. There were race riots between the Chinese and Malay in Singapore in 1965, followed by the riots in Malaysia a year later. There was the Falklands Island war of 1982, between Argentina and the British, which was actually decided by Gurkhas, like my driver Lachhiman, who, working for the British, landed on one side of the island and chased the Argentine Army across the island to defeat. Clashes in Africa occur regularly, with hardly any country there able to run itself. There has been massive slaughtering in some African nations, like the racial slaughtering there between the tribes of Hutu and the minority Tutsi, both blacks but of different tribal origins.
He paused to take a quick breath. “There was fighting and extermination of races not far from where we are now, in Bosnia-Herzegovina with the Croats, Muslims, and Serbs fighting among each other, resulting in an accord in 1995, dividing up Yugoslavia into new territories and creating the Serb-controlled Republika Srpska. There is much hatred there among those groups, and it is only the presence of the NATO-led foreign troops that keeps fighting from breaking out again. Then there is the routing out of the Chinese by the Muslims in Indonesia not long ago. The US president Carter turning over Iran to Muslim radicals was the precursor to Muslim terrorism. There was Iraq with its leader Hussein killing Kurds in the north of the country, using anthrax on his own countrymen, funding terrorists in other countries, and then sending his army into Kuwait. US presidents made war to rid Kuwait of occupation, then to rid Iraq of Hussein, and they to continue to war in Afghanistan. There is much warring presently in many parts of the world by Muslims intent on killing innocents that are not Muslims, or that are not of the same Muslim sects, fueled by religious fanatics. In Russia, and other places, Muslims attack non-Muslim Russians often over who is the true God, the Muslim Allah or the Orthodox Christ, although that is just an excuse for killing. There are about eleven million illegal Muslim immigrants in Russia. Muslims now bring their terror in the form of suicide bombers to civilized places and blow themselves up along with innocent victims in many countries. There are also wars over who is to control the country, such as in Syria.”
“Have Muslims always done these things?”
“Well, if you go back much farther than World War II, there is a huge history of religious wars, and not only Muslims. But your question was concerning matters since World War II. Much of the cause of current terrorism stemmed, or at least began, from US President Carter, arguably the worst US president ever, giving up Iran to medieval religious Muslins by withdrawing support of the Shah of Iran years ago, for what he called a poor civil rights record. Muslim fanatics learned they could then control countries, especially those with oil reserves.”
With that, he leaned back and sighed. “I’m sure I have left out many.”
“Are the wars and killing finally over, or continuing?” Tak asked,
“Oh, continuing, to be sure. The US and its allies are at war in Afghanistan. There are outbreaks of minor fighting in many parts of the world. There is war in Syria, Muslim against Muslim. There is killing by Muslims of other Muslims in Iraq. There is fighting in parts of Africa.
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