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Why are you questioning NATO's motives?
Why didn't you say a word when muslim pirates off the somali coast attack every ship that passes by? Is it wrong for NATO to protect world shipping?
Why didn't you say a word when NATO forces went to protect Bosnian Muslims against Christian Serbs? You are just trying to stir the shit pot aren't you?

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jan, good one.

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It's incredible, some people just defend the indefensible. They are so in self denial they will blindly support anything and everything that's perceived to be connected to their religion. Any incident however small is taken as a threat to their religion and they will go all wild and paranoid. Even the presence of NATO in any area will be perceived as a threat regardless if NATO is doing humanitarian work.
Their religion like all others is a great religion but it's the followers I take issue.

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There are many ongoing conflicts in Muslim-majority lands. By the definition of most practicing Muslims, those Muslims that engage in killing, suicide bombings and terrorism are not real Muslims. They have merely hijacked the name of Islam. So if NATO should go in to those Muslim-majority lands and flush out the false Muslims, NATO is doing Islam a good service. By flushing out those false Muslims that give Islam a bad name, NATO is doing the work that true Muslims should be doing, but failed to do so. Here are a few places NATO should go in:

1.The War in Somalia

This is an ongoing armed conflict involving largely Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces versus the Somali Islamist umbrella group, the Islamic Court Union (ICU), and other affiliated militias for control of the country. The war officially began shortly before July 20, 2006 when Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia to prop up the TFG in Baidoa. Ethiopia entered hostilities because it faced a direct threat to its own borders.
UN also stated that many Arab nations including Libya and Egypt were also supporting the ICU via Eritrea. Somalia is a Muslim majority country under siege from Islamic terrorist groups. OIC has failed to solve this internal Islamic civil war problem. NATO should go in and wipe out this Islamic insurgency against the legitimate Islamic government of Somali.

2.Somali Piracy

An offshoot of the above war in Somali is the numerous pirate attacks on cargo laden ships for huge ransoms. Due to the failure of the OIC and rich Arab nations to control their wayward brethren, NATO should step in and exterminate this cancerous blot on the face of Islam.

3. The War in Darfur

This is another Islamic civil war conflict now happening in the Darfur region of western Sudan. One side of the armed conflict is composed mainly of the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited mostly from the Arab Abbala tribes of the northern Rizeigat, camel-herding nomads. The other side comprises a variety of rebel groups, notably the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army and the Justice and Equality Movement, recruited primarily from the land-tilling non-Arab Fur, Zaghawa, and Masalit ethnic groups. The Sudanese government has provided money and assistance to the militia and has participated in joint attacks targeting the tribes from which the rebels draw support. OIC and Muslims the world over stand by idly while Arab Muslims are raping and killing tribal Muslims in Darfur. It is sad to note that OIC is not taking this problem seriously as it involves some precious Arab descendants of the prophet; they would just twiddle their thumbs, roll their eyes and buat tak tau. If international Muslims have no political will to solve a conflict involving their own, they should welcome NATO intervention to stop this conflict.

4.The Fatah-Hamas conflict

This is also referred to as the Palestinian Civil War and the Conflict of Brothers began in 2006 and has continued, in one form or another, into 2008. The tensions between Hamas and Fatah began to rise in 2005 after the death of longtime PLO leader Yasser Arafat who died on November 11, 2004 and intensified after Hamas won the elections of 2006.

The conflict is between the two main Palestinian parties, Fatah and Hamas. The majority of the fighting is occurring in the Gaza Strip where fighting began after Hamas' legislative victories. Hamas remains in control of the Gaza Strip. It is called Wakseh among Palestinians, meaning humiliation, ruin, and collapse as a result of self-inflicted damage.

Again another civil war among Muslims. For all their huffing and puffing, OIC is just too weak to do anything to ameliorate the situation. Maybe for this NATO should keep away and let these two Palestinian groups fight each other.

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5. The Ogaden Conflict.

This began after the rebel Muslim Ogaden National Liberation Front in Ethiopia killed 74 people in an attack on a Chinese-run oil exploration field in April 2007. This provoked the Ethiopian Army’s war against the ONLF. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), various human rights abuses were committed by the Ethiopian Military and ONLF rebels. Hundreds of civilians were killed and tens of thousands were displaced in 2007 alone, though exact figures are unknown because the area is remote and Ethiopian officials have restricted access for humanitarian groups and journalists. Several human rights organizations compared the situation in Ogaden to the plight of civilians in the Darfur War in Sudan. NATO should come into this area and enforce law and order. You can forget that OIC would be interested in this conflict as it is an Islamic insurgency against the Christian majority government of Ethiopia.


6. The South Thailand insurgency.

The South Thailand insurgency is a separatist campaign by Islamic rebels, which is taking place in the predominantly Malay Pattani region, made up of the three southernmost provinces of Thailand, with violence increasingly spilling over into other provinces. The death toll is 2,579 by mid-September 2007. The death toll surpassed 3,000 in March 2008. So far Thailand has not called for international help as she is confident of resolving the conflict herself. But if she does, NATO could provide the peace keeping role.


7. The 2007 Lebanon Civil War

This is an indirect result of the rivalry between the Sunnis and the Shias. The 2007 Lebanon conflict began when fighting broke out between Fatah al-Islam, an Islamist militant organization, and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) on May 20, 2007 in Nahr al-Bared, an UNRWA Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli. The south was controlled by the Shia Hezbollah. Not to be outdone, the Sunni Fatah al-Islam waged a military war against the Lebanese Armed Forces to take over the Lebanese government. The Saudis covertly funded the Sunni Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon as a counterweight to the Shia Hezbollah. Wherever you see the Sunnis and Shias living in a same country, you can expect trouble to erupt anytime. If NATO doesn’t step in to control the situation, you can expect bloodletting between Muslims.

8. Sunni-Shia conflict in Iraq

Until the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the Shia never governed a modern Arab state. They were in control in Persian Iran, but the Sunnis led most Arab states in the Middle East. The change in Iraq was a shock. Baghdad quickly emerged as a center of Arab Shiite power. The backlash among Sunni Arabs in Iraq quickly turned violent. The Sunni insurgency first targeted American troops, but soon, with the involvement of al-Qaida in Iraq, it attacked the Shia as well. The targets: Shiite holy sites; Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad and elsewhere, and ordinary Shiite civilians, thousands of whom have been abducted and murdered. And then a year ago came the bombing of the Askariya Shrine, a mosque directly connected to the story of the Twelfth Shiite Imam, the messianic Hidden Imam. In 2006, the Shia fought back through militia attacks and murder. Shiite-Sunni violence now predominates in Iraq. Since the Muslim world is too helpless to stop and solve this internal conflict, it should allow NATO to come in and stem the flood of senseless killing and violence among Muslim brethren. The Muslim world should hail NATO as the hero that could save Islam from descending into the bottomless pit of anarchy and self destruction.

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