The Islamic State Already Exists in America, so Why Do They Hate Us?

One child is covered in blood in Ghouta, Damascus, and another knows nothing but being displaced with his parents since the fall of the dictator in Libya. A third doesn’t hear anything except the explosions and arguments about the conflict between Sunni and Shia in Iraq. This is our Arab world. What more can be expected from the Obama administration in his last year? Should we risk his intervention again to save us from our madness?

What benefits will the American Democrats and Republicans get from stopping the massacres and breakdown in Syria? Is there really a serious will to end the Islamic State’s horrors? The conspiracy theories are repeated this time by the Americans themselves who are engaged in the type of presidential race that previously produced the likes of George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney; candidates who insist on reminding Americans that they saw Muslims in the United States dancing with joy at the bombing of the twin towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

If that doesn’t incite a new Islamic State group in America or divide its communities, it will at least offer a free path toward methods for countering terrorism first and calling it Islamic terrorism. Is that not a concession to the Syrian regime whose thirst hasn’t been quenched from the blood of 300,000 Syrians? Truly, it is the same. It is another concession which legitimizes those who advocate for policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who avoided acknowledging raids conducted by his military in Syria. As a result, the regime in Damascus is committed to pretending that it is facing a simultaneous battle with terrorism and Israel, while at the same time coordinating with its Russian ally to avoid a clash with Russia and its interests in Syria. Therefore, it is a simple equation: the Syrian regime’s alliance with Tehran and Moscow has intersecting interests with Israel’s alliance with the United States, which is insisting on removing Bashar Assad from power; Assad who is betting that Obama will leave office before he does. The Islamic State group is not fighting the Americans or the Israelis. In reality most of its victims are like the Syrian regime’s victims, Arab and Muslims.

Due to the fact that Syria probably will not be like it was, it is necessary to count the parties conspiring against it and its people, not against the regime, or the warring parties and their various alliances on the ground in Syria. Russians, Americans, Israelis and Iranians each have their own alliance with regard to Syria. Iraqis and Chechnya, radical Islamists, the Islamic State group, Baathists, Alawites, Sunnis, secularists, Arabs and Kurds are in similar positions. What, therefore, is the fate of the region when those who represent the Islamic State group in America are picking at the wounds of Sept. 11 in order to antagonize Muslims? What of those in the Middle East who are fighting the world using our blood, people whom only lunatics believe, and who are considered cave men even if they graduated from the most prestigious universities in the West? The suicidal plan for an Islamic caliphate in the Middle East is much more dangerous than a nuclear bomb.

Until now, has the fear over a potential chemical weapons strike from the Islamic State group been exaggerated? Was it really so impossible to smuggle chemical weapons for the Islamic State group before Obama and Netanyahu were content with destroying Syria’s arsenal under the sponsorship of Russia?

As a result of the state of panic and alert in Europe and the West, the Syrian regime became the lowest of their priorities. Instead, there is the zeal of an angry Vladimir Putin who is reacting badly to the downing of a Russian aircraft by changing the priority of the Syrian conflict into one of confrontation with Turkish President Erdogan.

Putin is reinvigorating Assad’s desire for revenge against the sultan, the Turkish president, who is among the front row of national leaders repelling Western attempts to open a crack in the wall that insulates Syria by prioritizing a war against the Islamic State group. What the Russians are proclaiming is reminiscent of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani's son’s denouncement of Iraqi oil during the decade of Saddam Hussein’s regime. The Russian army dares to accuse the family of the sultan with financing the Islamic State group through oil smuggling. Erdogan’s plan to create a safe zone inside of northern Syria has been rescinded. Between the Islamic State group in the West, and the Islamic State group among us, and the Russian-Turkish conflict which resulted in the downing of a Russian jet, which will happen again, there are events that will prevent peace in Syria for a long time.

Russia will protect the executioner’s regime in Damascus and will be angered if the Arabs do not believe that Russia is sincerely seeking peace for Syrians. Putin will encourage the emergence of more Islamic State group loyalists, while at the same time the U.S. compares Syrian refugees who are fleeing the tragedy in Syria to dogs, saying there is no need to resettle them. Is it therefore not reasonable to ask why they hate us?