Suicide attacks, ISIS, the PKK and the US

Yesterday in Iraq, according to initial reports, more than 50 people were killed and 65 wounded in a DAEŞ attack with 5 suicide bombers on a Shiite mosque. Only a few days earlier, more than 160 people had died in a suicide attack in Baghdad. In the attacks staged a short while ago in Istanbul, at the beginning of Ramadan again in Istanbul, and before that in Bursa and Ankara, dozens of people lost their lives.

Suicide bombing has increasingly become one of the ordinary events of the Islamic world. Who carries out these suicide acts ceases to matter very much at a certain point. Moreover, this type of act spreading in the Islamic world knows no borders, and is repeated as if cloned in Europe and the US too. Whether the act is carried out by DAEŞ, the PKK or Shiite organizations has little meaning left; after a point, it is the same form of action and the same result: human life becoming extremely cheap.

Each time

the repeated acts are, as it were, in a race among themselves to achieve the highest death toll in a single strike.

Another result, of course, is the images of blood, body parts and savagery that splash onto the Muslim world each time.

Even the parallels, who once tried to sell their own inferiority complexes to Westerners as

"moderate Islam,"

are no longer as comfortable marketing that Islam as before. With every attack they are forced to make Islam much cheaper, to give the maximum discount on its price.

Not even a buyer shows up for their sales at a bargain price.

To such a degree that, as they try to market their own Islam by distinguishing it from this savagery, the deep scorn of their interlocutors is giving way more and more to expressions that crudely show they do not believe it. Because in the West at present a version of Islam that is much more in demand than theirs is, to a large extent, packaged in this wrapping of violence, terror and savagery.

DAEŞ savagery is an extremely successful material for the Islamophobic campaign that has been set in motion in the West.

A terrific material that works to keep the Muslim world constantly on the defensive. The ones they kill are Muslims, and those who are forced to defend themselves because of it are Muslims too. In return, those who come to save Muslims from this plague and kill hundreds of times more Muslims than DAEŞ killed are Westerners too.

Meanwhile, it occurs to no one to ask when DAEŞ terror in particular, and suicide acts and this cycle of violence in this region in general, began.

Let us offer a simple reminder to those who have asked.

Before the US occupied Iraq, the rate of suicide attacks in Iraq was zero.

There was no such form of action in Iraq. After the US occupied Iraq, it has carried out nearly 1,900 suicide attacks on Iraqi soil alone. That is, considering that each suicide act is carried out by at least one attacker, the number of suicide attackers who died in these acts alone is more than 1,900 people.

The pretext the US put forward for coming to Iraq was bringing democracy to Iraq and ending the terror nurtured there. Yet before it occupied Iraq, the existence of terror in Iraq was merely a claim, but with the US occupation terror became a reality in Iraq.

According to the report that the British Labour Party had Chilcot prepare, the occupation of Iraq was carried out on entirely fabricated grounds and Britain was made a tool of this occupation. The result of this occupation is the horrific death of more than a million Iraqis and, along the way, the peace and stability of this region, which can no longer be mended.

The result of the design America makes with decisions it takes so easily from across the ocean about the fate of this region is only blood and gore.

Based on this report, it is inevitable that the US and its allies who occupied Iraq be seen as primarily guilty for the blood that is flowing and has flowed. Granted, the report only declares what was already known. But this declaration is also important for making the following fact plainly visible: the US and Western countries are the cause and creator of all this image of savagery that has emerged today about Muslims.

As the bearers of this responsibility, they are the sole reason for the emergence of DAEŞ too.

They created this monster themselves. Whether by directly forming, directing and managing it to carry out some dark plans, or by preparing the ground for the spawning of terrorist organizations like DAEŞ within the inhuman conditions of occupation they imposed...

The meddling the US displays today in the name of fighting the DAEŞ terrorist organization does not remove the US's responsibility in the formation of the DAEŞ terrorist organization.

Even if it was not formed deliberately, the US owes a very heavy debt to humanity solely because of its clear contribution to the formation of the DAEŞ terrorist organization and this unstable environment in Iraq. It can begin to repay this debt somewhat by conducting its policies in Iraq, Syria and other Middle Eastern countries with respect for, and by listening to, the peoples of these countries.

It must see that its fight against DAEŞ terror in cooperation with other terrorist organizations like the PKK-PYD can have no role other than prolonging the violence over longer terms. The US must look at its interventions that have produced endless massacres for the people of the region, draw a lesson, and take care not to fall into these mistakes again. The policies it implements by going its own stubborn way, hiding them even from regional actors and even from Turkey, which it calls an ally, are of a kind that will produce far more violence.

In fact, it must act without ever forgetting its responsibility for every drop of blood shed because of this culture of violence the US sowed in Iraq through occupation.

If it forgets, every responsible person must remind it, and must explain that terror cannot be fought with this mindset.