Islamist Belief That Keeps The Israeli/Palestinian Arab And Other Conflicts From Getting Resolved

    For thousands of years Jews, Christians,Yazidis and others have lived in the middle east. Jews, Yazidis and other religions were around for thousands of years before Islam came into existence. Middle east Christians were there for more than 16 centuries before the rise of Islam. Then came the waves of ethnic cleansing. In the present, Yazidis and middle east Christians are being ethnically cleansed, slaughtered and driven out from the middle east. In the past, at the onset of Islam, the Jewish tribes that lived all over the Arabian peninsula were slaughtered and driven out from what is now Saudi Arabia. As Islam expanded, millions of non Muslims were murdered and ethnically cleansed. In recent history, the Jews were driven from their homes throughout the Arab Muslim majority world and from other Muslim countries and forced to flee to the state of Israel as refugees, where their descendants now form the majority population of Israel. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab Muslim lands was greater than the number of Arab refugees that fled from Israel when Israel became a state. The Jews from the middle east are in the one tiny non Muslim country in the middle east, which many Muslims and others are determined to destroy. There is the Islamist belief that once a land becomes Muslim dominated and controlled (Turkey, a Muslim country, controlled all of the middle east for centuries), it can never be ruled by non Muslims. Islamists believe there is a religious obligation to destroy Israel and return it to Muslim control. Prior to 1967, when Jordan controlled the west bank, and there were no Jewish settlements (Jews that lived in Hebron and other places in the west bank were massacred or driven out prior to Israel becoming a state), there was a determined effort to destroy Israel.
     If settlements were the stumbling block to peace between Israel and Palestinian Arabs, the conflict would have already been resolved. This is not an argument for settlements. Even if the much desired by many two state solution comes into being, the conflict will not end if the theology that supports war and jihad does not end.
      Obama, Bush before him, and other politicians ignore the Islamist belief that helps keep the world in a state of perpetual war. The reason the Israeli and Palestinian Arab conflict (Jew/Muslim), the conflict in Kashmir (Hindu/Muslim), the conflict in the south Philippines (Catholic/Muslim), the conflict in south Thailand(Buddhist/Muslim), and other places cannot be resolved is because of the inability by Islamists to accept rule by non Muslims (even when Muslims are extended all the rights of the non Muslim populations) in lands that were once ruled by Muslims, even if that control was centuries ago. If Jews followed the same Islamic principle, then Jews rightfully could attack Saudi Arabia and other Arab Muslim countries to regain their stolen lands. Buddhists, Hindus, Christians and others would also wage endless war to regain lands that were once controlled by them and that were lost to Muslim conquerors.
        Some Muslims will say that things were better for Jews before Israel came into existence. They think that under Sharia law, where the people from certain non Muslim religions like Judaism and Christianity are allowed to live as second hand citizens, is desirable. But even though Jewish life under Muslim rule was not as brutal at times as was Jewish life under Christian rule, which culinated in genocide, why would any Jew or Christian in their right mind want to live in a permanent state of vulnerability and inferior status?
     Second class status still did not prevent occasional outbursts of violence against vulnerable Jewish and Christian populations. Genocide also occurred under Islamic rule to second class citizens, which Assyrians, Armenians and others experienced.
         If the political leaders of the free world had any guts, they would worry less about political correctness and more about enforcing the principle that religious freedom is a fundamental right of all, and that no religion has the right to dominate, oppress, and persecute the people of other religions and delegate them to second class status or worse.
         In Islam, religions like Yazidis are afforded no protections, and thus the Yazidis have been subjected to genocide and the mass kidnappings of their young women and girls, of whom thousands are being held as slaves that are raped daily. In Iran, the Baha'is are subject to persecution.
         It is important to extend religious tolerance to Muslims. It is sheer stupidity to ignore Islamic intolerance. Wars and conflicts that can be resolved will never be resolved if the western world capitulates to the Islamist demand that all lands that were once under Muslim control and that no longer are, be returned to Muslim rule.