Double Standards of West

News:

How the West Marshaled a Stunning Show of Unity Against Russia

"In a few frantic days, the West threw out the playbook it used for decades against the Kremlin and isolated Russia with unparalleled sanctions and penalties.” (NY Times)

Comment:

On 24th February, Russian tanks and troops poured around the Ukrainian border. Airports and military headquarters were attacked, then tanks and troops rolled in from Russia and Russia annexed Crimea and its ally Belarus. Major cities have been shelled, neighbourhoods razed to the ground and millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes.

As a result, “NATO had swiftly mobilized its rapid response force, a kind of military SWAT team, for the first time in history to deter an enemy. It was one in an avalanche of precedent-shattering moves, unfolding in ministries and boardrooms from Washington to London and Brussels to Berlin. The shock of Russia’s invasion led Germany to discard six decades of military-averse policy rooted in its own wartime experience. Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the Germans would ship Ukraine 1,000 shoulder-launched antitank rockets, 500 surface-to-air Stinger missiles and 2,700 Soviet-era shoulder-fired missiles as well as embark on a mammoth, $110 billion rearming program at home. It led the once-divided European Union to unite behind choking sanctions that will ban Russia’s central bank, which holds Mr. Putin’s war chest, from selling any assets to European banks. Brussels, long derided as an economic giant but a foreign-policy dwarf, pledged to spend $500 million on defensive weapons for Ukraine. Overnight, oil giants like BP, Shell and Exxon walked away from gargantuan investments in Russia. Technology companies like Apple halted sales in Russia, while Google pulled Russian media off their networks. Sports bodies like FIFA and the International Olympic Committee barred Russians from competing.” (NY Times)

The so-called ‘sophisticated nation’ (i.e., Europe) showed stunning show of unity against Russian invasion and aggression but this is not the same for everyone. CBS News, Charlie D'Agata, a [respected] correspondent said, as he described the Ukrainian refugee crisis, “but this isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iran and Afghanistan.” Such statements show a hypocrisy of the West when it comes to Muslims’ blood.

We are witnessing the West’s actions against Russian over Ukrainian invasion; on the other hand, the same West that kept criminal silence on the other side of the world where the Zionists are cracking unprecedented oppression on Palestinian Muslims in Palestine when they were firing grenades and bullets on innocent Muslims stopping them from entering Masjid Aqsa. The Jewish entity sets out massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians which are all components of a system which amounts to apartheid under the so-called “international law.” This system is maintained by violations, but in social media, the West and the Western serving Muslim rulers are maintaining pin drop silence while on the other hand you will find almost every event happening in Ukraine is being covered and the whole world is condemning the Russian oppression on Ukraine. The same West was united against the US brutally in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Indian oppression against Muslims in India and other parts of the world. According to the Western standards, Ukrainian people are humans and oppressed people not like Muslim.

Only Khilafah (Caliphate) will end the unprecedented oppression against Muslims around the globe and only under the shade of Khilafah Muslims will defend their honour, wealth and land from oppressive colonialist powers.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Mohammad Adel