Conflict
For some reason, I have been bombarded lately with facebook posts from pro-Palestinian groups spreading every lie in the book about Israel. I'm not going to get into that mass of garbage, which is as deranged as Q-anon propaganda, but I would like to respond with this.
What follows is a world map showing data from the Council on Foreign Relations. It shows the areas in the world they identify as global conflict hot spots. I have shown on this map in green the countries of the world which are predominantly or totally Islamic.
The areas marked with little red explosions are ones where there is a conflict with a particularly Islamic character- either Muslims waging war on non-Muslims, or Muslim-on-Muslim violence, mostly of the Shiite vs. Sunni variety, as we see tragically in Yemen. The yellow explosions show conflicts without a particularly Muslim character.
Out of 27 identified spots, there are seven current non-Muslim conflicts identified by the Council on Foreign Relations. They are:
Criminal violence in Mexico
Instability in Venezuela
Ethnic war over resources in the Congo
Russian aggression in Ukraine
North Korean threats
Instability in the East China sea due to Chinese territorial claims
Territorial conflicts in the South China Sea, mostly also involving Chinese claims.
In contrast to this situation in the non-Muslim world, there are twenty conflicts in and around the Muslim parts of the globe, which are primarily Muslim in character. In one of these, Myanmar, it could be said that Muslims are the victims; in the other 19, they are the clear aggressors.
The point I want to make is this: The constant attacks on, and demonization of, Israel are not occurrences isolated from the rest of the world. They are part of a clear and consistent attempt by nations of a certain religion to expand their control, by violent means whenever they have to. Anyone trying to comment fairly on the situation in Israel must accept this truth: Israel is but one example of Muslim aggression; there is on this map not a single major example of similar Christian, or Jewish, or Hindu or Sikh aggression anywhere in the world today. It is Muslims who are responsible for the majority of conflicts in the world today, and where they are involved, it is almost inevitable that they are the aggressors. This is as true in Israel as it is in Kashmir, Nigeria, Armenia and other places. Attacking Israel is blaming the victims, and as long as the bullying from the BDS crowd continues, it seems likely to go on forever, in the face of the obvious truth.
Comments
Your trolls will be out in force for this one. One can predict their responses pretty much word-for-word.
The map is slightly wrong -- Albania, Bosnia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and all of Indonesia (not just Kalimantan) are majority-Muslim, while Kenya, the CAR, and Cameroon are not. That doesn't affect your general point, though.
A little inside baseball: I was aware of the problems you identified above. The world map I downloaded had some problems with it- some of the borders between countries had "leaks" in them. That resulted in the extra countries turning green in West Africa, and when I tried to color Azerbaijan green, a large part of Asia turned green along with it. Not really a good enough excuse, but the project I am working on now is in principal photography, and with 10+ hour days at work and an hour each way commuting to Fox studios, I just didn't have the energy to take the map back into Photoshop and try to correct it. As for the more substantial point about other areas that might have been included, I just want to say that I didn't want to be accused of bias in selecting conflicts, so I went with the list from the Council on Foreign Relations- not my favorite group, but I think its list is reasonably objective in this case.