Mohammed Hijab – When the RAF and Churchill Engaged in Terrorism

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The speaker discusses the issue of Winston Churchill's operation in Hamburg, Germany, which destroyed around 40,000 civilians and left behind behind a crass, util proud attitude. The speaker suggests that this is a similar type of evil behavior that is rooted in the social liberal philosophy of the United States, which is used to target civilians for political gain. The speaker warns that this type of evil behavior is not terrorism, and that Western politicians' util weakness will lead to a stronger political message.

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			Salam Alaikum, Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh How are you guys doing? I'm here in Hamburg, the second
most populated city in Germany, and a state in its own right here in Germany. Now, you might have
seen the fate to me and Tony, were talking on piers Morgan's show. And we actually brought up the
issue of Winston Churchill on the bombing of Dresden and Hamburg. And this city was bombed in World
War Two, by the RAF under the command of Winston Churchill. And the instruction was, or the idea was
to try and create a demoralizing effect by killing the civilian population. And this very suitable
saw the destruction of about 40,000 civilians in World War Two. And this keyflower states and this
		
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			is something which I'm going to send out, put a link in the description box for more information, I
choose a BBC link that you can look at, for your convenience, that this is not to be compared with
what happened in Coventry in London, in World War Two. But in fact, this has to be compared with
what happened in Nagasaki, you may know, the Americans dropped a bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and
it was one of the most detrimental things that's ever happened in all of world history in terms of
killing off civilian people, and leaving damage behind the same thing happened here. And of course,
we don't speak about that, as much as we should do, because the events of the Holocaust here in this
		
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			country, it eclipsed all other catastrophes of a civilian nature that happened in Europe. But the
point to be noted here is the following. That the reason why many Western politicians felt it Okay,
or still do feel it okay to either aid or to actually perpetrate these kinds of things where the
targeting of civilians is something which is an option is because of a crass, utilitarian judgment.
It is a crass, utilitarian judgment. Utilitarianism is an ideology, which postulates that it's the
greatest good for the greatest number of people. So you'll find some kind of argument that I could
which would postulate the following go. And so if we didn't do this, then if we didn't do this, we
		
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			wouldn't win the war. So killing the civilians is a necessary thing to do. Now, this is very
interesting, because the social liberal critique of Islam and its peoples has usually been that
Islam inspires a kind of terrorism or killing of civilians for political gain. But this is not
terrorism, according to that definition. What it what would it be, if not killing the civilians in
Hamburg 40,000 of them in the city? So develop that this?
		
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			What would it be? So the point is that those, say, for example, Islamist Muslims, whatever you guys
want to call it, because of course, these are all social constructs. And these individuals that do
that actually employ very similar kinds of consequences reasoning, if you read the fetters of Osama
bin Laden, he says they're killing our civilians, therefore, we have to kill their civilians,
there's a kind of utilitarian or consequentialist reasoning. So there's more by way of
consequentialist reasoning that unites military dictators, and political actors who decide to target
civilians than there is by way of religion. But this is something which people do not comprehend or
		
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			understand. And it's time it's high time that we change the narratives on these issues. But knowing
the history of what happened in World War Two, between European countries, and between the Europeans
and the rest of the world, will give us a stronger idea of what to expect from Western politicians.
What we expect from Western musicians is that they will perpetrate these crimes and they will do so
because they are employing a kind of utilitarian judgment to do with the politics of that particular
nation.