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Anyone who thinks Westerners are flocking to Isil because of the Iraq war is a fantasist
Isil and its jihadist ideology uniquely exploit underlying conflicts and offer the conspiracy theory solution: none of this is your fault.
When Islamist radicals commit some heinous act, they very often try to justify this as a legitimate response to the West’s foreign policy in the Muslim world.
The West is the aggressor in “Muslim lands”, oppressing Muslims, so an equally violent response is therefore just and…