{"id":306008,"date":"2025-10-27T12:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=306008"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:57:53","slug":"they-tell-us-to-fear-muslims-while-the-us-empire-terrorizes-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/10\/they-tell-us-to-fear-muslims-while-the-us-empire-terrorizes-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"They Tell Us to Fear Muslims While the US Empire Terrorizes the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_306012\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/us-empire-military-terror.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306012\" class=\"wp-image-306012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/us-empire-military-terror-1024x536.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/us-empire-military-terror-1024x536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/us-empire-military-terror-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/us-empire-military-terror-768x402.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/us-empire-military-terror.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-306012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Adobe Stock<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>The empire we live under is everything we\u2019re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our own rulers are the problem. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>25 Oct 2025\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;\u00a0The other day I published an essay titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/zionists-push-islamophobia-because\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zionists Push Islamophobia Because It\u2019s Easier Than Getting People To Like Israel<\/a>,\u201d based on the conspicuous overlap between virulent Israel supporters and people who promote hatred of Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn\u2019t know at the time until readers alerted me was that Drop Site News had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropsitenews.com\/p\/leaked-israel-reputation-survey-research-mark-penn-stagwell\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put out an article last month<\/a> about a leaked polling report commissioned by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs which actually found that promoting Islamophobia is the most effective way of combatting the way worldwide public opinion has been turning against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael\u2019s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of \u2018Radical Islam\u2019 and \u2018Jihadism,\u2019 which remain high,\u201d Drop Site\u2019s Ryan Grim writes. \u201cBy highlighting Israeli support for women\u2019s rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to \u2018destroy all Jews and spread Jihadism,\u2019 Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So this is an actual, planned tactic. The shrieking vitriol we\u2019ve been seeing about Islam and Muslims lately is being deliberately and systematically fomented as a calculated strategy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=caitoz&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1972419987618038168&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com.au%2F2025%2F10%2F25%2Fthey-tell-us-to-fear-muslims-while-the-us-empire-terrorizes-the-world%2F&amp;sessionId=d70e4be702cfcc6f7301351465d4073ecfa0b90c&amp;siteScreenName=caitoz&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1972419987618038168\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>One of the moronic things about this latest wave of Islamophobic hysteria is that the US and Israel and their allies are vastly more murderous and tyrannical than the entire Muslim world combined.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/WnJJQ\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sending the world\u2019s largest aircraft carrier<\/a> and a bunch of warships to the waters off Latin America, where they\u2019ve been waging a bogus new war on terror with increasingly frequent attacks on boats carrying alleged \u201cnarco-terrorists\u201d. They\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2025\/10\/23\/us-flies-b-1-bombers-near-venezuela-in-latest-show-of-force-aimed-at-venezuela\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not even disguising<\/a> the fact that this is actually about preparing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/theyre-lying-about-venezuela-while\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regime change interventionism<\/a> in Venezuela, a government that Washington has long sought to topple because of its massive oil reserves and noncompliance with the capitalist world order.<\/p>\n<p>The US power alliance <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2024\/06\/01\/the-us-empire-isnt-a-government-that-runs-nonstop-wars-its-a-nonstop-war-that-runs-a-government\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is constantly doing things like this<\/a>. Waging wars, bombing countries, imposing starvation sanctions, staging coups, backing proxy conflicts, meddling in foreign elections\u200a\u2014\u200aall with the goal of total planetary domination. It\u2019s accepted as the baseline norm and the western press often barely even reports on its abuses (did you know Trump has bombed Somalia <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2025\/10\/22\/us-bombs-somalia-for-83rd-time-this-year\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 80 times<\/a> this year?), but that doesn\u2019t make it any less murderous and tyrannical.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019re being told day in and day out that we all need to be afraid of Muslims, who even with a worldwide population of two billion still manage to be far, far less violent and destructive than the US-centralized power alliance.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=caitoz&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1981806987764547940&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com.au%2F2025%2F10%2F25%2Fthey-tell-us-to-fear-muslims-while-the-us-empire-terrorizes-the-world%2F&amp;sessionId=d70e4be702cfcc6f7301351465d4073ecfa0b90c&amp;siteScreenName=caitoz&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1981806987764547940\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Hell, the most abusive Muslim states are US partners in crime like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, whose genocidal butchery in Yemen was <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/12\/04\/we-are-the-terrorists\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">backed by the US and its allies<\/a> from 2015\u20132022. The UAE is funding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3w1nzpg5dgo\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">genocidal atrocities in Sudan<\/a> right this very moment. The US-centralized empire is <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/08\/14\/you-need-to-understand-that-the-us-is-the-most-tyrannical-regime-on-earth\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the most destructive power structure on earth<\/a>, and the most destructive Muslim states are backed by that same western power structure.<\/p>\n<p>The empire we live under is everything we\u2019re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our own rulers are the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Our rulers want us shaking our fists at Muslims, immigrants, disobedient governments, and members of the other mainstream political party so that we don\u2019t start shaking our fists at them.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Caitlin-Johnstone.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-180156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Caitlin-Johnstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper<\/em>. <em>Contact: <\/em><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/TRANSCEND\/T%20M%20S\/TO%20POST\/A%20BYLINES\/admin@caitlinjohnstone.com\">admin@caitlinjohnstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2025\/10\/25\/they-tell-us-to-fear-muslims-while-the-us-empire-terrorizes-the-world\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; caitlinjohnstone.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 Oct 2025\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The empire we live under is everything we\u2019re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our own rulers are the problem. Hell, the most abusive Muslim states are US partners in crime like Saudi Arabia and the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":306012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[867,3143,2642,541,335,2114,112,2159,701,2137,880,128,981,2200,95,70,557],"class_list":["post-306008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","tag-anglo-america","tag-anti-hegemony","tag-anti-imperialism","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-muslims","tag-pariah-state","tag-pentagon","tag-rogue-states","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-south-america","tag-state-terrorism","tag-sudan","tag-uae","tag-us-empire","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306013,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306008\/revisions\/306013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}