WESTERN JUSTIFICATIONS

If westerners expect peaceful Muslims to incidentally apologize for incidental Muslim terrorist attacks, peaceful westerners may systematically apologize for systematic western violent oppression and economic exploitation of other parts in the world.

However, if we not only want westerners to apologize for western crime and exploitation elsewhere but actually contribute to the reduction of that crime and exploitation, we may start seeing through the misleading terminology common in the West that conceals and morally justifies such crime and exploitation.

Terms such as ‘weak states’, ‘imperfect markets’, ‘failing institutions’, ‘marginal costs’, ‘corruption’, ‘economic growth’, ‘liberation’, ‘free press’, ‘free elections’, and ‘freedom of speech’, ‘rogue states’, ‘terrorist organizations’ and ‘development banks’ conceal western ethnocentrism and self-interest if you don’t see it and reveal western ethnocentrism and self-interest if you see it.