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by Udik 3868 days ago
It's not whether Al-Qaeda or ISIS kill more Muslims or non-Muslims. Is how many Muslims or Arabs are dead as an effect, direct or indirect, of the Western interventions in the area.

US-backed Iraq against Iran war: some 1/2 million - 1 million deaths.

Desert Storm: 20-30 thousand

Operation Desert Fox (1998): 600 (in 4 days)

Iraq War: 30-40 thousand

Sanctions against Iraq: somewhere between 150 and 500 thousand deaths.

And this is Iraq (and Iran) alone.

Then there are: the war in Libya and its ongoing civil war, the civil war in Iraq, in Syria, the bombs on Gaza, Afghanistan... all the direct work or at least helped or backed by the Western countries.