UN has a lot to answer for in letting refugee, terror crisis brew FRED HENRY, LABRADOR

WE should not be surprised that we are currently suffering so much from the refugee and Islamic terrorism crisis around the world.

It’s not like it started overnight, not as if some Muslims woke up one morning and told themselves they were going to start hating Christians.

You have to go way back in time, when the Christians were fighting those they liked to call “the infidels”.

It is now clear if you look at countries like Yemen and Syria that the world totally failed and betrayed Muslim countries.

There are various aspects to look at.

There is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Then there is Osama bin Laden.

How did this guy get to become the monster that he did? From what I have heard and read, it started when the Russians were occupying Afghanistan in the ’80s.

Then there is now. The same terrorism crisis throughout the world. When you look at Yemen, there is the issue of Saudi Arabia using British and American weaponry to wipe out Yemenite civilians.

ISIS started out after the 2003 Iraq war. And there’s also the accidental civilian deaths in Syria by Western forces in their attempts to destroy extremists.

However, as SBS News has been reporting for years, this doesn’t compare with civilian deaths at the hands of ISIS and other terrorist groups, most notably the Russian and Syrian regimes who are only too happy to kill innocent people, then have the arrogance to deny it.

If it wasn’t for those regimes, we wouldn’t have such a refugee influx towards Western countries and such a rise in global terrorist activities.

We reap what we sowed and the United Nations has a lot to answer for due to its inaction against those sick regimes who manipulate them.