War drums are beating against Iran, but many are asking whether Operation Epic Fury is about security — or distraction from the scandals shaking Western power.

For years, Western audiences have been told that the greatest threats to freedom come from abroad — from hostile states, rival ideologies or distant cultures. Yet some of the most troubling scandals of the past decade have come from within the very institutions that claim to defend those freedoms. As the drums of war sound once again against Iran through “Operation Epic Fury,” the lingering shadow of the Epstein files raises a question many would rather avoid: who truly benefits when global attention shifts from scandal to conflict?

Now that religious extremism has been identified as Zionism, both Christian and Jewish, has it become socially acceptable in the West? For decades we were drip fed insidious lies against Islam and Muslims: that we wanted to implement Shariah Law (although much of the Western legal system is based on principles from Islamic law due to historic influence on commercial law, contract law, and the development of equity during trade) and take away the freedoms enjoyed in the West. Incidentally, women have only been allowed to vote, have property rights, allowed to divorce or inherit in most of the Western world for the past 100 years. Women in Islam have had all those rights since the 7^th Century, 1400 years ago. And before you hit me up with examples of countries around the world that have been colonised for hundreds of years and adopted the dehumanising rhetoric of the west, particularly round women, or of those with puppet government installed by the West, I’m talking about Islamic Law as is written in the Quran, not practiced by puppet governments.

Unlike other Abrahamic faiths, Islam doesn’t hate women. We don’t blame Eve (or Hauwa, May Allah be pleased with her) for corrupting Adam (Peace be upon him). Prophet Suliman (Peace be upon him) wasn’t seduced and led astray by 700 women and concubines as is portrayed in the Bible, he respected women’s autonomy and intelligence, as evidenced in his encounter with the Queen of Sheba, in the Quran. In the Bible Deliah betrays Samson, Bathsheba seduces David and as such priests are encouraged to stay away from women as they are portrayed as temptresses and blamed for the downfall of men. Monasticism doesn’t exist in Islam because Islam is a religion of balance. One of my favourite hadiths of the Prophet Muhammad, May Allah’s Peace and Mercy be upon him, is: “I was made to love three things from this world: perfume, women (spouses), and prayer (Salah)”. The inclusion of women here indicates the mercy, compassion, and companionship they brought to his life. Women nurtured, supported, comforted, advised and fought alongside the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, and he loved and honoured them in return.

Just this week I saw crude commentary by Jon Stewart, as he mocked the Ayatollah’s murder and the promise of 70 virgins in heaven. Firstly, I think it’s important to mention that 70 virgins are not mentioned in the Quran and the hadith quoting them is considered weak. However, in heaven we are promised “pure companions”, because Islam recognises that humans have desires and require pleasure, and what is Paradise without those things? Back here on Earth, what he didn’t mention, was that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu appear in the Epstein files, the former over 38,000 times! The President of the “Free” World is caught in a “honey-trap” most probably designed by Mossad to compromise world leaders to bend to israeli whims. Westen media is somehow comfortable mocking the murder of a religious leader who, whatever your opinions of him, doesn’t appear anywhere in the Epstein Files which documents crimes of sex trafficking (including girls as young as 11 and 12) national security and finance. I knew after Gaza that liberal values was an oxymoron, and the media class in the west has the structural integrity of a wet paper towel. They are ventriloquist’s dummy with press passes; they’ve got a mouth that moves, but the voice belongs to whoever’s hand is currently up their %$£”. At present that hand is israel’s.

It is not a coincidence that America and israel have decided to bomb Iran at this moment. Operation “Epic Fury” is designed to distract us from the Epstein files, because in truth our “epic fury” should be targeted at the men at the centre of that scandal. In fact, Epstein was trained as a spy by Ehud Barak the former israeli Prime Minister and defence minister for Mossad, and no country in the world, other than israel gains anything from starting a war with Iran. Epic Stupidity would be a more appropriate name.

Earlier this week, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, Mike Huckabee, the American ambassador to israel suggested that it would be ok for israel to colonise vast parts of the Middle East (or Western Asia to use non-colonial language), as according to him it was promised to them in the Bible. The verse is similar to lines that pro-Palestinians have been vilified, fired, attacked, or imprisoned for: “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”. The reference here being the Jordon River and the Mediterranean Sea, which form the borders of historic Palestine. According to the Biblical promise, the land spanning the area between the Euphrates River in Iraq and the Nile River in Egypt, (which includes occupied Palestine, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and parts of Iraq, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia) is promised to the descendants of Abraham, and according to Huckabee, a Zionist and a Baptist Minister, this expansion and land grab is legitimate for the settler colonial state of israel (or occupied Palestine, as it should be called) . As we continue to learn, every accusation is a confession. Much like the idea that has formed the backbone of foreign policy for America and the UK, that the Muslims are coming to invade their lands, it is in fact the Christians and Zionists that have doctrine suggesting land belongs to any one group of people, or that the saviour of one group depends on the damnation of all others. Greater israel has always been the ambition of Zionists and with the help of extremist Christians in American government, it is becoming an increasing reality. The latest war in Iran is just another attempt to destabilise the region. Trumps wants to detract from the Epstein files, Christian Zionists (read American government) want to accelerate Armageddon and Netanyahu wants to colonise and steal land across Western Asia. Welcome to the wild, wild west of 2026.

What will never fail to amaze me is the lengths Western media and culture is willing to go to appear as the hero in every story, and yet if you follow the script carefully, they are always more aligned with the role of the villain. I grew up watching the Lord of The Rings and Aragorn was my hero, a leader who fought in the frontlines and led his people to victory. Even though the cinematography had racist/subliminal undertones (most of the “dark side” or Sauron’s armies were dark skinned and some looked very Arab, a classic example of how culture plays into the rhetoric of politics, but that’s a whole other post!) the  good guys were portrayed as principled and stood ten-toes down on their convictions. When was the last time a leader in the West did that? George W Bush talked a fighting talk from a bunker, Obama used drones, Biden took orders from Netanyahu (classic Sauron and Saruman pairing) and Trump, well he is more likely to be seen with adult film stars than anywhere near a battlefield. Netanyahu, the man who is desperate for all our children to be fighting in forever wars to expand his territories for land that has been promised to his people by a god he doesn’t believe in, has an army made up of brainwashed reservists from all over the world. But guess whose sons aren’t willing to fight for israel? That’s right, Yair Netanyahu, 33, has been living in Miami, Florida, since early 2023 and Avner Netanyahu, 31, is in israel, but not on the frontline, both have taxpayer-funded security details provided by Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security service. Funded by American taxpayers. Compare that to the images we all saw of Yahya Sinwar in 2024, he died fighting for his land. Or even the latest assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei. He wasn’t sitting scared in a bunker, he was in his compound, which he knew would be a target. Or my favourite, Omar Mukhtar, who fought relentlessly against colonial oppressors for 20 years. A Quran teacher by training, he became a legendary military leader who resisted the Italian occupation of Libya from 1911 until his capture and death. What more are we collectively willing to sacrifice? The moral bankruptcy of the West has never been clearer. A war with Iran will push more people into poverty, as many of us are already struggling with the cost-of-living crisis on both sides of the Atlantic. Energy, food and shipping costs will all increase as the war on Iran goes on. As it stands Trump, who appears in the Epstein files over 38,000 times, and his family have made almost $4 billion dollars “off of the presidency,” in just about a year according to NPR. Is it any surprise then that our leaders want to keep us in constant conflict: they line their pockets and we are too distracted trying to survive.