Robert Fisk: Human Rights, the West and the Middle East

A hundred years of Western interference in the Middle East has left the region so cracked with fault lines and artificial frontiers and heavy with injustices that we are in no position to lecture the Islamic world on human rights and values. Forget the Amalekites and the Persians and Martin Luther and the Caliph Abu Bakr. Just look at ourselves in the mirror and we will see the most frightening text of all.

Read "We have long ago lost our moral compass, so how can we lecture the Islamic world? Years of Western interference in the Middle East has left the region heavy with injustices" by Robert Fisk, The Independent. You can read the whole article on Global Echo