I think I understand what you are saying Abz, but I am not sure. It feels very hypocritical at times, I know. Kind of like, "Let's kill until they begin to kill back! Then we cry foul!"
God knows well the aggressors and He also gives the people the opportunity to know exactly what is happening and to empathize and consider, that way all people are given the opportunity to seek the best and righteous path which works for all.
Consider the complicated nature of the following hadith and see how easy it was to make the man who had bitten the other to think clearly.
It was narrated from 'Imran bin Hussain that:a man bit the hand of another man, who pulled his hand away, and the man's front tooth (or front teeth) fell out. He complained about that to the Messenger of Allah, and the Messenger of Allah said: "What do you want? Do you want me to tell him to put his hand in your mouth, so that you can bite it like a stallion bites? Or, do you want to give him your hand so that he may bite it, then you can pull it away if you want?"
أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ أَبُو الْجَوْزَاءِ، قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا قُرَيْشُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَوْنٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ، عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ، أَنَّ رَجُلاً، عَضَّ يَدَ رَجُلٍ فَانْتَزَعَ يَدَهُ فَسَقَطَتْ ثَنِيَّتُهُ أَوْ قَالَ ثَنَايَاهُ فَاسْتَعْدَى عَلَيْهِ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم *" مَا تَأْمُرُنِي تَأْمُرُنِي أَنْ آمُرَهُ أَنْ يَدَعَ يَدَهُ فِي فِيكَ تَقْضَمُهَا كَمَا يَقْضَمُ الْفَحْلُ إِنْ شِئْتَ فَادْفَعْ إِلَيْهِ يَدَكَ حَتَّى يَقْضَمَهَا ثُمَّ انْتَزِعْهَا إِنْ شِئْتَ " .
http://sunnah.com/urn/1086440
I think the media of most countries deliberately slant things to make it seem as if it is only the 'other people' doing the violence. That is another part of the reason I am here. I am scared, too. But I will not panic with hate and fear and condemn Islam. As others have said, we are sisters and brothers in humanity at the very least. I want to see if what I hear in the media is really the truth or not.
People are required to be just and truthful, if the media deceive you with intent to collaborate in commiting injustice, they will accrue sin on that act unless they repent, what also tends to happen is that real intellectuals who have taken part in false and shallow speech see the futility and lowliness of the scheme and leave the empty trash talking to the fools, some of the wiser ones also accept the truth which they were made to knock against, this can be seen in the way the illusion artists of Pharaoh submitted to God when they saw their own faults, the futility, shallowness and undignified way of those who worked as deceivers for pharaoh, in contrast to God's magnificence.
Another boon is that people who are exposed to the lies and deceptions slowly come to see through the elaborate tricks and mind hacks, and find the need to look for the truth themselves, this has been observed in the gulf wmd lie and lamestream media collaboration, many people also came to realise that their politicians weren't really serving the interests of the people and were actually targeting them as propaganda war subjects. The 9/11 false flag blowback is a wonderful example of how liars actually end up clarifying facts to the inner minds of the people in a stark manner, the emergency laws and harrassment of the public - although at first caused people to dislike "the bin ladens" it turned around to make people see clearer in due time, Allah tells His messenger that the slander of Aisha was a good thing for the believers rather than bad and that the slanderers would receive their just rewards. The event caused many questions to be resolved and much guidance to be clarified.
Also, please keep in mind that just because the government of a country acts in a certain way, that does not mean that all the citizens of that country agree with it!
That should be good reason to cause the citizens of a country to realize that democracy is a feel good/god term and a lie, to consider how things should be, to work towards rectifying their government, and if unable to, to disassociate themselves from such government, store up a few months food and take a few months well deserved break from work and spend time with the family+/kids+/friends+/books+God.
It's what the youth of surah al kahf (sometimes spoken of as the seven sleepers of ephesus - google it) did, Gandhi did it when he saw that it wasn't worth losing blood over, and God advised the Prophet pbuh to do it when he turned away from the false gods that his people worshipped, it is also reported that it will happen again during the second coming of je suis
