Editor's note: Bobby Naderi is a London-based journalist, guest contributor in print, radio and television, and documentary filmmaker. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.

Desperation can make the beltway in Washington do surprising things. That's exactly what they did on May 12 when they met online with their British and German counterparts at the United Nations to accuse China of "human rights violations" in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Feeling desperate and lost, the international regime changers used Muslims there as "vindication" and proof that they care about Muslims and their plights, that they stand on the right side of history, and it is false reading that they themselves violate human rights in the Muslim world.

Strange, isn't it? The West's Xinjiang hypocrisy and perpetual falsehood is the only vice that cannot be forgiven. For all the Western human rights posturing, the death and destruction rained from above in the Middle East has been and still is state-sponsored murder in its most perfect form. 

Under international law, the U.S. and its allies have no right to weaponize human rights in Xinjiang while they occupy and drop bombs on Muslim countries. Their endless war on Islam is lawless and unaccountable to the UN. Their bogus war on terror is compounding rather than diminishing the threat of regional and international terrorism.

The international regime changers are free to forget everything and bash China instead, but they can't deny responsibility. They can't abandon the UN Charter of Human Rights, the European Constitution, and its proclaimed identity. The truth may be a great deal murkier. The notion of human rights in Xinjiang is just a game they are playing, indeed a political smokescreen. The catalogue of evidence does fall into place when set against this backdrop.

Despite the charade of advocating Muslim human rights in Xinjiang, Islamophobic attacks in the West are reported to be on the rise. They are fully encouraged and supported by right-wing parties and racist politicians in order to oblige Muslims living in Europe and the U.S. to make a choice: Either us or them. And by us, they mean backing the U.S.-led war-on-terror ploy in the Middle East that we all know has been the path to global insecurity and the decline of democracy in the West.

Common sense and decency dictate that Western governments’ support should go to those who genuinely struggle to gain their rights. To that high concept, as long as Western arms manufacturers and militaries market promote war and human rights abuses, there can be no hope for a more just, peaceful and democratic Middle East, let alone universal respect for the inherent dignity and equal rights of its unfortunate peoples.

Again, isn't it strange that the U.S. still claims it is the leader of the world? But this is not leadership; it is barely a token contribution given the size and scale of the Middle Eastern emergency. When will the U.S. and its allies become a country of value? 

The displaced peoples of failed nations in Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen are of value. They have a lot of dignity. Their issues are the world's issues. The challenge of ending their displacement and suffering is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace in the region.

The political class in the West says they must stay and entertain in order to avoid creating a "vacuum of power" that will be filled by their perceived geopolitical rivals. They say they must continue the mission impossible come what may. Continuing this ill-fated gambit just increases death and destruction, and does nothing to build peace and security in the Muslim world.

There needs to be a radical shift in how the West perceives itself, the role it plays in the Muslim world, and who bears blame in the endless war of attrition and deceit. The same civilians who are suffering indiscriminate shelling and summary executions by terrorist groups and "moderate" rebels are also falling victim to the U.S.-led air war and chaos. According to Amnesty International and Airwars, the U.S.-led coalition is directly responsible for a majority of civilian deaths.

The world needs to confront the international human rights abusers and point to their hypocrisy and contradictions. How can they say they are in favor of peace when they also wage wars? How can they say they fight for what is right for Muslims when they turn a blind eye to human rights violations and war crimes against Muslims?

For those still in doubt, no breakthrough solution will ever come out of the U.S.-led "coalition of willing" which has struggled with consistency on its colonial war on Islam doctrine. The only question is how much worse is it going to get in the coming years, as President Joe Biden's administration settles into the comfortable, political mainstream of retaining hostility toward China on Xinjiang as a centerpiece of American foreign policy in the twenty-first century?

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