Unless Christian and Muslim nations turn back from this mortal combat, 7/7 London attacks would only be the beginning of the payoff of the policy followed by British regimes of totally aligning itself with USA. Like an old doting mother, Britannica indulges her way ward son – on right or wrong way. United Kingdom has one of the most class stratified societies, where throughout history ,its toiling masses were made to sacrifice for the rich ruling elite and landed aristocracy; the ‘they’ for the ruling ‘us’. Yes , ‘they’ are rewarded with trinkets ; some ribbons and medals while the spoils of the war are creamed off by their Lordships and Ladies ,living on taxpayers money, some of whose doings only provide déjà vu amusement to prurient minds . There is still enough sense of fair play and justice in the British society, which one hopes will prevail.

The self-gloating and the exaggerated account of British role in recent history are projected assiduously. The British decamped from Dunkirk but it was described as a great orderly retreat. Without the support of USA, the new power after the 2^nd world war, U.K along with France and Israel were humiliated following their invasion of Col Jamal Nasser of Egypt who only asserted sovereignty over its property the Suez canal .And without Uncle Sam’ Ronald Reagan’s support, the outcome could have been dicey in UK’s war on Argentina in far way in Falkland islands known as the Malvinas to the Argentines. Day in and day out British propaganda, brain washes its own citizens from childhood and others who follow English media and its publications as if the British had won the Second World War. So claim the Americans too. However, the truth is quite different.

In the 2^nd world war Russians lost around 27 million people, almost 14% of its pre-war population, compared to British losses of around 0.6% of its population and American losses of around 0.3% only. (That the determined numbers matter is being shown in Iraq now.) It was the Soviet determination to resist Nazi aggression and expel the Germans from their land and incredible credible level of sacrifices, which caused the majority of German casualties and decimation of its war machine. It was here that the 2^nd world war was won .If the Red Army had not succeeded against all the odds in first halting the Germans in 1941 and then inflicting major defeats at Stalin grad and Kursk in 1943, it is difficult to see how the western democracies, Britain and the US, could have expelled Germany from its Eurasian empire and its resources. However, look at the Hollywood films of grand victories over tattered German armies and battered war machine on the Western front.

At the Asian end, another little known fact is that the Chinese who lost an estimated 20 million against Japanese aggression had kept the Japanese bogged down in Asia. If Japan had achieved quick victory in China, large resources would have been available to attack the rear of the Soviet Union, or an increased military presence in the Pacific .Thus China made things easier for the western allies.

Many books have been written by Western authors about the Nazi rapes and the sexual violence unleashed by the Red Army, but little has been written about mass rapes committed by American and British troops. Robert Lilly, a distinguished American sociologist, prepared a book ‘Taken by Force’ based on military archives, a study of the rapes committed by American soldiers in Europe between 1942 and 1945 and suggested a minimum of 10,000 American rapes. Others described a much higher level of unpunished sex crimes. Lilly’s book prepared in 2001 was suppressed and it first appeared in 2003 in a French translation . Time Magazine reported in September 1945: "Our own army and the British army along with ours have done their share of looting and raping ... we too are considered an army of rapists."

Trying to re-live days of colonial glory by supporting neo-colonial adventures and playing in the big-league would only bring an endless war, devastation and misery to the British people. Juggler like contortions and ingenuous TV performances cannot hide UK’s status as a middle level power trying to stride around the world stage as USA’s stalking horse.

More than anything else the evolution of a state’s polity in the world, specially in Europe and later on dictated by European powers in Asia and elsewhere ,and after the Second World War by USA , has relied on nationalism based narrowly on religion , language and some kind of shared ethnicity and history. Still we only have Roman Catholic France, Italy and Spain , a Protestant Germany, and white Anglo Saxon Protestant USA, but all claiming to be secular.. On the eastern side, apart from Catholic Poland are orthodox Serbia, Romania, Greece, Ukraine and Russia These sectional religion based national identities are a result of centuries of warfare. The Catholic and Protestant enmity has still not been reconciled in northern Ireland. How secular European nations are, has been fully exposed by their opposition to secular Turkey’s wish to join the Europe Union , even after it has fulfilled all the EU prescribed norms.

A reading of the history of the Ottoman Empire shows how it was dismantled and destroyed by European Christian powers by exploiting religious and ethnic divisions and cleavages of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multilingual Empire , which had lasted for 600 years. The means used by Europe in promoting cleavages and the consequent violence among ethnicities and religions continued unabated, in the Balkans (on rise again), and even in Muslim parts of Ottoman empire i.e. North Africa and the Middle East. Then there was division of greater Syria, Palestine, Cyprus on similar cleavages. Marshall Tito tried to create a multi- ethnic and multi-religious Yugoslavia from the remnants of the Ottoman and the Habsburg Empires but it too was undone by Western powers in early 1990s.

Religion was also used as a wedge to partition multi- religious, multi- ethnic and multi- lingual India. The collapse of the Soviet Union came about because of internal contradictions and Christian and Muslim differences. Christian Muslim differences remain acute in Lebanon, Cyprus, Egypt and Sudan.