It is a hard fact we just don’t want to face but the biggest killers of Muslims are other Muslims.

Clearly, this won’t bode well with some readers of this news site who are quick to blame western powers for their intervention in the Middle East.

We are keen to blame atrocities on superpowers but why do we shy away from facing the hard facts – Muslims are killing other Muslims in bigger numbers than anyone else.

The sad but undeniable fact is at this stage in the history of the Middle East we have opposing Muslim powers killing other Muslims in their thousands.

This is being done either directly or through proxy wars.

Saudi Arabia is involved in a bloody and brutal war in Yemen. War has been raging inside Yemen for over two years and during that time Saudi Arabia has unleashed a barrage of highly sophisticated weaponry upon civilians in the nation.

The country is suffering from a cholera outbreak and the UN recently reported that three million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished.

As Saudi Arabia looks to suppress the Houthi movement, which supports Yemen's Zaidi Shia Muslim minority, Iran is countering this with its own brutal onslaught.

Yemen is a battleground for Saudi Arabia and Iran and in the middle are the people of Yemen.

Yet, this war has hardly seemed to be a focal point for many Muslim charitable appeals in recent years. Barring Islamic Relief who ran a dedicated appeal during Ramadan many mosques, clearly supporting the Saudi Arabian rhetoric, have simply ignored this murderous war.

Our focus though has been on Syria.

In Syria, the Russian and Iranian backed President Asad has systematically killed thousands of Muslims and those supporting rebel groups.

In this quagmire we have countless extremist Muslim groups in Syria and Iraq who are killing men, women and children.

In Afghanistan we have a government backed by western powers which is waging a war against a Muslim group who wishes to either free or enslave (depending upon how you see it) the population.

The simple undeniable fact is that we have Muslims orchestrating the murder of other Muslims.

Western powers and Russia are guilty of arming these nations but those detonating the bombs and pulling the trigger are other Muslims.

But we don’t want to face these facts when we discuss these situations on social media and in our groups. We find it quite easy to blame the superpowers for helping to create chaotic situations.

Some reading these words will point out that the actions of western backed nations and Russia have led to this ultimate state of chaos. It is they who for strategic needs have created such a void which can only be filled with bombs, bullets and a constant state of war.

It is far too easy though to blame the larger more powerful nations for creating these wars.

They, after all, have a long history of creating mistrust between Muslims. So it must be their fault that these wars take place.

We go to bed safe in the knowledge that Muslims generally do not ‘out of choice’ kill other Muslims. They are engineered to do so. This helps some of us justify killings whenever we see them on TV.

There is a level of stage management to wars and killings and Muslims are the ones who suffer as the superpowers look to exploit the oil wealth in the area.

The question we need to really explore is that if for any reason the weapons supplies stopped, if the superpowers decided for a moment to leave the Middle East to its own devices would the war in Yemen suddenly stop? Would peace in Syria be achieved?

Would there be peace in Afghanistan? Would the bombs stop going off in Pakistan?

Would Muslims stop killing other Muslims?