Irshad Manji argues that despite an increasingly popular belief, foreign policy grievances have caused the increased number of terrorist attacks in the West, the violent jihadists have rarely needed foreign policy grievances to justify their hot heads, as demonstrated by their kidnapping of journalists from France, the most anti-Iraq war country, and the execution of Margaret Hassan, who ran a world-renowned relief agency in Baghdad. Meanwhile, he argues that at least as many Muslims are dying at the hands of other Muslims as under the boots of any foreign imperial power.