Would they have invaded Iraq if it was Christian? Especially after 19 Muslim extremists crashed 4 planes into US? How about Jews committing genocide in Gaza? After all, they didn’t bomb Germany after the Holocaust, sure they hunted a few Nazis, but let’s face it they chose to spear the rest, no?
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they went after the people with land and resources they wanted, rather than the people actually responsible for the terrible acts done to them, in both cases. like I said. if you're trying to justify it with religion, you're actively misleading yourself.
Again, I doubt your rewrite of American history will ever get you published; but here is a tittle for you: An idiot's history of the United States, just in case...
in response to several Saudi nationals crashing a plane into buildings in New York, on behalf of a Saudi living in Pakistan, we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, friend. do you really think that was because of religion.
Religion played a part in our response and the islamophobia that arose in our society; however, it undoubtedly played a major part in them attacking US, no? After all, they called the US the Great Satan, it was a holy war for them.
...why do you think a bunch of people who we armed, to fight for us, against an American enemy, and then hung out to dry after they won, chose to crash planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, friend. why no religious targets, just geopolitical ones.
Trust me, without the belief that 40 virgins are awaiting you in paradise if you are willing to commit suicide there would be very few takers. You must forget that the radical Saudi clerics were behind the attacks and that Al-Qaeda is an extremist religious organization.
Osama Bin Laden is not a cleric, friend. he was a paid-up fighter for the US in good standing, up until he made the terrible mistake of winning. are you familiar with the geopolitical rule "pay your mercenaries" when you stop paying them, they tend to do shit like this.
Who said Bin Laden was a cleric? He was deeply religious and a pan-Islamist; and the fact that he took money and weapons from the US during the Soviet Union’s occupation obviously meant very little in his holy war against the US, no? Again, maybe you should support your claim with evidence, no?
gee, he was a wonderful friend for us back when we were paying him. and then we stopped paying him, and he became not our friend. it must have been his religion that made that happen, right
Never heard the adage: My enemy’s enemy is my friend?
Al Queda is interesting, though, as an outgrowth of internal Saudi politics you know how the root cause for the Crusades was "feudal economies end up with a lot of spare sons lying around with nothing better to do than try to get themselves in the line of succession" wave hello, House of Saud.
Let me call BS to your comparison of the Saudi royal family to 12th century feudalism; all of these guys are corrupt assholes with a world class education in EU’s finest schools; extremely wealthy people don’t have to fight. But hey… include links to your claims.
they're educated as all get out, friend, but education does not change the basic structures on which their power rests. there is no way to get ahead in Saudi society beyond "wait for enough princes in line in front of you to die." this is also the only method of political change possible.
ever since the seizure of the Grand Mosque back in 1979 by anti-Saudi rebels Saudi Arabia has practiced a strict rule of "if you want to go make something of yourself, get out there and fight for the brand of Islam that says King Saud is basically divine" religion is always downstream of politics.
Again, references???
(this is for closely related reasons to why MLK Jr. was a minister: he was not the first or last person to tell white america that racism was wrong, but he was from a subset that the people on top had some qualms about cracking down too hard on, because generally priests were on their side.)