Posted on Nov 17, 2015
We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden...
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Did You Know We Recruited OBL?
History takes no prisoners. It shows, with absolutely lucidity, that the Islamic extremism ravaging the world today was borne out of the Western foreign policy of yesteryear.
Gore Vidal famously referred to the USA as the United States of Amnesia. The late Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai put it a little more delicately, quipping, “One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.”
In order to understand the rise of militant Salafi groups like ISIS and al-Qaida; in order to wrap our minds around their heinous, abominable attacks on civilians in the U.S., France, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria, Turkey, Yemen, Afghanistan and many, many more countries, we must rekindle this historical memory.
Where did violent Islamic extremism come from? In the wake of the horrific Paris attacks on Friday, November the 13, this is the question no one is asking — yet it is the most important one of all. If one doesn’t know why a problem emerged, if one cannot find its root, one will never be able to solve and uproot it.
Where did militant Salafi groups like ISIS and al-Qaida come from? The answer is not as complicated as many make it out to be — but, to understand, we must delve into the history of the Cold War, the historical period lied about in the West perhaps more than any other.
How the West cultivated Osama bin Laden
We needn’t reach back far into history, just a few decades.
A much-circulated photo of an article published in British newspaper the Independent in 1993 exemplifies the West’s twisted hypocrisy. Titled “Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace,” it features a large photo of Osama bin Laden, who, at the time, was a close Western ally.”
“In Islamic history, jihad as an international violent phenomenon had disappeared in the last 400 years, for all practical purposes. It was revived suddenly with American help in the 1980s. When the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan, Zia ul-Haq, the [U.S.-backed] military dictator of Pakistan, which borders on Afghanistan, saw an opportunity and launched a jihad there against godless communism. The U.S. saw a God-sent opportunity to mobilize one billion Muslims against what Reagan called the ‘Evil Empire.’
“Money started pouring in. CIA agents starting going all over the Muslim world recruiting people to fight in the great jihad. Bin Laden was one of the early prize recruits. He was not only an Arab. He was also a Saudi. He was not only a Saudi. He was also a multimillionaire, willing to put his own money into the matter. Bin Laden went around recruiting people for the jihad against communism.”
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/17/we_created_islamic_extremism_those_blaming_islam_for_isis_would_have_supported_osama_bin_laden_in_the_80s/
A lot more at the link. This is not really new, but it bears repeating.
History takes no prisoners. It shows, with absolutely lucidity, that the Islamic extremism ravaging the world today was borne out of the Western foreign policy of yesteryear.
Gore Vidal famously referred to the USA as the United States of Amnesia. The late Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai put it a little more delicately, quipping, “One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.”
In order to understand the rise of militant Salafi groups like ISIS and al-Qaida; in order to wrap our minds around their heinous, abominable attacks on civilians in the U.S., France, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria, Turkey, Yemen, Afghanistan and many, many more countries, we must rekindle this historical memory.
Where did violent Islamic extremism come from? In the wake of the horrific Paris attacks on Friday, November the 13, this is the question no one is asking — yet it is the most important one of all. If one doesn’t know why a problem emerged, if one cannot find its root, one will never be able to solve and uproot it.
Where did militant Salafi groups like ISIS and al-Qaida come from? The answer is not as complicated as many make it out to be — but, to understand, we must delve into the history of the Cold War, the historical period lied about in the West perhaps more than any other.
How the West cultivated Osama bin Laden
We needn’t reach back far into history, just a few decades.
A much-circulated photo of an article published in British newspaper the Independent in 1993 exemplifies the West’s twisted hypocrisy. Titled “Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace,” it features a large photo of Osama bin Laden, who, at the time, was a close Western ally.”
“In Islamic history, jihad as an international violent phenomenon had disappeared in the last 400 years, for all practical purposes. It was revived suddenly with American help in the 1980s. When the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan, Zia ul-Haq, the [U.S.-backed] military dictator of Pakistan, which borders on Afghanistan, saw an opportunity and launched a jihad there against godless communism. The U.S. saw a God-sent opportunity to mobilize one billion Muslims against what Reagan called the ‘Evil Empire.’
“Money started pouring in. CIA agents starting going all over the Muslim world recruiting people to fight in the great jihad. Bin Laden was one of the early prize recruits. He was not only an Arab. He was also a Saudi. He was not only a Saudi. He was also a multimillionaire, willing to put his own money into the matter. Bin Laden went around recruiting people for the jihad against communism.”
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/17/we_created_islamic_extremism_those_blaming_islam_for_isis_would_have_supported_osama_bin_laden_in_the_80s/
A lot more at the link. This is not really new, but it bears repeating.
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Capt Walter Miller - Yes, I am aware of that.
"We" also elected Obama President. It is amazing at the stupid/tragic things we have done when you look back on them, isn't it?
"We" also elected Obama President. It is amazing at the stupid/tragic things we have done when you look back on them, isn't it?
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COL Jean (John) F. B.
Capt Walter Miller - You stated "I heard last night that some of the perps sprang from poor neighborhoods outside Brussels where crime, drugs and poverty were rampant." ... Sounds like they have the same issues we have in Democrat-controlled cities in the USA, like Chicago, Detroit, Washington, LA, Baltimore, etc... Breeding grounds for cockroaches...
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Context walt, context. It's rational when valerie jarrett is of iranian decent and has ties to the muslim brotherhood and whose father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett, was a supporter of communist-American icons like the 1940s Langston Hughes. Who did BO support in the Arab Spring of Egypt, the now jailed muslim brotherhood figure, Mohamed Morsi. You can't pick one or two things, there is a pattern of support which you just fail to see.
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Cpl (Join to see)
One item is a fluke, two an anomaly, but dozens of examples over his administration is not just a pattern, it is a plan.
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Capt Walter Miller Yes I know this. Anyone saying we created Islamic extremism doesn't know the history.
http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org/understanding-islam/anti-extremism/7-islamic-radicalism-its-wahhabi-roots-and-current-representation.html
http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org/understanding-islam/anti-extremism/7-islamic-radicalism-its-wahhabi-roots-and-current-representation.html
Islamic Radicalism: Its Wahhabi Roots and Current Representation
Islamic Supreme Council of America
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Capt Walter Miller
SSG (Join to see) - You'll get AIPAC on you if you call the Israelis terrorists.
Israeli intransigence and refusal to make peace is at the root of this whole problem.
Our support of Israel makes us a target.
Walt
Israeli intransigence and refusal to make peace is at the root of this whole problem.
Our support of Israel makes us a target.
Walt
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Capt Walter Miller
I actually DID know that, but thanks for sharing.
This is just one of the reasons I think our country should dial back its involvement as a world player and take care of ourselves!
I actually DID know that, but thanks for sharing.
This is just one of the reasons I think our country should dial back its involvement as a world player and take care of ourselves!
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SGT William Howell
One of the few times where we were faced against our own planes was the Gulf War. Saddam was trying to use F-14 we gave him against us. They were way too broke to be a threat.
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