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In reply to the discussion: Dear Liberals: Being Critical of Islam Is Not Racism [View all]mhatrw
(10,786 posts)Who funded the Mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan?
Who tried to topple secular Egyptian Muslim champion Nasser?
Who replaced secular Iranian champion Mohammad Mosaddegh with the hated Shah of Iran?
Who has made the Saudis their second most favored son in the Middle East after Israel? Who has helped the Sauds export fundamentalist Wahhabism around the globe?
If our US leaders want to encourage Islamic nations to be more secular and less theocratic, they sure have a strange way of going about this.
My take is that our leaders like to encourage divisions among various peoples because war is so profitable to them and because war solidifies their power. So first they do everything in their power to foment Islamic fundamentalism because they know they can always count on brainwashed fundy true believers to go to war against The Evil Other at the drop of a hat. Then they can sell your drumbeat meme that Islam is a uniquely evil belief system in order to brainwash Americans into $upporting returning fire with infinitely $uperior force because the Muslims they fund and support are so uniquely evil.