• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    4 months ago

    Islamic terrorism has almost exclusively been the domain of Wahhabists like Al-Queada and Islamic State

    And, you know… some other guys…

    Also, uh… some people closer to home

    And lest they be forgotten…

    There’s an old joke about the Anti-American Terrorist and the Pro-American Freedom Fighter being the same dude pointed in different directions. The Taliban, being once again in control of the Afghani government, isn’t going to see itself as a “terrorist organization” any more than the Philadelphia PD bombing your house would.

    The Taliban is currently fighting Islamic State Khorasan Province, which is largely constituted of former collaborators of the coalition government.

    The Moderate Rebels! Easy to forget that ISIS used to be an ally of

    • Israel
    • Syria
    • Turkey
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Qatar
    • United States

    By turns. I’m sure that, while folks on CNN clutch their pearls and cry to the heavens about the horrors perpetuated by the Taliban on women, LGBTQ groups, minority religions, cough drug traffickers cough, and American business interests in the region, we’re going to hear very little about the politics of this particular incarnation of the Islamic State.

        • sudo@programming.dev
          42·
          4 months ago

          I said “Islamic terrorism is almost exclusively the domain of wahhabi’s” and you’re argueing, “what if the CIA funded the wahhabi’s?” as though that contradicts my point.

          I don’t know what the disagreement is. Its always the wahhabi’s executing the actual terrorism. If you want to lump in their sponsors, like is said, “go off”. But you’re framing it like I’m ignorant of that which I’m not.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            32·
            4 months ago

            and you’re argueing, “what if the CIA funded the wahhabi’s?” as though that contradicts my point.

            Is the CIA Wahhabist?

            • sudo@programming.dev
              22·
              4 months ago

              No. And no patience for the semantic argument you’re wasting my time with when we both agree on the material reality

                • sudo@programming.dev
                  1·
                  4 months ago

                  I never said they didn’t arm them. I explicitly stated multiple times that we agreed on this front. All I stated is that the only islamists doing terrorism are the wahhabists and then you’re like “ah BUT did you consider that the CIA funded those terrorists???” as though that disproves anything I said.

                  You tried to frame what should’ve been an “yes AND” as some disagreement. There is no disagreement.