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Do you think people decide to just blow themselves up for no reason? Or maybe installing the shah in Iran, giving military aid in abundance to Israel, giving gu

Do you think people decide to just blow themselves up for no reason? Or maybe installing the shah in Iran, giving military aid in abundance to Israel, giving guns to Osama, giving guns to Saddam might, just might, have had something to do with it? God forbid the Iranian people benefit from their own oil fields! That'd fuck over BP!

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- Tangaroa 13y ago
  "people decide to just blow themselves up for _no_ reason" = they have established a coherent subsect of Islam which teaches that Islam requires they forever be waging war against the nonbelievers and which celebrates dying in such a war as the highest honor, giving them a very clear reason that anyone with open eyes is well aware of by now. "Jihad means war only. Fighting, with the sword." - Abdullah Azzam. "The Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." - The Muslim Brotherhood creed "We love death more than you love life." - Nidal Hassan "We love death. They love life." - Azzam Tamimi "We are going to win, because they love life and we love death." - Hassan Nasrallah --- "installing the shah in Iran" = the West intervened after Mohammad Mosaddegh launched a coup d'etat against the Shah of Iran, this after Mosaddegh had dissolved parliament and declared himself dictator. Look it up. --- "giving military aid in abundance to Israel" = the US gave anti-tank missiles to Israel in 1973, which ruined the Arab League's plan to finish the job that Hitler started. After the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, the US annually gave billions of dollars to both sides. Aid to Israel is given with the restriction that it must be spent on American weapons, making it both a subsidy for the US arms industry and a means of crippling Israel's arms industry. --- "giving guns to Osama" = The US once was nice to Osama, and this therefore justifies him ordering the 9/11 attacks. The specific choice of which parties to distribute weapons to was mostly made by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. --- "giving guns to Saddam" = The US sold weapons to Iraq in the Persian Gulf War, and this therefore justifies the 9/11 attacks by a completely unaffected third party.
  - tome 13y ago
    While we're at it, we might start to wonder why Vietnamese are not currently blowing up Americans, Indians are not currently blowing up the British, and Gabonese are not currently blowing up the French.
  - wavefunction 13y ago
    There's a billion muslims, and most of them don't believe this. I could find 5 people's quotations to cast pretty much any group in a bad light.
    - jckt 13y ago
      Indeed. I bet I could quote some Westboro Baptist Church-goers, and Christianity would look disgusting.
  - moheeb 13y ago
    Good thing the folks quoted above are stupid! First of all they give us what they love, death. Thanks! Secondly, there is no death without life...so they will always be beholden to us.

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Tangaroa 13y ago
"people decide to just blow themselves up for _no_ reason" = they have established a coherent subsect of Islam which teaches that Islam requires they forever be waging war against the nonbelievers and which celebrates dying in such a war as the highest honor, giving them a very clear reason that anyone with open eyes is well aware of by now. "Jihad means war only. Fighting, with the sword." - Abdullah Azzam. "The Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." - The Muslim Brotherhood creed "We love death more than you love life." - Nidal Hassan "We love death. They love life." - Azzam Tamimi "We are going to win, because they love life and we love death." - Hassan Nasrallah --- "installing the shah in Iran" = the West intervened after Mohammad Mosaddegh launched a coup d'etat against the Shah of Iran, this after Mosaddegh had dissolved parliament and declared himself dictator. Look it up. --- "giving military aid in abundance to Israel" = the US gave anti-tank missiles to Israel in 1973, which ruined the Arab League's plan to finish the job that Hitler started. After the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, the US annually gave billions of dollars to both sides. Aid to Israel is given with the restriction that it must be spent on American weapons, making it both a subsidy for the US arms industry and a means of crippling Israel's arms industry. --- "giving guns to Osama" = The US once was nice to Osama, and this therefore justifies him ordering the 9/11 attacks. The specific choice of which parties to distribute weapons to was mostly made by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. --- "giving guns to Saddam" = The US sold weapons to Iraq in the Persian Gulf War, and this therefore justifies the 9/11 attacks by a completely unaffected third party.
- tome 13y ago
  While we're at it, we might start to wonder why Vietnamese are not currently blowing up Americans, Indians are not currently blowing up the British, and Gabonese are not currently blowing up the French.
- wavefunction 13y ago
  There's a billion muslims, and most of them don't believe this. I could find 5 people's quotations to cast pretty much any group in a bad light.
  - jckt 13y ago
    Indeed. I bet I could quote some Westboro Baptist Church-goers, and Christianity would look disgusting.
- moheeb 13y ago
  Good thing the folks quoted above are stupid! First of all they give us what they love, death. Thanks! Secondly, there is no death without life...so they will always be beholden to us.