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Thursday, August 04, 2005

The real war on terror

Juan Cole explains the origins of Islamic fundamentalism. Let's not forget, he says, that the Reagan administration funded numerous terrorist organisations - "freedom fighters" in his deluded mindset - and helped sustain a global network of US-supported fanatics. Christian fundamentalists loved the Mujahideen as alleged fighters against Soviet communism.

Reaganites loved the concept of creating a new world order led by US-backed militias in various corners of the world. The Saudi government was central in this thinking, working closely with the Americans to facilitate weapons training for the once anti-Soviet Islamic forces. Unfortunately, most of these individuals and groups are now the very same people fighting America in Iraq, Afghanistan et al.

Nobody says it better than Cole:

"The American Right, having created the Mujahideen and having mightily contributed to the creation of al-Qaeda, abruptly announced that there was something deeply wrong with Islam, that it kept producing terrorists."

2 Comments:

Blogger weezil said...

The Americans' enemy's enemy needs more guns, apparently.

Shabadoo, you of course have much greater credibility than Juan Cole.

heh..

hah..

*guffaw*

-weez

Friday, August 05, 2005 10:14:00 am  
Blogger Antony Loewenstein said...

History confronts people, clearly.
To not understand how the US essentially built the Islamist movement we have today is not just ignorant, it's delusional.
But hey, let's not look too closely at ourselves. Much more fun to say they're all CRAZY!

Friday, August 05, 2005 10:51:00 am  

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