Originally posted by GePap
on a few things said:
One has to wonder as well, if there is an inherent problem with Islam, why is it that all this muslim militancy really seems to get started in 1979?
on a few things said:
One has to wonder as well, if there is an inherent problem with Islam, why is it that all this muslim militancy really seems to get started in 1979?
2. The Saudi response to the Iranian revolution, which was to fund the spread of militan wahabism as fast as possible to preempt the appeal of the Iranian revolution to Sunni populations.
Re your casualty numbers
1. Are you including civil wars? Im thinking of Tajikistan, Algeria, Afghanistan pre-2001, etc.
2. Of course this doesnt approach the magnitude of World War 2. The nature of the "war" is much closer to the cold war than to WW2.
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