RE: BREAKING: Cold War-era Wahhabism used as tool against Soviets. Saudi Arabia Admits
March 30, 2018 at 7:28 am
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2018 at 7:37 am by WinterHold.)
(March 29, 2018 at 9:55 pm)chimp3 Wrote: I don't doubt that military strategists are mining the Mother Lode of Bad Ideas for cultural/ political weaponry! It would be like shooting fish in a barrel. We do it every day on this forum without doing anyone physical harm.
Wahhabism was originated in 1700s through an alliance between the Saud family and Mohammed ibn AbdelWahhab. A fucked up movement that used religion to dominate by force in politics; it was the original ISIS.
But it didn't gain this survival skills but through oil, and British support during WW1 to destroy the Ottoman empire. Here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Darin
The British founded the third Saudi kingdom.
So.. it's quite different. Unless you considered the Islamic section in this forum to be like Saudi Arabia.
(March 29, 2018 at 10:17 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Wow, what a revelation. Next you will tell me the sun rises in the east in Saudi Arabia as well.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend is forever the principle that anyone locked in a close struggle with his enemy will adopt.
You can’t worry too much about whether your new friend might turn on you after your enemy is dead when your enemy is perceived to presents a mortal threat to you right now.
Yes; it's quite disgusting and shameful to be taught history lessons by the Sauds.
But the fat fuck -MBS- said the truth: his kingdom made a strong alliance with the U.S to send Jihadists to kill communism. The rash strategic move created a backfire called "Islamic Terrorists", you can see them blowing up everywhere from East to West.
If the eyes of your people -and the eyes of Saudies- were capable of seeing the sun; the use of Jihadists would've been avoided in the 70s.
You didn't just miss the sun; you were blind.
