Reddit reviews The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
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/r/worldnews armchair expert children bullshitting as usual again.
Try propping open a history book about the Middle East or about terrorism every once in a while and learn something child. I know reading is harder than one-line memes but just try.
Hey if it's too hard to read, I recommend the audio book. Suddenly, the world won't be as confusing anymore and you won't feel the need to be bitter about everything.
P.S. you'll start being very bitter about reddit though
A great book for this is reading Crisis of Islam it talks about the nuanced differences in ideology between Salafi/Wahhabis of the Saudi brand versus the Qutbism & extremist fundamentalism of ISIS/AQ/AS/BH/JAN.
They are 100% related and very close to each other. That is certainly a huge problem for the world. But they are not friends and they certainly have conflicting views. KSA definitely needs to start changing their tune towards religion because their religious schools have certainly made the problem worse.
I agree with you though, they definitely should stop their spread of their version of Islam too. You make a great point.
Remember that there are rebels/extremists that are fighting with the Saudi army in Yemen. They fully are aware of the problems they are causing. I think they are having problems solving it because of their own personal beliefs. It's basically a clusterfuck where no one knows who to trust because the two ideologies are so close to each other, that they don't know whether they are authentically one of them, or one of the enemy.
Who's downvoting this? These people are clueless about the history of Islamic fundamentalism. (apparently the adviceanimals people are downvoting because of "antibrigade bot" hehe)
Terrorism didn't come from fucking blowback. People need to stop repeating what they hear from pundits because even the most well-renowned historians such as Bernard Lewis, who speaks fluent Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew has written many books such as this one "Crisis Islam Holy War & Unholy Terror" on the tiny differences between all the Islamic fundamentalist ideologies, including the ones that embrace terrorism.
You know how there are like 2-3 different LDS Mormon churches some more extreme than others?
Similarly, in Islamic fundamentalism, there are many different ideologies within it that are much harder to detect because they don't name their mosques differently like Christians do with their churches and sects. All of them claim to be "True Islam".
The history of Islamic terrorism didn't just "start after 9/11" and it didn't start "right before 9/11" either. Suicide terror started in the 1980s but Islamic terrorism (not suicide-based) has its roots all the way back to the 1920s. Here's a lecture by a psychiatrist named Dr. Andy Thomson who goes through the history of suicide terrorism. He's famous for papers involving evolutionary psychology, racism, NPD, bipolar, et al.
I read freakonomics, it was great but it didn't say this. I didn't read superfreakonomics, so that's the one that may have this.
Terrorism is religious extremism that is incredibly ancient. Originating with the Ḥashashīn in Iran (the origin term for assassin). Copied during the extermination of the Cathars by some Christian crusades. Finally, re-invented as suicidal self-destruction by Iran in 1982 against the Israeli IDF HQ and then the Marine Barracks in 1983.
If you want to learn more about the history and religious justifications, then the audiobook for The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Islamic historian Bernard Lewis.
It's really the idea that there are no differences between uniformed soldiers and civilians. Using tactics of asymmetric warfare and hiding among the civilian populace.