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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45
I can tell you where the extremism came from.
Actually 1953. That wasn't even the worst account of Operation Ajax I have seen too. I can give you other sources if you want.
It doesn't matter if the treat is real or not, if a country feels threatened by an outside force, they will usually resort to extremism.
I have given one source on Operation Ajax and I have read many, all of which have said the same thing. The CIA even admits to it. If you can find something that goes against what I have posted, I would like to see it. |
Oh I agree, don't get me wrong. I am well aware of our history in the era of the 50's - 90's. I lived much of it, some as a young child or teen bystander, some as a participant. The bottom line is that there is no way in hell that you can hang all of the current level of Muslim extremism on some collection of single events conducted by Western governments. No way in hell. That would be a totally simplistic view of how the Muslim world views the West (IMHO). You completely discount the source of the extremism thought and that is from a bastardization of the Koran. The other historical events are fuel for the fire of Muslim extremism which some very shrewd leaders in the Muslim world have manipulated to serve their cause. This idea that we, the US or the West, are someway directly responsible for Muslim extremism is naive.