[–] Typo 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
You couldn't have just copied the other words at the end? Anyways, people are fools if they don't believe it. Al qaeda was created as a result of the Soviet–Afghan War. It's easy to get people to join a group when they are being victimized for an extended period of time. Sprinkle in some propaganda and people will start lining up.
Typo, ISIS is not the Mujaheddin. Islamists long predate the USA. That the USA was in a cold war and facilitated the Islamists to fight the Soviets does in no way mean that the Wahabbist leaders of the resistance got their ideology from a handful of US weapons merchants.
Ataturk and his Turkish successors had been fighting (with bullets) against similar Islamist forces all through out the post WWI period. Did the USA create that too?
And what about the Islamists in northern Nigeria that eventually became Boko Haram? The roots of this go back to the early 19th century and really all the way back to the 8th century and the very mandates lined out in the Koran. That there are pauses and periods of set backs and internal conflicts does not mean that Islam had stopped in its core demands on the faithful.
It is fashionable in the ME to dwell in conspiracy theories and to blame the West for things that Islam does to itself. If you spend any time with an Iranian or Palestinian or a Syrian you see these yarns being spun endlessly. If is like a cultural past time and it always manages to shift the needed focus on Islam, itself, onto some crack pot theory that the "Zionists did it, the Americans did it, The XYZ did it". Never that Islam has a dogmatic demand for one narrative that cannot ever be agreed to and that constantly leads to Muslims killing Muslims.
[–] dildonkers 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
Over 80 percent of Syrians also believe a 1400 year old pedophile is a great guy, too.
[–] redorangev 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Even though the US may have had a hand in destabilizing the Middle East:
Taking out Gaddaffi -> Minor warlords left unchecked
Leaving Iraq w/o stability -> Minor warlords take over
Egypt -> See above
The crimes of ISIS fall upon ISIS and no other.
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[–] anonlymouse 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
IS was inevitable, that it came this soon was partially the fault of the US though.
[–] Caboose_Calloway 2 points 0 points 2 points (+2|-2) ago
They are correct. Operation 'Greater Middle East' sought to radicalize moderate Islam to destabilize the region long before 9/11.
[–] novictim 2 points 2 points 4 points (+4|-2) ago
Islam created ISIS. No other answer is as complete as this one.
[–] dildonkers 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Nah, denying Muslims are always victims 100% of the time is racist. /s
[–] Foolish 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Islam isn't a race, it's a religion.