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There used to be vibrant communist movements in many Muslim countries, but these were crushed by the CIA working in unison with the Saudis and other corrupt governments. (Read this book for more info.)
Way to side with the imperialist oppressors bruh
To be fair, the Taliban is Afghanistan. This is also because the US government forced changes to the tribes. Like the Brits in Arabia the CIA boosted the fiercest fighters who happened to be the most extreme version of Islam, the wahabbi.
Reagan's proxy war on the Soviet Union used these Arab mercenaries then abandoned Afghanistan after the Soviet withdrawal leaving the vacuum for the wahabbi to seize control.
If not for the CIA the Taliban wouldn't exist. Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (American Empire Project) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805081372/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_RDBD3E3B2FZMNGR07GMX
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>While there may be a small number of violent Buddhists that inhabit a small corner of the earth, that is obviously an edge case. The issue is that the most populous, fastest growing religion has a conqueror prophet as a founder and a blatant unwillingness to reform into modern times (at least in any meaningful way as far as I can tell). I'm not saying its the only toxic ideology, I'm just saying its the biggest one. And just to be clear, I'm using anything that could be interpreted to justify horrifying practices as a toxic ideology. Which brings me back to my original comment- I'm not promoting pro lifers at all, I just think its weird the left would be marching buddies with someone who probably shares 0 of their values in Sarsour.
I don't think we are going to come to a consensus on reddit.
The point is that you do not know Sarsour's values. I know plenty of Muslims in the US that have no aspirations to conquer anything but their morning cup of Joe.
My point remains... You are demoralizing an entire group based on your preconceived ideas about their religion. You are not a religous scholar so you probably have only a very brief time period you are pulling those ideas from. I do not mean that in an insulting way. I only am stating that you are making a very common error. You are taking an idea that has been used for some ugliness and amplifying it. For example, you hear conquering profit and you think that means that is the defining tenant of Islam. For Christianity, you can take Mathew 10:34 and make a similar argument: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword."
Does this mean that Christians are here to slaughter, to divide, or to force conversion? You would probably say that it doesn't because of the context of the verse etc... However, in the past, this, and other ugly verses have been interpreted that way. My distant relatives were forced to convert, or die, because of it. Further, the Muslims who were in the same region of the world were fairly cooperative with other religions (at the time) so long as that religion was not polytheistic. Moreover, in the developing world, those with different beliefs are still being killed by Christians, with verses like this as justification. My point is that you will find radical Islamists who believe that they need to kill infidels. However, it is an enormous leap to place Muslims in the developed world into the same bucket as those radical Islamists. It would be equally wrong to place Christians into the same bucket as those that are committing atrocities in Africa or even those who were historically violent in Europe.
Anyway, I'll add some links at the bottom if you are interested in why there is such a powder keg of radical islamists now (compared to historically). If you are not interested, then I would suggest taking the time to honestly get to know some Muslims in the US. I think you would be surprised with how many things we have in common.
Jihadism
No need to look as far as Latin America--just look to direct US support of anti-Soviet Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan.
A notorious example is Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who one journalism professor has called "the most vicious, bloodthirsty, egomaniacal and amoral of all the Afghan troublemakers of the past four decades." A broader historical overview can be found here, some of the main points of which are summarized briefly here
I suggest you to read this.
"Political Islam" is a philosophy that grew in the 2nd half of the 20th century on Western money and influence so western big business could prevent that part of the world from becoming socialist and tap their economies, and it is quite separate from the religion. I highly recommend reading this book to educate yourself on the issue
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Game-Unleash-Fundamentalist-American/dp/0805081372
And Syria. And Chechnya. And the KLA in yugoslavia. The spread of radical wahhabi islam was funded by western intelligence agencies to act as a counterweight to secular Nasserite Arab nationalism.
http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Game-Unleash-Fundamentalist-American/dp/0805081372
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