Posted on 11/22/2015 1:52:29 PM PST by Lorianne
Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The Islamic State; Saudi Arabia.
In its struggle against terrorism, the West wages war on one, but shakes hands with the other. This is a mechanism of denial, and denial has a price: preserving the famous strategic alliance with Saudi Arabia at the risk of forgetting that the kingdom also relies on an alliance with a religious clergy that produces, legitimizes, spreads, preaches and defends Wahhabism, the ultra-puritanical form of Islam that Daesh feeds on.
Wahhabism, a messianic radicalism that arose in the 18th century, hopes to restore a fantasized caliphate centered on a desert, a sacred book, and two holy sites, Mecca and Medina. Born in massacre and blood, it manifests itself in a surreal relationship with women, a prohibition against non-Muslims treading on sacred territory, and ferocious religious laws. That translates into an obsessive hatred of imagery and representation and therefore art, but also of the body, nakedness and freedom. Saudi Arabia is a Daesh that has made it.
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ISIS, approved by Barrack Hussein Obama.
To say that ISIS isn't islamic is to say that Muhammad isn't islamic.
It’s like the pit bull you know you have to defeat when it breaks its chain. Self-defense is obvious to many, but we have to drag the unconvinced along.
We now have 60,000 lbs on a ten pound chain.
The Saudis are also big buddies with the Bush family. The US should have nuked Mecca after 9/11, not invade and stay in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Iran is the barking dog, Saudi Arabia is the silent dog who sneaks up on you and bites you when you don’t expect it.
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