Have we forgotten about the Iran Hostage Crisis?
The what? LOL! I’m sure moronials are being told that we brought that on ourselves. If they’re told at all.
Jesus Christ - people still have not learned the difference between Shia and Sunni, Arab and Iranian.
I wonder why no one in the west ever comments on the Sunni Muslim Mosque siege of 1979? What happened in Iran was linked to the Shia but in 1979 Sunni fanatics declared there was a Mahdi and took over the Kaba Mosque. It took French mercenaries and Pakistanis to take it back in bloody fighting.
Before that the Saudis were modernizing and allowed for television (that freaked the Wahabist out) and they banned slavery in 1965 and other "reforms". The Mosque siege so freaked out the Saudis that they made a deal with the religious fanatics to become even more religious in their laws and to fund wahabist mosques all over the world.
With the start of the Afghan war the Saudis had a way to export their hotheads to die in jihad. I think I read somewhere that Osama Bin Laden was deeply affected by the Mosque siege and may have been a sympathizer.
Ignore Iran - in regards to ISIS and al-Qaeda Iran is meaningless because they are Persians and Shia.
Here is a good place to explain the current Sunni Arab world:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112051155
1979: Remembering 'The Siege Of Mecca' 7:48 Queue Download Embed Transcript Facebook Twitter Google+ Email August 20, 20096:00 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Yaroslav Trofimov, a reporter with The Wall Street Journal, talks about the 1979 siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It is the holiest site in Islam, and gunmen held it for two weeks. It was one of the events that gave rise to al-Qaida, and Yaroslav wrote about it in his book The Siege of Mecca.