I want to learn the history of islamic terrorism.In the second half of the 20th century, islamic terror emerged as a rising new threat. We saw the rise of modern terror tacitcs and the formation of jihadist groups across the world. By the 1990s, jihad became the biggest security threat to the west. There were terror attacks in some country pretty much weekly back in the day.What caused the rise and spread of islamic terror?
>>18539824This is a good question. I once asked a muslim friend and he said he wasn't sure, but suspected it had something to do with oil.
>>18539824>What caused the rise and spread of islamic terror?The fall of the Ottoman Empire.Britain funded and aided the Arabs against the Ottomans during WW1 to dislodge them from the levant. In doing so they aligned themselves with the Saudis, who subscribed to an extremely fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. In the 19th century and before Islam was NOT associated with the extremism we see today, the Wahhabis of Saudi were basically analogous to fundamentalist protestant groups in the West, you can't really say their interpretation of their holy texts is "wrong", but it is extremely hardline.Anyway, once Saudi got rich through their oil they used this wealth to promote their form of Islam across the globe, and that is where the modern situation comes from. Saudis still export their ideology over the world today, which is why we see a rise of extremism in the West.If you were to overthrow the Saudi state and replace it with a secular regime today it probably still would be too late to put the genie back in the bottle, but that's a moot argument anyway, as Saudi Arabia is a staunch US ally and as such isn't going to be overthrown unless there's some sort of grand break with the US. Maybe Mohammed Bin Salman or his successor steps out of line and the US abandons Saudi, who knows, but at present it's looking like they're here to stay.
>>18539824Funded and invented by jews, wahhabism is invented by jews, all saudi arabian leaders are jews, israel makes muslim terrorist groups because muslims are their current greatest enemy and they want the west to hate them. historically muslims didn't really care about people being nonbelievers they just had to pay an extra tax.
>>18539824Western intervention in the Middle East
>>18539831>Implying Iran isn't just as extremist
>>18539824It all started when an Egyptian guy called Sayyid Qutb took a trip to America in the 50s. He was so disgusted by the degeneracy he saw there (and by degeneracy he meant high school students dancing with members of the opposite sex at prom) that he was radicalized into writing books detailing his ideology, Islamism, which is politicized Islam.The West is also in large to blame for the rise of Islamic terrorism.If the West hadn't thrown its lot in with Israel during the Six Day and especially after the Yom Kippur war this would not have radicalized OPEC countries like Saudi Arabia into funding terrorist groups to destabilize their enemies in Tel Aviv through non-state actors.Other actions that poured oil into the fire was the CIA putting Ayatollah Khomeini, who was living in exile in Paris, on a plane to Tehran in a bid to prevent the socialists from coming out on top during the Iranian Revolution. The result is that Iran fell into the hands of a bunch of radical Islamic fundamentalists who went on to fund Hezbollah in Lebanon and invent the suicide bomber technique during the Iran-Iraq War.Another excellent example is America and the UK funding the mujahideen, including a then-unknown Osama bin-Laden, during the Soviet-Afghan War.The result is bin-Laden founding Al-Qaeda and the Taliban forming and taking over Afghanistan.Adam Curtis' underrated Bitter Lake is a great documentary on this.
>>18539839That's due to entirely different reasons and isn't as prone to being spread (due to the sunni-shia divide, even if Iran did try to export their religion it wouldn't work).Though that was also due to Anglo shenanigans . Britain and America overthrew the ruling democratic republic in Iran and replaced it with a brutal authoritarian Shahdom so they could make lucrative oil deals.When the Iranians finally revolted against him and overthrew it the only people in the country who were in a position to assume power were the clergy, as they were already extant under the Shah, so just took over the governing role, and theocracy gonna theocracy.
>>18539824Jews and freemasons. You're welcome
>>18539845Curtis's documentaries are fun little mainstream documentaries about political events, but you should be careful about taking what he says as gospel. He has a habit of extrapolating minute events and giving them more relevance than they actually had. Basically great man theory on roids. You can't just say huge geopolitical events many decades in the making are because x did y, it's the equivalent to thinking the Nazis wouldn't have won power if not for Hitler's oratory skill.
>>18539846>ruling democratic republicIran was already a monarchy, Mossadegh was literally appointed by the shah.
>>18539845Moderate Muslims are fond of blaming Qutb for the state of Islam today, but the dude did nothing more than actually believe what Islamic texts state and what Muslim historical figures have done. In the end the violent extremism we see today is Islam’s natural state. The whole story of Islam is these kinds of groups rising to power and being put down: Kharjites, Ikhwan, ISIS, etc. Heck Muhammad warned this would happen, he was smart enough to realize he had created an ideology which inevitably would led to civil wars (fitnas) and general barbarism and decay. This pattern will keep happening with disastrous impacts for Muslims and non-Muslims alike, until Muslims abandon their creed and revert to atheism.
>>18539845His book The America I Have Seen is amusing reading. He was an exchange student at a teacher’s college in Greeley, Colorado, which in his eyes comes off as Sodom and Gomorrah. He has some good critiques of things like Americans weird obsession with watering our lawns, but his seething over corn fed Chads and Stacies having wholesome fun at a community dance is hilarious. If only some farm girl had sucked his dick, or given that he was a confirmed bachelor, he had sucked Jim Bob’s dick, we’d be spared a lot of grief.
I’m sure they studied groups like the IRA but they had an example closer to home. Zionist terror gangs got a nation state via bombing (King David Hotel) assassination (Lord Moyne, Count Bernadotte) and mass terror against civilians. They saw what worked and tried to copy it.
>>18540011The difference is that Zionist leaders like Ben Gurion were among the most competent leaders to ever exist, while Islamists leaders have in (with exceptions) been absolute morons.
>>18539831>Saudis still export their ideology over the world today, which is why we see a rise of extremism in the West.No, Jews promote and attain open borders in the West, causing disaffected Muslims to flood in. And when Whites naturally are uninterested in their new "neighbors," and the Arabs ghettoize, then disaffection festers. Then the same Jews running Western governments turn their intelligence agencies toward poking at the hornets' nest until the next new Psy-Op erupts.
>>18539824>what was the cause?The US and the UK. If you want proof, look at neocolonialism in Africa and the regime toppling with communist states which led to extremists on both sides making the population miserable
The discovery of the Americas and the route around South Africa, and transoceanic travel in general, destroyed the Silk Road trade that pretty much the entire Muslim World straddled. This led to the gradual decline of the Muslim World. This reached a peak when the Industrial Revolution sent European power into the stratosphere to the point they could outright subjugate the entire Muslim world in one form or another. This led to a huge crisis of faith in the Islamic World, as they had long built their identity around their status as the arguably most powerful civilization on the planet as being a kind of self-evident "proof" of the rightness of Islam. But now it was a Christian world and they were just living in it. Muslims responded to this crisis of faith in many ways. Some like Ataturk decided "If you can't beat em' join em'" and sought to rebuild their societies as secular Westphalian nation-states. But another strain that became increasingly popular was embodied by groups like the Salafist's, who decided that the problem was that the Islamic world was being punished for apostasy. They believed that the Islamic world had been conquered because it had "diverged" from "real" Islam and this had made it too weak to resist the West. Now here's where the Cold War comes in, because the US explicitly supports the later kind of group against the former because it makes the region easier to control and exploit, and the more secular movements have an unfortunate tendency to move towards socialist ideas, which is a big no-no for the Western corporations who want the region subjugated in the first place.
>>18539824Worldly Taghut dictators + Saudi funded Wahhabism made this confrontation inevitable.
>>18540412>The West made Salafism popularThis is just Muslims dodging the reality of their religion. The violent expansionism, intolerance of alternative viewpoints, and so on is at the core of Islam.
>>18539824Read the Qur'an maybe.
>>18539824>A rising new threatBruh, islamic terrorism is as old as islam. They've been doing this, first to each other, and then to all the other cultures and religions on God's Green Earth, since the birth of abrahamic religion.
"Terrorism" is basically just non-state actors using military force. With the fall of the Ottoman empire and the Islamic world being dominated by foreign powers Muslims resorted to using guerilla tactics. When an Islamic state collapses Muslims don't stop fighting like the Germans and Japanese did. That is why the US managed to pacify Germany and Japan but not Afghanistan, or the Moros, or the rest of the Islamic world.
brownoids from turd world countries seething that westerners have things like democracy and women's rights instead of living like it's still 1400 A.D. Bit reductionist but that's unironically what Islamic Terrorism is about at it's core.
