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    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Always worth remembering that the extreme ideology that a lot of Muslim terrorist groups adhere too is derived from the official state interpretation of Islam that the Saudis export all over the globe in the form of free schools and textbooks for anyone who asks. Ever since at least the Afghan extremists during the Soviet/Afghan war the US has been funding and spreading the most extreme violent and reactionary interpretation of Islam.

      • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Is my brain melting or wasn't the US exporting wahhabism etc with such fervour in the 70s/80s that extremist textbooks were being printed and produced by the University of Kentucky or Tennesse or some such?

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/08/the-taliban-indoctrinates-kids-with-jihadist-textbooks-paid-for-by-the-u-s/

          Yup.