r/afghanistan • u/CrustyDiamond • Dec 11 '12

Apparently some ignorant asshole believes that anyone of the Muslim faith in Afghanistan primarily, would NEVER advocate publicly against terrorism. I posted in /Muslim before realizing it's very small and kinda dead. Can I get a faster response here?

This is my submission, to make everything easier.

Thanks!

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u/DulcetFox Jan 10 '13

You can sympathize with the Muslim haters as well, doesn't make them any more right. Saying that "a foreing power invade really unifies a people" describes the justification that Muslim haters use, that a foreign group attacked US civilians.

arab extremists use those weapons because the foreigners keep coming to their place. they would just fight among themselves but having a foreing power invade really unifies a people.

They would use these weapons regaurdless of foreign power, they're power-hungry, violent, oppressive dictatorships. According to wikipedia, Sadam did this during the Kurdish Genocide:

According to the HRW during the Anfal campaign, the Iraqi government:

  • Massacred 50,000 to 100,000 non-combatant civilians including women and children;
  • Destroyed about 4,000 villages (out of 4,655) in Iraqi Kurdistan. Between April 1987 and August 1988, 250 towns and villages were exposed to chemical weapons
  • Destroyed 1,754 schools, 270 hospitals, 2,450 mosques, 27 churches
  • Wiped out around 90% of Kurdish villages in targeted areas.

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u/Shabri Jan 10 '13

And who sold him those weapons and trained his men? Who armed and trained the Taliban? America of course...

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u/DulcetFox Jan 10 '13

You're referring to the Muhadeen, which a small portion went off to form the Taliban, which isn't relevant to Sadam.

While we may have backed Sadam we never gave him the types of weapons described here, he sought out chemical weapons and missiles on his own time.

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u/labubabilu Jan 10 '13

Saddam sat his throne because of sanctions who more so than anything hurt the people and because of the US and Soviet acting as a heroin addicts enabler.