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The U.S. Is Engaged In a Religious War … On the Side of “Islamic Jihadis”
by Washington’s Blog - Open-Publishing - Tuesday 30 April 2013The U.S. Is Engaged In a Religious War … On the Side of “Islamic Jihadis”
By Washington’s Blog
Global Research, April 30, 2013
Washington’s Blog
Backing One Side Against the Other In Someone Else’s Religious War Is Dangerous
Preface: Americans would be disgusted if the might of the U.S. military and the riches of the U.S. treasury were used to support one Christian faith (say Methodists) in a shooting war against another faith (say Luterhans). We would be even more offended if the U.S. backed one Hindu sect in a war against a competing Hindu sect, or one school of Judaism against a competing school of Judaism in an armed battle. But that’s exactly what we’ve been doing … backing one Islamic faith against another.
We are not siding with one sect or the other. Nor are we claiming that all people of any particular sect are bad or violent people.
What we’re saying is that the whole problem is that the U.S. is taking sides … in someone else’s religious war.
Many Americans assume either:
(1) The U.S. doesn’t take sides in religious wars
Or
(2) We are fighting a crusade against Muslims
Neither assumption is correct. In fact, we are fighting a religious war on the same side as the Muslim jihadis. Unfortunately – as shown below – this is neither wild-eyed conspiracy theory or breathless hyperbole.
Specifically, the U.S. has directly inserted itself into a sectarian war between the two main Islamic sects, backing the “Sunnis” and attacking the “Shiites” (also called “Shia”). See this, this and this.
For example, American political leaders have been very close to Saudi (i.e. Sunni) leaders for decades: