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How to make people realise organisations like Hamas, Hezbollah and Ansar'Allah are not the same as the Taliban or the Islamic State? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 3 days ago by borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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People really seem to struggle to realise how different they are. Hamas is not ISIS, that should be obvious to anyone with cursory knowledge on the history of the region. Hamas, Hezbollah and Ansar'Allah are not going to, nor have the capacity to, gut gay people and women who don't wear a niqab or hijab. They are not Salafists, for the love of Christ.

The only reason people compare these wildly different groups, is because they all (at least claim to) adhere to Islamic principles. If you think for even a second, you'd realise how ridiculous this is. It's like comparing the CDU to the KKK or even the Spanish Falange because they're all Christian, in some way or another.

It's plain ridiculous, though the liberal (and conservative) types never seem to get it.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I still maintain that a large root cause of Middle East conflict is not entirely caused by, but largely informed by, religion. Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, and their sects, all add fuel to the fire.

Then explain why OG Zionists like Herzl as well as influential Israeli politicians like Meir and Ben-Gurion were atheist Jews who don't even believe in God. They obviously didn't need to believe in God before stealing land from the Palestinians and justifying their theft from a God they don't even believe in.

[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Western hypocrisy is what it is

[–] SamotsvetyVIA@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

It's still not wrong to say that religion forms the majority of the basis in popular media for the "legitimacy" of the existence of Israel, and also a part in the "legitimacy" of the Palestinian cause.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Huh, I didn’t know that.