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Welcome to another fifteen Minutes or less on World a Blaze.
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you to watch the video versions. There's a little bit
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more going on. I dropped some nuggets of information in
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support what it is that I am talking about, and
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notes themselves so that you're easily able to go ahead
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and click those. Now, as far as Spotify is concerned,
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I always upload the video version if I have it,
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so if you're not using Rumble or YouTube, but you're
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watching video podcasts on Spotify, it will be available there
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as well. Now, this episode, the focus is going to
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be on terrorism. Why Well, this whole thing was prompted
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by a discussion back and forth I had on x
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and where people were literally blaming the US for terrorism
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in the Middle East. The narrative the talking points these
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days is that the US is responsible for all extreme
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Islamist terrorist organizations. If it wasn't for the US involvement
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in Afghanistan, for example, in two thousand and one, when
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the US declared war against terrorism, or the invasion of
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Iraq or the war of I Rock. However, you want
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to look at that, that these groups wouldn't exist, that
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we wouldn't have terrorism. It's all because of the United
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States of America that these terrorist organizations reared their ugly
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head and are now waging terror across the planet. Well,
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I'm here to call bullshit on that. I'm going to
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go ahead and do my best. As these are supposed
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to be fifteen minutes or less, I'm going to do
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my best to condense the information that I found. I'm
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going to deliver the facts and data. Now. I'm not
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going to go as deep as I'd like to, and
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probably not as deep as you may want to, But
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I think we're going to do a good job in
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explaining the situation and the history of terrorism in the
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Middle East. I had to write this out, so from
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here on it may look like I'm reading from a
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teleprompter or something I pretty much am or reading my
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computer screen. I wanted to make sure that I got
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my points how I wanted them. I didn't leave anything out,
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I didn't overdo it, but I still got enough data
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and enough facts across to support what it is that
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I'm going to say. So here we are terrorism in
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the Middle East. Let's go through the history. Now, the
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first known Islamic group to have members labeled as terrorists
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were the Hottajeat or courage Eat. So there isn't really
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an English pronunciation for the group, so I'm really going
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to say karaje Eat. So the Carajeats were the original
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group that had members that became extreme Islamist terrorists. Okay,
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their views are that of a strict interpretation of the Quran.
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They believed in opposing any leader or caliph and that
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was deemed to be a sinner and did not abide
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by strict Islamic or Sharia law. The extremists Carageites or
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Karajeats terrorized and waged war against other Muslims. Now when
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was all this? Now that is the question, and this
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is where it's interesting. You see this extreme form of
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Islamic terrorism, This started in the period between six fifty
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six CE through twelve fifty eight CE twelve fifty eight
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SE and so well before the US was ever or
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even a blip on the radar, well before the US
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era became a nation, the United States of America never
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even was a thought at that point. Islamic terrorism. Let
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me correct that as well. Extreme Islamist terrorism has been
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around for a long time. They didn't pledge death to
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the West because the West wasn't an issue, but rather
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persecution and death to those that weren't extreme enough. Except
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now they turned their attention to not only their fellow
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Muslims but also against Western civilization. So terrorism based on
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an extremist view of Islam has been practiced by various
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groups in the least for around thirteen hundred years. For those
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to say that the USA is to blame for the
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terrorist organizations such as ISIS and al Qaeda and the
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Taliban is just simply false period. It's false, and it's
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just a propaganist message used to divide the West and
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recruit more members to join these militant jihadist groups. So
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Islamic terrorism was waged against other Muslims and people of
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the Middle East, well before, as I stated earlier, the
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United States of America ever came into existence. Yet this
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is important to note that one of the first wars
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ever fought by the USA outside of its own land
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was against the Muslim Barbary Pirates, and that was between
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eighteen oh one and eighteen oh five, and then again
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in eighteen fifteen and eighteen sixteen. Those wars, however, they
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were not religious wars, but they were that of extortion
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and economic gain through the capture and ransoming of US
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ships and crew. So this is during the time where
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the United States was entering into the global economy through trade,
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through merchant missions and trips to where there were trading
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goods our own as well as purchasing, and the Barbary
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Pirates at that time were capturing United States ships, they
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were taking crewis hostages, and they were holding for ransom.
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So this was the first war against anybody that would
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be deemed Muslim or had an Islamist view outside of America.
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But again, at that time, the focus of the Barbary
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Pirates was not a religious one. It wasn't a religious
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war whatsoever. It was literally piracy. Now there are some
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that believe modern day terrorist organizations are the result of
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US involvement and funding of terrorist organizations in Afghanistan. So
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people believe that's where it all started. Our involvement in
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Afghanistan paved the way for extreme is longist terrorist organizations.
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While this view has become popular by those with an
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anti American point of view, this belief is false and
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nothing more than propaganda. So let's unpack what happened in
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Afghanistan and why the US got involved. It all started
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with the Russian or really the former USSR Soviet Union.
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You see, there was a time when Afghanistan was going
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down a path that veered away from its Islamic roots
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as a means of governance. Attempts at secular reform in
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Afghanistan started in the nineteen twenties under King Amanula. I
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think I pronounced that correct. Let me say it again, A'manula.
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I believe that's right. So for many years Afghanistan was
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under the rule of monarchy until it became Now get
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this important factor. They became a communist nation in nineteen
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seventy eight with heavy Soviet backing. That's right. You see,
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before nineteen seventy eight, they were neither communists nor were
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they in an Islamis state. Afghanistan was ruled by a monarchy.
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They were nationalists, but they were not in an Islamic state,
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so interestingly enough, they became a communist nation. They were
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even viewed as a satellite nation of the Soviet Union
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at the time. So this is where the US gets involved.
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And before I get to that point, I also want
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to I also want to point out that the Soviet
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Union actually invaded Afghanistan to fight off rebels and keep
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the communist government of Afghanistan power. The Soviet occupation actually
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made an effect from nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty
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nine in Afghanistan remade a communist nation until nineteen ninety two.
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During this period is when modern extreme Islamic groups began
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to emerge, or rather really re emerge. Now this is
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also the period in time where the US gets involved
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with Afghanistan right around this time here, but they did
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so by supporting Afghan rebels and fighting against the Russian
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occupation and to overthrow the then communist government of Afghanistan.
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So the question remains, is the US responsible for modern
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day Islamic terrorist groups? Answers still know, No, they're not.
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The US did, however, arm in fund Afghan rebels, and
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some of the money and weapons did make their way
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into the hands of extreme Islamist terrorists, but it was
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not directly done so by the US. You see, at
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the time, it's important to note that the US really
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didn't understand the landscape. They didn't know all the relationships,
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they didn't understand the culture or the religious phase. So
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they got Pakistan involved to help broker this or manage
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what was going on. And unfortunately, at the time Pakistan,
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while they were helping to basically divvy up or spread
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the aid around that the US was providing in terms
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of money and weaponry, they did tend to favor certain
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groups that had Jihattist ties. And so that's how some
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of this money and weaponry did get to some of
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these terrorist organizations. It wasn't through the US directly working
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with them or directly funding them. It was due to
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Pakistan's involvement at the time and being the liaison between
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the US and these Afghani rebels. Now, before I move on,
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I also want to point out that the not the emergent,
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let's say, the re emergence of extreme Islamic groups started
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in the late nineteen sixties. So the truth is that
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extreme Islamis terrorists existed in the Middle East in one
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form or another for over thirteen hundred years, right over
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thirteen hundred years, and most of the terror was aimed
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at other Muslims in an effort to subjugate and control
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the Arab world. It wasn't until the US War on
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Terror was declared in two thousand and one that groups
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like Al Kada and Isis made it a part of
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their mission to destroy America and the West. Although the
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US War on Terror was a direct retalitory action to
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the terror attacks by Al Kada on US soil on
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September eleventh, two thousand and one. So did the US
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create terrorist organizations in the released Now? Although many rebels
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supported by the US did splinter off to form terrorist organizations,
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they weren't the reason these terrorist organizations came to be
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or even existed. They've already been there, they were already
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re emerging in the sixties. In fact, they never really
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truly died out. They just didn't have any power. So
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the other question, did the US fund terrorist organizations? Again? No,
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although although under the Obama administration, four hundred million was
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given to Iran as part of a one point seven
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billion dollar settlement which ended up in Iran releasing US hostages.
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The use of terrorism as a tool to gain power
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and control has been used in the Middle East, as
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I said, for over thirteen hundred years and well before
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the founding of the United States of America. These terrorist
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groups use an extremist view of Islam to mold impressionable
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minds and gain recruits to fight in their jahadiest wars.
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The US is not infallible, but the US is not
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the reason extreme Islamist terrorist groups exists. They were already here.
