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Scootaloo

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2. Which goes back to Saudi Arabia.

Reply to JI7 (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 11:58 PM

Mar 2015

The crux of the fight this time is Saudi Arabia's export of radical, violently anti-Shia Wahabbist Islam. These guys are essentially nazis on a budget, with the rhetoric and beliefs they espouse.

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Saudi Arabia & Iran & Yemen & Iraq [View all] fadedrose Mar 2015 OP

it all goes back to Sunni v Shia JI7 Mar 2015 #1

Which goes back to Saudi Arabia. Scootaloo Mar 2015 #2

I think that's a bit too facile. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #8

kind of like a very deadly and very costly and very dangerous game of spin the bottle. NRaleighLiberal Mar 2015 #3

The question is: who's putting up the money to keep it all going ? jaysunb Mar 2015 #4

The Bush Family. glinda Mar 2015 #5

The Bush gang are "facilitators" in a much larger cabal. n/t jaysunb Mar 2015 #6

yes glinda Mar 2015 #10

while they may exploit for their own gains, the problems are deeper than that JI7 Mar 2015 #7

Here is a good article about it. peoli Mar 2015 #9

Good read. glinda Mar 2015 #11