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applegrove

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1. Rich people recreate fundamentalism as a way to undo

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Sat Jan 2, 2016, 05:55 AM

Jan 2016

democracy and undo the resulting middle class, so the rich can have more power. A few of the fundamentalists then go nutters and kill innocents in religion's name. A very old story and a current one. What a colossal waste of humanity.

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ISIS Massacred Over 300 West African Migrants In Libya On New Year�s Day [View all] Liberal_in_LA Jan 2016 OP

Rich people recreate fundamentalism as a way to undo applegrove Jan 2016 #1

What? rjsquirrel Jan 2016 #5

The Saudis created wahabbism in the middle east applegrove Jan 2016 #6

What class struggle? mdbl Jan 2016 #7

O Brave New World Babel_17 Jan 2016 #2

Just so you know that picture is from the Camp Speicher massacre. joshcryer Jan 2016 #3

Thanks. I will remove pic Liberal_in_LA Jan 2016 #4

We are in a new era of genocide. CJCRANE Jan 2016 #8

Black/Arab tensions in Africa started long before the PNAC. Even if ISIS didn't exist, this kind of Chakab Jan 2016 #9

No it wouldn't. Gadaffi was a Pan Africanist. Black Africans were not slaughtered like this when CJCRANE Jan 2016 #10

absolutely-- and I think Libya today is a lawless state? ellenrr Jan 2016 #11

Lawless yes, but it isn't a state anymore. It has two competing governments: one is islamist CJCRANE Jan 2016 #13

everywhere the US goes, destruction follows. I didn't like Ghaddafi, ellenrr Jan 2016 #15

Exactly, and most of the members of IS in Syria have been said to be recruited from Libya. polly7 Jan 2016 #14

I wonder if a former Secretary of State still approves of... MattSh Jan 2016 #12

well, it can't be because of our invasion, because it wasn't Dumbya doing the invading! MisterP Jan 2016 #16