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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I think we should make a distinction between the Taliban in the 90s who were engaging in sectarian masacres. And the Taliban now, who don't do that. The Taliban now is also significantly better than the previous comprador regime in many ways, the most noticable was the control of the opium trade and production