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That is like saying they all embrace Shariah, they do not. Muslims are not all the same. The majority of violent jihadists are Sunni Wahhabi, the same type the west is supporting in Syria.
"The West?" a little vague on who has been advocating this support, no?
" Military aid" funds the contracts to buy weapons from U.S. manufacturers who in turn employ people who in turn consume products and services which employs people......
So what? Wars employ people, doesn't mean war is a good thing for any. Money is the root of all evil.
That must be why the terrorists let all the Muslims go before firing upon all the foreign non-muslims ..... because religion has nothing to do with it.
Given our recent history, I am going to avoid claiming anyone else is more violent than we are. We have good, Christian nutjobs spraying crowds with bullets too. It is a sickness, and we suffer from it too.
As well as enlightened Progressives foaming at the mouth to attack Syria & Iran because Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Jordan, Uganda, Somalia & Libya wasn't enough to satisfy their Progressive bloodlust.
who is Al-Shabaab? That same kind that we are sending weapons to in Syria.
Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 plunged the Horn of Africa nation into anarchy, allowing al Shabaab, which means "Youth" or "Boys" in Arabic, to seize control of large areas of south and central Somalia.
- Al Shabaab's militia was part of Somalia's Islamic Courts Union movement that pushed U.S.-backed warlords out of the capital Mogadishu in June 2006 and ruled for six months before Somali and Ethiopian forces ousted the movement.
- Five years on, in August 2011, al Shabaab began pulling its fighters out of Mogadishu. In September 2012, African peacekeepers pushed the group out of the port of Kismayu.
- Although the rebels have still struck back repeatedly with bombs and attacks, their retreat from Mogadishu and Kismayu signaled they could not defeat militarily a government backed by foreign firepower. Ethiopian, Kenyan and African peacekeeping (AMISOM) troops have advanced and taken rebel strongholds.
- Al Qaeda said in early 2012 that al Shabaab had joined its ranks and the group has resorted to guerrilla-style hit-and-run attacks against AMISOM troops. At least 3,000 African peacekeepers have been killed in Somalia since 2007, the United Nations says. Factbox: Al Shabaab retaliates in Kenya for army offensives in Somalia | Reuters
They would call themselves freedom fighters.
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