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Originally posted by Team Sergeant
Exactly but those “close populations” have a whole different reason to “beat them down” (al-quada) as they share the same basic ideology.
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I'm going to tread dangerously close to D9's lane in the road on this, but AQ's ideology is not shared by many. Their ideology is largely influenced by and slightly derivitive of Marxism. In fact, the Concept of 'the base' is the same as the Marxist 'Vanguard' concept that was the result of the COMINTERN.
The Arab governments that flirted with the ideas of Nationalism were largely Marxist-Socialist in orientation. The failure of Arab nationalism, coupled with the Israeli victory and...one more thing I'm forgetting at the moment, contributed to this nebulous concept of 'Arab shame' which some (not me) has driven so many intot he ranks of AQ. This association with a fairly low point in Arab history has led many in the region to reject, out of hand, Marxist associated ideologies.
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Last edited by Jimbo; 08-04-2004 at 13:17.
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