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Grognard fantôme
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| | Let us put it this way KvR: IF Team Sunni were to win some HUGE victory, say kicking U.S. out of Afghanistan, or getting a new nation taken over by a Taliban-esque regime, that would constitute steps toward their long-term goal of a pan-ME Caliphate. Yes, I know plenty of Shia who might fight it, but also plenty of Shia who might figure "heck, we're not that different" and calculate that a more similar adversary makes a better ally than an enemy, esp. when they have just landed a big win against a far less similar adversary (The West). In short, the more "they" lose, the less propensity there is for unity, and for moderates to become sympathetic or complicit. The more they "win" the more the reverse processes are prone to be true. As far as my conclusion of them "losing big" vis a vis that year old post. I seem to very rarely encounter any cyber post who expresses thoughts similar to me re: the Islamofascist Wars. I tend to bristle at a lot of the semi-racist, semi-nationalist, rhetoric of the typical right-wingers who might be prone to use the term Islamofascist. Finding this was just a bit of *WOOT!* for me, and it reaffirms my own sense (aggregated from myriad sources over the years) that IF is "losing big." Plus, I suspect some of those "6411 Active Users" are Islamofascists, and I just can't resist the opportunity to taunt a bit  |
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| Well, Scipio, "Team Sunni" did score a major victory in 1988 when the Mujahideen managed to get the USSR out of Afghanistan and shortly afterwards establish a theocracy of their own. They had defeated one of the two greatest military powers of its day, you can hardly get huger than that. Still, that didn't unify the different Islamofascist groups behind them in a drive for the Caliphate, and there's no evidence of them even trying.
As I said, while the different Islamofascist groups would probably symphatize with each other, their causes are widely different. Al Qaeda might have ambitions of being a transnational jihad syndicate (as proven by recent evidence suggesting that they were even active in Bosnia 1992-95), but all others fight very localized fights for very specific causes.
If you'd gather all Islamofascist groups at one table in an attempt to foster cooperation, chances are that the meeting would fail due to bickering about whose cause is the most important one and should get highest priority.
If you'd poll the members of any Islamofascist faction on whether a Caliphate would be a cool thing to have, most would probably answer yes. But so would most ordinary Muslims probably do too. I know I would.
Taunt Islamofascists, huh? Since nobody contests your right to define the word as you like, I suppose you could count me as one if you really want to  . I doubt very many of those 6411 active users have been granted entrance to the P&R forum by Mongoose  |
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