Is Saudi Arabia more Extreme than 'Islamic State'?
My comment
I find this hypocritical. It excludes the extremism of the Western regimes. When an organization kills or beheads people or throws gays to their deaths, etc, they are called extremists and barbaric, but when the Western regimes invade and occupy countries, kill half a million children through sanctions, kill civilians by bombing weddings and shelters, etc, impose economic policies on countries, support or turn a blind eye on Israel's state's and settlers' barbarism, being part of the counter-revolution that has aborted the Arab uprising, rendition, torture, blackmailing, arm-twisting, corporate involvement in fuelling wars in Africa, for example, etc... they are not called barbaric and extremists because they kill "democratically" using their smart bombs, F16s, white phosperous... and give people "freedom". The small barbarism, if you trace it, is the bastard child of the big barbarism of the big powers from the era of the empires to the invasion of Iraq to the arms trade and financial terrorism. Note: the Assad's regime has killed far more people than the Islamic state, but where is the outcry?
“We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians." (Bertolt Brecht)
My comment
I find this hypocritical. It excludes the extremism of the Western regimes. When an organization kills or beheads people or throws gays to their deaths, etc, they are called extremists and barbaric, but when the Western regimes invade and occupy countries, kill half a million children through sanctions, kill civilians by bombing weddings and shelters, etc, impose economic policies on countries, support or turn a blind eye on Israel's state's and settlers' barbarism, being part of the counter-revolution that has aborted the Arab uprising, rendition, torture, blackmailing, arm-twisting, corporate involvement in fuelling wars in Africa, for example, etc... they are not called barbaric and extremists because they kill "democratically" using their smart bombs, F16s, white phosperous... and give people "freedom". The small barbarism, if you trace it, is the bastard child of the big barbarism of the big powers from the era of the empires to the invasion of Iraq to the arms trade and financial terrorism. Note: the Assad's regime has killed far more people than the Islamic state, but where is the outcry?
“We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians." (Bertolt Brecht)
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