Will Kürlich Kerl
Banned
Challenge: With a POD after 1980, have Al-Qaida commit acts of terrorism towards Iranian targets instead of American targets, yet still be well known.
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Killing fellow muslims is against the rules of Islam. It's much, much easier to justify going after godless communists or The Great Satan, or whatever.
Ya, theres lots of friction between Sunni and Shiia, and occasional fighting. But to declare jihad?
Theyd lose all their support from Saudi for instance. Theyre not that stupid.
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Al Qaeda’s Sunni ideology regards Shiites as heretics and profoundly distrusts Shiite groups like Hezbollah. It was Al Qaeda that is reported to have given Sunni extremists in Iraq the green light to attack Shiite civilians and holy sites. A Qaeda recruiter I met in Yemen described the Shiites as “dogs and a thorn in the throat of Islam from the beginning of time.”
But now Hezbollah has taken the lead on the most incendiary issue for jihadis of all stripes: the fight against Israel.
Many Sunnis are therefore rallying to Hezbollah’s side, including the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Jordan. The Saudi cleric Salman al-Awda has defied his government’s anti-Hezbollah position, writing on his Web site that “this is not the time to express our differences with the Shiites because we are all confronted by our greater enemy, the criminal Jews and Zionists.”
For Al Qaeda, it is a time of panic. The group’s Web sites are abuzz with messages and questions about how to respond to Hezbollah’s success. One sympathizer asks whether, even knowing that the Shiites are traitors and the accomplices of the infidel Americans in Iraq, it is permissible to say a prayer for Hezbollah. He is told to curse Hezbollah along with Islam’s other enemies.
Several of Al Qaeda’s ideologues have issued official statements explaining Hezbollah’s actions and telling followers how to respond to them. The gist of their argument is that the Shiites are conspiring to destroy Islam and to resuscitate Persian imperial rule over the Middle East and ultimately the world. The ideologues label this effort the “Sassanian-Safavid conspiracy,” in reference to the Sassanians, a pre-Islamic Iranian dynasty, and to the Safavids, a Shiite dynasty that ruled Iran and parts of Iraq from 1501 till 1736.
They go on to argue that thanks to the United States (the leader of the Zionist-Crusader conspiracy), Iraq has been handed over to the Shiites, who are now wantonly massacring the country’s Sunnis. Syria is already led by a Shiite heretic, President Bashar al-Assad, whose policies harm the country’s Sunni majority.
Hezbollah, according to these analyses, seeks to dupe ordinary Muslims into believing that the Shiites are defending Islam’s holiest cause, Palestine, in order to cover for the wholesale Shiite alliance with the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Iran almost invaded Afghanistan in the 1990's.
If it had done so, I could see al Qaeda going after Iran to save the Taliban. The rest of the world would watch in amazement as the most radical Islamic groups kill each other. al Qaeda would be famous by participating in this hilarious conundrum.
Surviving monarchy of Iran and killing some butterflies.
Iran almost invaded Afghanistan in the 1990's.
If it had done so, I could see al Qaeda going after Iran to save the Taliban. The rest of the world would watch in amazement as the most radical Islamic groups kill each other. al Qaeda would be famous by participating in this hilarious conundrum.
Challenge: With a POD after 1980, have Al-Qaida commit acts of terrorism towards Iranian targets instead of American targets, yet still be well known.