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As is the heightened radicalism across the Muslim world.
Not to state the obvious, but the current mideast, in particular the dysfunctional Arab regimes, were the creation of great power politics from the end of WWI to the end of colonialism, and 60 years of oil exploitation following that.
Would Ahmedinezad have been elected if the US had not entered Iraq ?
Would Hamas have won by a landslide if the Bush administration had not implemented the foreign policy package of the Likud PAC the Project for a New American Century ?
Would Iran be rattling its tinny nuclear sabre ?
Would Iraq have become the gathering place for violent Muslim extremists from across the Islamic world if the US had not entered Iraq ?
We see the tactics of the usual suspects as we discover that the persons responsible for the publication of the 12 evil cartoons in Jyllands Posten had direct links to transnational neocon/neoliberals.
On the one hand, they expose the inanity of Muslim fundamentalism for the world to see.
On the other, would Muslim fundamentalism or its inanity exist to their current extents but for a century of tacky western machinations designed to feed the exploitative neoliberal socioeconomic order ?
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