Foreign Weapons and Obscure Builds V3
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Yeah. Primarily adherent to the Hanbali teachings. Refer to themselves as Muwahhid or Salafiyya. They generally consider Wahabi to be a derogatory term.
Tryna remember from school, I think the Sh’ia or Shiites believe in the rightly guided caliphates as the proper rulers of the land. Or the decedents of Muhammad and the Sunni’s believe in the empirical rule like the Ottoman Empire or some shit
I put Wahabi on my sushi every time I eat it
Taliban means students. Talib is singular.
Jihad Al-Talab is commonly referred to as offensive jihad, shares the same root as talib. Talab means, roughly, seeking.
Taliban were primarily students from Pakistan, frustrated with the westernization of Pakistan and the poor economy. They were vulnerable to rhetoric from Saudi affiliated 'thinkers' like Abdullah Azam who leveraged the Saudi influence to declare the afg-ussr war a jihad and call upon the ummah (global Muslim community is the general translation, though some Quranic references include Jews and Christians in the Ummah) to support it in any way from financial to volunteering to fight for a few weeks at a time. For a while, unemployed Saudis could receive considerable pay for fighting in AFG. Azam also leveraged this fervor to catalyze the Intifada in Palestine that ultimately resulted in the formation of Hamas.
Jihad Al-Talab is commonly referred to as offensive jihad, shares the same root as talib. Talab means, roughly, seeking.
Taliban were primarily students from Pakistan, frustrated with the westernization of Pakistan and the poor economy. They were vulnerable to rhetoric from Saudi affiliated 'thinkers' like Abdullah Azam who leveraged the Saudi influence to declare the afg-ussr war a jihad and call upon the ummah (global Muslim community is the general translation, though some Quranic references include Jews and Christians in the Ummah) to support it in any way from financial to volunteering to fight for a few weeks at a time. For a while, unemployed Saudis could receive considerable pay for fighting in AFG. Azam also leveraged this fervor to catalyze the Intifada in Palestine that ultimately resulted in the formation of Hamas.
Bro I’m impressed you remember this. All I learned is high school was “run fast, eat ass”.
If id have just stuck to that I’d be Golden right now but here I am ignoring what I learned and paying for it
Yup.
They both agree on the first 4. Most Shia are 12er, believing in 12. They believe the 12th just kinda disappeared one day, but didn't die, and will come back at the end times along with Mohammed and Jesus.
We need to have a Mountain Dew and vodka. I’ll listen, you talk. We both smoke cigars.
A lot of the 'problems' in the Muslim world really began with the Kemalist reforms in Turkey. That's when the Caliphate was destroyed and it left sunnism vulnerable to all sorts of idiots trying to claim rightful successor ship. It's actually one of the reasons Saudi exists. The dude who ruled the Hejaz (western Saudi, mecca, medina) tried to assume the caliphate and drew a lot of criticism because of his ties to the West. This allowed ibn al-saud, ruler of the naked, to form something of a coalition and overrun the Hejaz.
Most the dudes I got into engagements with in Afghanistan were 100% paki. I was down way south East in panjwaii tho. In the horn where the arghandab river does a funky bend and makes wonderful soil for growing poppy and pressure plate IEDs
Mohammad Khatami, president of Iran from 97-05, really pushed his idea of a Dialog among Civilizations. He asserted that better understanding between Iran, the ME, and the West was the only real way forward and that it could be achieved without compromising religious and cultural values, but it could only be achieved through truly understanding each other. I think he was right. You don't have to recite the Shahada and believe Mohammad was the last messenger of god, but if you truly understand the motivations if those who do, it makes it a lot easier to deal with them. The problem our foreign policy faces is that most of the people in gov who actually understand these regions are analysts and most of the people who make decisions have no fucking clue what's going on.
Post Arab spring definitely saw a lot of MENA wide recruitment for the Taliban, but it's still largely Paki.
Hell, that's more than i remember from po-dunk middle Georgia high school. Actually, i remember "play football or you're nothing"
I didn't play football. I was good at math though. We had an amazing 80 year old math teacher. I went back to see her after college. She had the biggest smile I've ever seen that day.
I went between classes. I'm 100% sure she went into the next class and roasted the fuck out of those kids. You had to know her. God rest your soul Ms. Bell.
Good man. I come from a long line of teachers and they absolutely love to see old students doing well. My moms been teaching for 29 years and I swear she treats those kids like her own kids. I’ve got a lot of siblings I guess lol
Train them young.
I’m thinking next year we’ll add some scotch bonnet, but the reapers scare me.
I’m also intrigued by the chocolate habaneros. It’s in between the regular habs and the reaper.
But we like it hot, going in and out.
That was my thought as well.
I used to just use store bought habaneros for the spice, but since we grew our own this year, I had to try one by itself. I was really surprised at the flavor. Yes, it was hot, but it also tasted good.
Dude after watching the video of my dad and brother I ain’t putting no Carolina reaper near my mouth