Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Yoy may be right. But we are all informed by and sometimes victims of our experiences.Perhaps I just have more experience with fundamentalist Islam than you do. It’s not about race or ethnicity, we have had our crazies too. Hale-Bopp cult, Jim Jones of Jamestown (in)fame, Waco cult, just to name a few. But none of them had nukes or ICBMs to deliver them
I think this regime has enjoyed power and all of its spoils for 47 years and wants to keep it that way. Using religion as a tool of manipulation has been an incredibly effective means across many civilizations for centuries. This is no different.