Welcome to another fifteen Minutes or less on World a Blaze. If you're hearing this episode on the World to Blaze podcast, these are showing up as bonus episodes. You could also listen to these episodes on the actual fifteen Minutes or less on World Ablaze podcasts. Now, if you're only consuming these or listening to these in audio, I highly encourage you to watch the video versions. There's a little bit
more going on. I dropped some nuggets of information in terms of imagery and maybe even additional video content to support what it is that I am talking about, and you can see those on Rumble or on YouTube, and I'll leave those links for the episode in the show notes themselves so that you're easily able to go ahead
and click those. Now, as far as Spotify is concerned, I always upload the video version if I have it, so if you're not using Rumble or YouTube, but you're watching video podcasts on Spotify, it will be available there as well. Now, this episode, the focus is going to be on terrorism. Why Well, this whole thing was prompted by a discussion back and forth I had on x and where people were literally blaming the US for terrorism
in the Middle East. The narrative the talking points these days is that the US is responsible for all extreme Islamist terrorist organizations. If it wasn't for the US involvement in Afghanistan, for example, in two thousand and one, when the US declared war against terrorism, or the invasion of Iraq or the war of I Rock. However, you want to look at that, that these groups wouldn't exist, that
we wouldn't have terrorism. It's all because of the United States of America that these terrorist organizations reared their ugly head and are now waging terror across the planet. Well, I'm here to call bullshit on that. I'm going to go ahead and do my best. As these are supposed to be fifteen minutes or less, I'm going to do my best to condense the information that I found. I'm
going to deliver the facts and data. Now. I'm not going to go as deep as I'd like to, and probably not as deep as you may want to, But I think we're going to do a good job in explaining the situation and the history of terrorism in the Middle East. I had to write this out, so from here on it may look like I'm reading from a teleprompter or something I pretty much am or reading my computer screen. I wanted to make sure that I got
my points how I wanted them. I didn't leave anything out, I didn't overdo it, but I still got enough data and enough facts across to support what it is that I'm going to say. So here we are terrorism in the Middle East. Let's go through the history. Now, the first known Islamic group to have members labeled as terrorists were the Hottajeat or courage Eat. So there isn't really an English pronunciation for the group, so I'm really going to say karaje Eat. So the Carajeats were the original
group that had members that became extreme Islamist terrorists. Okay, their views are that of a strict interpretation of the Quran. They believed in opposing any leader or caliph and that was deemed to be a sinner and did not abide by strict Islamic or Sharia law. The extremists Carageites or Karajeats terrorized and waged war against other Muslims. Now when was all this? Now that is the question, and this
is where it's interesting. You see this extreme form of Islamic terrorism, This started in the period between six fifty six CE through twelve fifty eight CE twelve fifty eight SE and so well before the US was ever or even a blip on the radar, well before the US era became a nation, the United States of America never even was a thought at that point. Islamic terrorism. Let me correct that as well. Extreme Islamist terrorism has been
around for a long time. They didn't pledge death to the West because the West wasn't an issue, but rather persecution and death to those that weren't extreme enough. Except now they turned their attention to not only their fellow Muslims but also against Western civilization. So terrorism based on an extremist view of Islam has been practiced by various
groups in the least for around thirteen hundred years. For those to say that the USA is to blame for the terrorist organizations such as ISIS and al Qaeda and the Taliban is just simply false period. It's false, and it's just a propaganist message used to divide the West and recruit more members to join these militant jihadist groups. So Islamic terrorism was waged against other Muslims and people of the Middle East, well before, as I stated earlier, the
United States of America ever came into existence. Yet this is important to note that one of the first wars ever fought by the USA outside of its own land was against the Muslim Barbary Pirates, and that was between eighteen oh one and eighteen oh five, and then again in eighteen fifteen and eighteen sixteen. Those wars, however, they were not religious wars, but they were that of extortion and economic gain through the capture and ransoming of US
ships and crew. So this is during the time where the United States was entering into the global economy through trade, through merchant missions and trips to where there were trading goods our own as well as purchasing, and the Barbary Pirates at that time were capturing United States ships, they were taking crewis hostages, and they were holding for ransom. So this was the first war against anybody that would be deemed Muslim or had an Islamist view outside of America.
But again, at that time, the focus of the Barbary Pirates was not a religious one. It wasn't a religious war whatsoever. It was literally piracy. Now there are some that believe modern day terrorist organizations are the result of US involvement and funding of terrorist organizations in Afghanistan. So people believe that's where it all started. Our involvement in Afghanistan paved the way for extreme is longist terrorist organizations.
While this view has become popular by those with an anti American point of view, this belief is false and nothing more than propaganda. So let's unpack what happened in Afghanistan and why the US got involved. It all started with the Russian or really the former USSR Soviet Union. You see, there was a time when Afghanistan was going down a path that veered away from its Islamic roots as a means of governance. Attempts at secular reform in
Afghanistan started in the nineteen twenties under King Amanula. I think I pronounced that correct. Let me say it again, A'manula. I believe that's right. So for many years Afghanistan was under the rule of monarchy until it became Now get this important factor. They became a communist nation in nineteen seventy eight with heavy Soviet backing. That's right. You see, before nineteen seventy eight, they were neither communists nor were
they in an Islamis state. Afghanistan was ruled by a monarchy. They were nationalists, but they were not in an Islamic state, so interestingly enough, they became a communist nation. They were even viewed as a satellite nation of the Soviet Union at the time. So this is where the US gets involved. And before I get to that point, I also want to I also want to point out that the Soviet Union actually invaded Afghanistan to fight off rebels and keep
the communist government of Afghanistan power. The Soviet occupation actually made an effect from nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty nine in Afghanistan remade a communist nation until nineteen ninety two. During this period is when modern extreme Islamic groups began
to emerge, or rather really re emerge. Now this is also the period in time where the US gets involved with Afghanistan right around this time here, but they did so by supporting Afghan rebels and fighting against the Russian occupation and to overthrow the then communist government of Afghanistan. So the question remains, is the US responsible for modern day Islamic terrorist groups? Answers still know, No, they're not.
The US did, however, arm in fund Afghan rebels, and some of the money and weapons did make their way into the hands of extreme Islamist terrorists, but it was not directly done so by the US. You see, at the time, it's important to note that the US really didn't understand the landscape. They didn't know all the relationships, they didn't understand the culture or the religious phase. So they got Pakistan involved to help broker this or manage
what was going on. And unfortunately, at the time Pakistan, while they were helping to basically divvy up or spread the aid around that the US was providing in terms of money and weaponry, they did tend to favor certain groups that had Jihattist ties. And so that's how some of this money and weaponry did get to some of these terrorist organizations. It wasn't through the US directly working
with them or directly funding them. It was due to Pakistan's involvement at the time and being the liaison between the US and these Afghani rebels. Now, before I move on, I also want to point out that the not the emergent, let's say, the re emergence of extreme Islamic groups started
in the late nineteen sixties. So the truth is that extreme Islamis terrorists existed in the Middle East in one form or another for over thirteen hundred years, right over thirteen hundred years, and most of the terror was aimed at other Muslims in an effort to subjugate and control the Arab world. It wasn't until the US War on Terror was declared in two thousand and one that groups like Al Kada and Isis made it a part of
their mission to destroy America and the West. Although the US War on Terror was a direct retalitory action to the terror attacks by Al Kada on US soil on September eleventh, two thousand and one. So did the US create terrorist organizations in the released Now? Although many rebels supported by the US did splinter off to form terrorist organizations, they weren't the reason these terrorist organizations came to be or even existed. They've already been there, they were already
re emerging in the sixties. In fact, they never really truly died out. They just didn't have any power. So the other question, did the US fund terrorist organizations? Again? No, although although under the Obama administration, four hundred million was given to Iran as part of a one point seven billion dollar settlement which ended up in Iran releasing US hostages.
The use of terrorism as a tool to gain power and control has been used in the Middle East, as I said, for over thirteen hundred years and well before the founding of the United States of America. These terrorist groups use an extremist view of Islam to mold impressionable minds and gain recruits to fight in their jahadiest wars. The US is not infallible, but the US is not the reason extreme Islamist terrorist groups exists. They were already here.