People really seem to struggle to realise how different they are. Hamas is not ISIS, that should be obvious to anyone with cursory knowledge on the history of the region. Hamas, Hezbollah and Ansar’Allah are not going to, nor have the capacity to, gut gay people and women who don’t wear a niqab or hijab. They are not Salafists, for the love of Christ.

The only reason people compare these wildly different groups, is because they all (at least claim to) adhere to Islamic principles. If you think for even a second, you’d realise how ridiculous this is. It’s like comparing the CDU to the KKK or even the Spanish Falange because they’re all Christian, in some way or another.

It’s plain ridiculous, though the liberal (and conservative) types never seem to get it.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      8 months ago

      The religious/ideological conflicts that you’re talking about are only the superstructural manifestations of contradictions that exist within the material base. Israeli settles aren’t joining the IDF because they read it on the Talmud. Gazan youngsters aren’t joining the resistance because they read it on the Quran. They are engaging in a struggle that is a part of the global imperialist system, founded on material conditions of colonialist violence and the displacement of indigenous people across the globe. This struggle takes place across multiple dimensions of identity, including religion, ethnicity, gender, and other such factors, but you must understand that these dimensions are not the primary contradiction across which we are to understand the conflict, but across class. It is the class character of the settlers and the resistance that actually informs the struggle and helps us understand how a resolution could take place. The utopian fantasy of a world where “everyone just stops believing in nonsense” is completely useless liberal claptrap.