France Sends Troops to Mali to Help Counter Islamist Advance
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lol there will be no terrorist acts because of what is going on in Mali right now. Most of the Muslims in France are North African Arabs and Berbers and they could give two sh!ts about Mali or Azawad. The people in Northern Mali are foreigners.
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I always find it humorous that when Somalia, Sudan, or any of the Sub-Saharan African countries which have an Islamic presence that is engaged in a conflict, you don't see their Muslim counterparts in the Middle East and South Asia rush en masse to help them fight the jihad or back up their fellow Muslims.
Can someone explain to me why? Not trolling, just curious.
Can someone explain to me why? Not trolling, just curious.
You are a ill-informed clown who knows very little about history nor Africa and it's tribes. You are more interested in who will be Dept of Treasury for the Federal Reserve Masters. The French Colonized Sub-Sahara Africa and you talking about your "People".
Difference is that ...
1. Those who allow Saudi Arabia to the Kings of Islam( Jordan, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain) hate blacks and want nothing to do with them unless they are killed.
2. South Asian Muslims don't get involved in conflicts outside it's borders.
3. Mid East Muslims such as Lebanon and Syria don't get involved with conflicts b.c. they are seen on the international level as "Problem Starters".
The real issue is....Islam isn't the problem here. Why wait til 2001 for Islam to be a problem to the Modern World in Western Gov't eyes? There has been that plan to create divide and conquer strategies in Africa, Middle East and blame it on something while distracted the public from the real issue....stealing Resources.
Mali, Wahabis and Saudis; Following the Money Trail
Tue, 01/08/2013 - 15:10 Thomas C. Mountain
By Thomas C. Mountain
The US and Western-backed overthrow of Libya's Ghadaffi irrevocably altered Africa's continental landscape. Chad and Mali, already paralyzed by excessive debt and climate change, are in the crosshairs of well-armed rebel movements operating across the Libyan border, backed by the West and financed by Saudi Arabia.
Mali, Wahabis and Saudis; Following the Money Trail
By Thomas C. Mountain
Previously published at Counterpunch
The Tuareg peoples of the Sahel, along with their more northern, agricultural cousins the Berbers, predate the Arab invasion of Northern Africa by millennia...
A well armed and supplied Wahabi movement in the African country of Mali, funded by the Saudis, has taken over most of northern Mali and has begun to, amongst other Wahabi practices, destroy tombs of Islamic African kings, the world famous Mansas of Mali that are world heritage sites.
This latest in a series of extremist Wahabi movements exploded on the scene following the western attack on Libya and the destruction of the Gaddafi government in 2011.
Mali, as in most of the central and western Sahel region in Africa, is in the midst of a years long drought that has left hundreds of thousands starving and millions more, especially children, damaged by malnutrition. With the pastoral, nomadic economy collapsing where did the sudden major influx of funds come from that allowed the rapid expansion of the Wahabi movement in the Sahel to take place?
While human trafficking and to a much lesser extent, drug smuggling, has been a source of income for the criminal elements of the Tuareg peoples of the region, since the western military destroyed the Gaddafi government in Libya in 2011, the major destination of the human traffickers, the numbers of migrants trafficked by the criminal gangs to Libya has fallen to a fraction of its past levels and most of the cash flow for these criminals has dried up.
The Tuareg peoples of the Sahel, along with their more northern, agricultural cousins the Berbers, predate the Arab invasion of Northern Africa by millennia and have long been victims of marginalization by both the western, mainly French, colonialists and later the neocolonialist regimes installed by their former western masters.
In the case in Chad, the French uranium mines have polluted the ground water and left the land literally life threatening. As a result for decades now the Tuareg have been in an ongoing state of armed resistance to the crimes committed against their people and have a legitimate claim to much of the Sahel region, in the case of Mali, the land of Azawad as they have proclaimed it.
But the traditional Tuareg fighters, suffering from famine and a collapsing economy have been outgunned and driven from the cities of northern Mali by the Wahabis, with their shining new pickup trucks, plentiful fuel and seemingly inexhaustible flow of weaponry and supplies.
So where is the funding for the Mali Wahabis coming from? Every Wahabi movement that has been competently investigated has been tied to the Saudis, in most cases to the almost 30,000 strong Saudi royal family and the Mali Wahabis are no exception.
In Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Iraq, Egypt and North Africa and even Syria, Saudi money, billion$ of dollar$ worth, has funded the most reactionary, extreme and violently dangerous centers of terrorism and backwardness.
Until the very real, and growing threat of Wahabism is contained, all sorts of crimes almost unthinkable in many parts of the world just decades ago will continue to spill the blood of innocents...
Murdering girls for going to school? Massacring religious pilgrims for the crime of being Shiite heretics? Destroying world heritage historical sites whether Buddhist statues in Afghanistan or tombs of the world famous Mansas of Mali, Islamic tombs, but still not pure enough for these Wahabis?
And all paid for by one of the most corrupt and reactionary regimes on the planet, who just happen to be a major ally of the western regimes, the Saudi Arabian royal family.
Once again when one digs into the real source of the crimes being committed in Africa one uncovers a foreign source, whether western or a major western ally, the Wahabi regime installed by the British on the Arabian peninsula almost a century ago, the Kingdom of the House of Saud, Saudi Arabia.
Until the very real, and growing threat of Wahabism is contained, all sorts of crimes almost unthinkable in many parts of the world just decades ago will continue to spill the blood of innocents, create chaos and anarchy and leave in its wake backwardness and suffering in the populations inflicted by this most reactionary of ideologies, an ideology that was put in power and supplied with arms and industry by the western powers that so hypocritically claim to oppose all such ignorance and oppression.
Mali, Wahabis and Saudis, follow the money trail and find out who is really to blame for the crimes committed in the name of the long suffering Tuaregs of the Sahel. And no amount of western funded West African troops who may invade and occupy Mali will do anything other than cause more suffering to Malis people.
Thomas C. Mountain is the most widely distributed independent journalist in Africa, living and reporting from Eritrea since 2006. He can be reached at thomascmountain_at_yahoo_dot_com.
Tue, 01/08/2013 - 15:10 Thomas C. Mountain
By Thomas C. Mountain
The US and Western-backed overthrow of Libya's Ghadaffi irrevocably altered Africa's continental landscape. Chad and Mali, already paralyzed by excessive debt and climate change, are in the crosshairs of well-armed rebel movements operating across the Libyan border, backed by the West and financed by Saudi Arabia.
Mali, Wahabis and Saudis; Following the Money Trail
By Thomas C. Mountain
Previously published at Counterpunch
The Tuareg peoples of the Sahel, along with their more northern, agricultural cousins the Berbers, predate the Arab invasion of Northern Africa by millennia...
A well armed and supplied Wahabi movement in the African country of Mali, funded by the Saudis, has taken over most of northern Mali and has begun to, amongst other Wahabi practices, destroy tombs of Islamic African kings, the world famous Mansas of Mali that are world heritage sites.
This latest in a series of extremist Wahabi movements exploded on the scene following the western attack on Libya and the destruction of the Gaddafi government in 2011.
Mali, as in most of the central and western Sahel region in Africa, is in the midst of a years long drought that has left hundreds of thousands starving and millions more, especially children, damaged by malnutrition. With the pastoral, nomadic economy collapsing where did the sudden major influx of funds come from that allowed the rapid expansion of the Wahabi movement in the Sahel to take place?
While human trafficking and to a much lesser extent, drug smuggling, has been a source of income for the criminal elements of the Tuareg peoples of the region, since the western military destroyed the Gaddafi government in Libya in 2011, the major destination of the human traffickers, the numbers of migrants trafficked by the criminal gangs to Libya has fallen to a fraction of its past levels and most of the cash flow for these criminals has dried up.
The Tuareg peoples of the Sahel, along with their more northern, agricultural cousins the Berbers, predate the Arab invasion of Northern Africa by millennia and have long been victims of marginalization by both the western, mainly French, colonialists and later the neocolonialist regimes installed by their former western masters.
In the case in Chad, the French uranium mines have polluted the ground water and left the land literally life threatening. As a result for decades now the Tuareg have been in an ongoing state of armed resistance to the crimes committed against their people and have a legitimate claim to much of the Sahel region, in the case of Mali, the land of Azawad as they have proclaimed it.
But the traditional Tuareg fighters, suffering from famine and a collapsing economy have been outgunned and driven from the cities of northern Mali by the Wahabis, with their shining new pickup trucks, plentiful fuel and seemingly inexhaustible flow of weaponry and supplies.
So where is the funding for the Mali Wahabis coming from? Every Wahabi movement that has been competently investigated has been tied to the Saudis, in most cases to the almost 30,000 strong Saudi royal family and the Mali Wahabis are no exception.
In Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Iraq, Egypt and North Africa and even Syria, Saudi money, billion$ of dollar$ worth, has funded the most reactionary, extreme and violently dangerous centers of terrorism and backwardness.
Until the very real, and growing threat of Wahabism is contained, all sorts of crimes almost unthinkable in many parts of the world just decades ago will continue to spill the blood of innocents...
Murdering girls for going to school? Massacring religious pilgrims for the crime of being Shiite heretics? Destroying world heritage historical sites whether Buddhist statues in Afghanistan or tombs of the world famous Mansas of Mali, Islamic tombs, but still not pure enough for these Wahabis?
And all paid for by one of the most corrupt and reactionary regimes on the planet, who just happen to be a major ally of the western regimes, the Saudi Arabian royal family.
Once again when one digs into the real source of the crimes being committed in Africa one uncovers a foreign source, whether western or a major western ally, the Wahabi regime installed by the British on the Arabian peninsula almost a century ago, the Kingdom of the House of Saud, Saudi Arabia.
Until the very real, and growing threat of Wahabism is contained, all sorts of crimes almost unthinkable in many parts of the world just decades ago will continue to spill the blood of innocents, create chaos and anarchy and leave in its wake backwardness and suffering in the populations inflicted by this most reactionary of ideologies, an ideology that was put in power and supplied with arms and industry by the western powers that so hypocritically claim to oppose all such ignorance and oppression.
Mali, Wahabis and Saudis, follow the money trail and find out who is really to blame for the crimes committed in the name of the long suffering Tuaregs of the Sahel. And no amount of western funded West African troops who may invade and occupy Mali will do anything other than cause more suffering to Malis people.
Thomas C. Mountain is the most widely distributed independent journalist in Africa, living and reporting from Eritrea since 2006. He can be reached at thomascmountain_at_yahoo_dot_com.
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This is a good question. With the Arab spring, you've seen Arabs travel to different countires to engage in hostilities with the current regime. I was just listening to the radio the other day, and they talked about how Saudi Arabia is possibly launching drone strikes into Yemen, and Saudi Arabia intervenved in Bahrain during their conflict, but yet they've refused to intervene in Somalia.
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Those islamists in Mali are extremists and need to be eliminated.
They do , I've read reports several times , this is just one
BBC News - Q&A: Who are Somalia's al-Shabab?
Read the article I posted.
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yea and after a while they will be on the run there
Islamic fundamentalists are just destabilizing their own nation states
Who funds them?
Who facilitates their rise?
Who creates conditions for them to thrive?
They're simply the mole in the whack a mole game. Who designed the game?
Saudis, Americans, Brits, Qataris, Iranians, etc.
Techniec
Drugs and Kalashnikovs
Exactly, so while these Islamists are certainly a concern, we shouldn't lose sight of the greater picture , they never exist in a void
There's a lot of people in Washington who are very happy Islamists exist
