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Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Nov 20, 2011 at 15:20

Garry Lockwood wrote :

" You would have a point if the Islamists did not hate the US far more than they hate the Chinese."

Maybe somebody will have to remind them of what the US has in fact done for the worldwide cause of jihad ? We kafirs remember it so well, why are its Moslem beneficiaries to have a shorter memory ? Who created and promoted by all possible means jihad in the first place in the 80-ies ? Who gave it the most advanced weapons and training ? Who pitted it against the atheist communists ? Who conquered for Islam such places as Norther Cyprus in 1974 ? Who created two new Moslem states in the heart of Europe (Bosnia and Kosovo) on the ruins of an ancient Christian nation , something no Al-Qaeda or Taliban could have even dreamt of ? .... Yes, you guessed it. It was not the USSR. It was the US !!!

Now if you were an Islamist and if I were Zbig Brzezinsky stating my case for further US-jihadist cooperation , would you not change your mind while reminded of all those great past services rendered so selflessly by the US (both Republican -Reagan and Democratic - Clinton) for global jihad ? Past services will of course be fed with new luring promises to make both contracting parties forget of such misunderstanings as 9/11 or drone attacks in Waziristan. But isn't a new Moslem Emirate of Uyghuristan with privileged US economic relations, a generous hajj quota from the Saudis , worth sacrificing a few minor grievances on both sides ... ? I rely on perversity, cultural nihilism of such global visionaries as Brzezinski and the forces behind him !

> I would imagine that the Chinese are way below the US on the Islamist's target sheet.<

It depends. In the eyes of the Uyghur jihadists they are quite above the US. Did you forget how soft the US authorities were on the Uyghur Gitmo terrorists ? They wanted them to get settled in no other place than the old good US ! ;(

Now imagine a month or so of rabid anti-Chinese propaganda in the US-controlled media worldwide with the main target the Middle East -Central Asia. Atrocity stories with Moslems in Uyghuristan as the victims of communist tyranny, weeping ragheads telling CNN reporters how Moslems were forced to keep pigs and eat fork etc. etc. This will affect the disbalanced Moslem mind at once. More horrifying stuff could be provided by our poster Kepha Hor ... The hysteria thus created could be used to galvanize another common US-jihadist enterprise in Eastern Turkestan as it was done once upon a time in Afghanistan.

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