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The Ultimate Culture War: White-Nationalists vs Salafists
One side trumpeting a vilification of all things non-white and/or non-western in a shallow attempt to retain a form of demographic purity. Some seeking to drive out the “foreign invaders” in their own lands, others yearning for another full on crusade to reclaim all lost Christian lands. Most being people who generally cannot tell the difference between a Sheikh and a Sikh, often targeting both.
On the other side there are totalitarian religious ideologues who seek to impose their fundamentalist version of Sunni Islam, which rivals Christianity during the Dark Ages, throughout the world. A global movement that essentially seeks to return the Islamic World — and ultimately humanity itself — back to the 7th century. Back to the time of Muhammad and his immediate successors, known as Salaf (“pious predecessors”).
Both fuelled by hate, both divided into various factions, some who use violence and murder to achieve their goals. Neither with any one (living) leader who is able to successfully organize them. Though perhaps President Donald Trump and ISIL’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have had the most significant effect on fuelling each group’s hate. Yet even Trump has his White-Nationalist critics and ISIL’s quasi-defeat was in part possible…
