Some popular fallacies about Islamism

http://www.redressonline.com/2015/11/some-popular-fallacies-about-islamism/
Date Written:  2015-11-18
Publisher:  Redress Information and Analysis
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX18343

Al-Qaeda and its most recent clone, the so-called "Islamic State" group, did not come about as a result of the invasion of Iraq or the civil war in Syria. It was born out of the unholy alliance between America and the Wahhabi zealots of Saudi Arabia to defeat communism and bring down the Soviet Union.