Richard Miniter
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first heard Jan 2026
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But it took months.
Those two effects.
Turbocharged.
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radical Islam from an idea that existed among intellectuals and school teachers and a handful of people inside uh the Aquan Muslim, the Muslim Brotherhood.
And
brought it out into the realm of political possibility.
And then the third thing happens in nineteen seventy nine.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a traditional Muslim country invaded by an atheist communist superpower.
And those three things acting together
meant that jihad the the preaching of Abdullah Azam, who was in nineteen seventy nine a mentor to Osama bin Laden, that jihad is the way, and jihad does not mean spiritual change in the thinking of Abdullah Azam and in the various Salafis who follow.
Um
Him and his his dogma and his doctrine.
It means fighting on the surf.
And killing infidels in order to bring about the last days, the end of the world, so that Allah may reign supreme over all the world.
And
They were cycle so to to spare themselves revolutions like what they saw in Iran across the Sunni Arab countries.
They began encouraging these terrorists, even in fact later in the nineteen eighties, uh opening their prisons and sending these radicals to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets.
The thinking of Saudi intelligence especially.
Uh was that
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