every yank who took part in afghanistan will say they “served in the middle east” despite the country… yknow, not being in the middle east. if you’re going to invade a country on behalf of your empire i feel like you should at least know what part of the world it’s in
After 9/11 the Bush admin coined “Greater Middle East” which was literally just every majority Muslim country more or less contiguous to the Middle East. Anything from Mauritania to Somalia to Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan. The former-most having a latitude west of Europe and the latter-most having a latitude going into India and China, being lumped with a geographic region that just means “near the east”
Depends on who you’re talking to, some consider it as part due to cultural similarities. The ambiguity of what is ‘the middle east’ is part of the racism towards the area according to some of the middle east history classes I’ve had
yeah and it’s pretty culturally distinct, they just want to lump muslim countries together. it’s as “middle eastern” as pakistan, turkmenistan, or uzbekistan. it’s like saying austria is a balkan country
most yanks seem to think afghans and iranians are arab, too
Even if I’m going to take this racist shit seriously, what does this have to do with Palestine you imperialist dog?
This idiot probably thinks Afghanistan is next door to Gaza
every yank who took part in afghanistan will say they “served in the middle east” despite the country… yknow, not being in the middle east. if you’re going to invade a country on behalf of your empire i feel like you should at least know what part of the world it’s in
Middle East is where Muslims live QED
After 9/11 the Bush admin coined “Greater Middle East” which was literally just every majority Muslim country more or less contiguous to the Middle East. Anything from Mauritania to Somalia to Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan. The former-most having a latitude west of Europe and the latter-most having a latitude going into India and China, being lumped with a geographic region that just means “near the east”
Depends on who you’re talking to, some consider it as part due to cultural similarities. The ambiguity of what is ‘the middle east’ is part of the racism towards the area according to some of the middle east history classes I’ve had
yeah and it’s pretty culturally distinct, they just want to lump muslim countries together. it’s as “middle eastern” as pakistan, turkmenistan, or uzbekistan. it’s like saying austria is a balkan country
most yanks seem to think afghans and iranians are arab, too
Austria is in a certain sense a Balkan country.
balkan bavarians
Austria is Balkan though. It’s part of greater Albania
They’re all Muslim and so they’re all bad.
Who funded the atrocities by Muslims in Afghanistan?
you'll never guess
It was Americans and their fair weather ally Pakistan
The Taliban trained Hamas right in Baghdad
his logic is literally “dude, why is my antiracist music scene not racist? don’t they know this race is bad?”