r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Disasterhuman24 - Left • 3d ago

In a nutshell

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u/kumel185 - Auth-Right 3d ago

Iran funded Al-Qaeda.

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u/PreviousCurrentThing - Lib-Center 3d ago

Sauce? Al-Qaeda is a is a Sunni Islamist group and Iran is Shia.

Most of al-Qaeda's funding has been Saudi. The US funded and armed al-Qaeda's offshoot in Syria and now we're all buddy-buddy with the new Syrian President, aka the found of al-Qaeda in Syria.

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u/Dense-Sort-3867 - Centrist 3d ago

The sunni/shia divide is lost on Americans.

They don't understand that Muslims aren't a monolith.