• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Long before Israel, Americans been sending weapons to Saudi Arabia the people who took out the twin towers, and nobody seems to care.

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      19 hours ago

      since when is Bin Laden + a couple of goons the whole people of Saudi Arabia ?

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        The international mujahadeen movement was born in Saudi Arabia; funded by Saudi Arabia; created out of a quasi death cult of islam called Wahabism founded in Saudi Arabia; bin Laden was a major figure in Saudi politics and society and from one of the richest, non-Royal families in the country; almost all the members of Al-Queda were Saudi.

        If Saudi foreign policy and money created the mujahadeen, then they are Saudi.

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        18 hours ago

        Typically, when people refer to a country by name in this manner, such as “Saudi Arabia”, they are referring to the government/ruling class of that country, not the people as a whole. The Bin Laden family had demonstrable ties to the royal family of Saudi Arabia.

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            3 hours ago

            Saudi Arabia, the people who

            Yes, in reference to “Saudi Arabia”, which refers to their government

            I added the comma for clarification, but that’s what was said

            They didn’t say “the people of Saudi Arabia did 9/11”