HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Arab Spring, Tawhid, Considered Dead
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Daesh and muslim terrorism: lecture five: the british and the french were ighting the ottomans and russians. Everyone wanted a piece of the middle east, and they divided it up to become semi-independent states. But the country is divided between the groups. A very diverse society and was held together in the 20th century because of the. But once the americans came in, there was nothing to hold it together. They had found ways of exercising inluence but were blocked. A us oicer was dictating what their lives were going to be like: the sunnis were not going to win because they are a minority. So the elections and resulting parliament, nor the prospect of being left powerless appealed to any of the men. They started snipping at us soldiers, setting roadside bombs, etc. Everyone knew where to get these kind of weapons, including the police.
