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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Genocidal homophobic incel western puppets currently imperializing their neighbors, and were the prototype for America's anticommunist tactics post-1965.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 4 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Right. It's the West's fault. Probably converted Christians are secretly in charge there. Certainly no blame due for Arabia.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

this occurred in Aceh which is a gigantic island, but it's known as the "crazy muslim conservative island". They're locally governed and don't represent Indonesia as a whole.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Arabia hasn't been closely involved for a long time. Actually, I don't know if it ever was or the someone like the Mughals were an intermediary, off the top of my head. It's far away from the Middle East.

Religious conservatives gonna religious conservative. If you go back to ancient history sometimes they were fine with homosexuality, or even expected some amount, but that died out along the way. Because of the European empires, but only because they were more successful, so I wouldn't blame Europe either.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yes, it was the US who worked to isolate the democratically elected leftist government, while supplying arms, intelligence, and diplomatic support to the coup who overthrew the leftist government then murdered anyone insufficiently religious, rightwing, and conservative.

If the book on how this incident was a template for future US policy was too much reading, here's a wikipedia article.