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RCA...the point isn't about Hamas (or Israel for that matter) being religious or political first. I don't know that there is a clean cut line of separation. Political beleifs are one way of ordering one's experience of the world...and they have strong interaction with religious beleifs. Is Hamas religious or political? It's a null question, becuase it imples that the political program of its adherants can be separated from their experience of Islam...and that their formulation of Islam is isolated from their political history and experience of interaction with the West. And on the flip...Sharon was (is) pretty much an athiest...but was one of the hardest voices on expansion and expulsion of Palestinians. until his recent change of heart.
Also...i find it very hard to believe that the Cold War was about evangelical Christianity. Some of the hardest cold warriors were in fact Catholic...although some of their co-religionists were also in the socialist and sympathizer fringes. Religious affiliation did not predict stance on Communism.
Charlatan points out correctly that you're misrepresenting the history of the conflict in Rwanda.
There's a word for what you're doing here...and it's isogesis. It's the interpretation of events and texts by the impostition of a prior framework of expectations.
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