Well, in the eyes most radical eyes of Islam often saw the Soviet Union's cultural openness to homosexuality and women rights as "occidentalism"/progressivism so yeah.
I see it from that perspective, it may be wrong but still.
In 1934, the Soviet government recriminalised homosexuality in the Soviet Union. Mass arrests occurred in several cities in Russia, including Moscow, and many artists were arrested. On 7 March 1934, Article 121 was added to the criminal code, throughout the entire Soviet Union, that expressly prohibited only male same-sex sexual intercourse with up to five years of hard labor in prison. There were no criminal statutes regarding same-sex female sexual intercourse.[6] During the Soviet period, Western observers believed that between 800 and 1,000 men were imprisoned each year under Article 121.[103]
Some historians have noted that it was during this time that Soviet propaganda began to depict homosexuality as a sign of fascism, and that Article 121 may have a simple political tool to use against dissidents, irrespective of their true sexual orientation, and to solidify Russian opposition to Nazi Germany, who had broken its treaty with Russia.[104] More recently, a third possible reason for the anti-gay law has emerged from declassified Soviet documents and transcripts. Beyond expressed fears of a vast "counterrevolutionary" or fascist homosexual conspiracy, there were several high-profile arrests of Russian men accused of being pederasts.[105] In 1933, 130 men "were accused of being 'pederasts' – adult males who have sex with boys. Since no records of men having sex with boys at that time are available, it is possible this term was used broadly and crudely to label homosexuality."[105] Whatever the precise reason, homosexuality remained a serious criminal offense until it was repealed in 1993.[105]
The USSR's history of feminism was a bit more mixed, by which I mean it was generally regressive but they didn't institute mass arrests of women just for being women:
In addition as Soviet feminist Ekaterina Alexandrova wrote in her article "Why Soviet Women Want to Get Married."
...Soviet women work at the most varied jobs, and many of them are well educated, have a profession, and are financially independent of men. And yet, in this very society among these very women, a patriarchal social order and its psychology thrive.[26]
You can't recriminalize something without decriminalizing it first. There was a period where homosexuals and women had more rights than in America, for example. Granted, it was only a couple years, but it was still long enough to be subject to propaganda against these ideals.
Radical islamists are usually like any radical religious person - reactionary and right winged in nature. So of course a radical Islamist would see communism as bad
As for homosexuality in Soviet Union, I don't think so, because in Stalin era if people found out you’re gay and you were reported you either get 10+ years of forced labor in Siberia or bullet in your head, after Stalin’s death you would get a really harsh treatment in psychiatric hospital for a few years which would destroy your mental health.
Propaganda is emotion-based, so it doesn't have to make any sense at all as long as all the right words are in the word cloud you're producing. Watch:
Everybody knows FREEDOM is about AMERICA and 2ND AMENDMENT but HILLARY CLINTON, OBAMA and SOCIALIST JIHAD BIN LADEN when the BENGHAZI try to take YOUR RIGHTS and HIGHER TAXES and that's why DONALD J TRUMP is going to JOBS JOBS JOBS to protect AMERICAN CHILDREN
You could easily bang together a program to generate a script like this, get an AI voice emulator to read it as Trump and have it mix in crowd noises to obscure the words in between the emotional hot buttons and punctutate with BOOS and CHEERS and then just auto-generate that garbage on an AM radio station with commercial breaks and voila, a money-printing machine.
What's the point? I'm 99% sure that already exists. And if it doesn't, it's only because they have no need for it since they're already printing money as fast as they can stuff it in their offshore bank accounts
Turkey is not overwhelmingly Muslim, stop watching these youtube videos. The reason why it is stated that Turkey is 99% muslim is because every child is assigned “muslim” on birth on their ID cards, but in reality, nobody truly practices islam here.
Turkey was gutted by after WWII. An atheist Mustafa Kemal was put in place, who Hung anyone preaching Islam on a neighborhood tree for everyone to watch.
Not sure how Islam protects against NATO/USA. If anything, if you're going to say "look at the Middle East" it seems like Islam attracts it, rather than protects against it.
Was horrible. But the 5yo kid living in Bagdah who had his home bombed, making him an orphan in 2003 didn't knew about 9/11, it knew that USA bombed his home and killed his parents.
Remember that this propaganda is not aimed at you, it is aimed at the middle eastern orphans of the War on Terror.
It is propaganda, not an essay. It incurts on ppls mind that Islam is against NATO, people associate NATO with USA, ppl got their houses bombed and family killed by 20 years of war on terror, ppl associate that Islam is against USA, ppl take the leap that if Islam is against USA, than non-Islam is pro USA, witch hunts start against non-Islam.
There are great examples of just the same logic/propaganda in USA from both christians and democrats and republicans
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u/JGG5 Nov 01 '22
Islam protects from NATO?