User blog:HanSolo69/Religious Extremism Opposites!!! Taliban vs. The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord

You have heard correctly; I have risen from the grave! After almost a year, I am back to creating battles, and will (hopefully) start uploading battles alot more frequently. Now, without further a-do, here we go!

During the Cold War, a new wave of fighters began form: terrorists. These people were ideological extremists who preached their viewpoints via bombs, bullets, and genocide. Reasons for become terrorists varied around the world, whether its political views, civil war, or... religion. Most religions have at least one fanatical terrorist group, but as of lately, Islamic terrorism has become the focus of the Western world. However, as I stated, each religion has its extremists, including Christianity. See today, let's see which religion has the nutter terrorist group: the Taliban, Islamic fundamentalists who took over Afghanistan post-Soviet Union, versus The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, far-right domestic terrorists who terrorized 1980's Missouri. Both are deadly, both are fanatical, but only one will be crowned...

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Taliban
The Taliban, alternative spelling Taleban, which refers to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), is an Islamic terrorist movement in Afghanistan. It spread into Afghanistan and formed a government, ruling as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from September 1996 until December 2001, with Kandahar as the capital. However, it gained diplomatic recognition from only three states: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Mohammed Omar has been serving as the spiritual leader of the Taliban since 1994.

While in power, it enforced its strict interpretation of Sharia law, and leading Muslims have been highly critical of the Taliban's interpretations of Islamic law. The Taliban were condemned internationally for their brutal treatment of women. The majority of their leaders were influenced by Deobandi fundamentalism, and many also strictly follow the social and cultural norm called Pashtunwali.

From 1995-2001, the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and military are widely alleged by the international community to have provided support to the Taliban. Their connections are possibly through Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, a terrorist group founded by Sami ul Haq.

Stats

 * circa. 2002
 * 28 y/o
 * 5'9"
 * 160 lbs.

The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA)
The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (initialized CSA), was a far-right terrorist cell dedicated to Christian identify and survivalism that was active in the United States in the 1970's and 1980's. The CSA was founded in 1971 in Elijah, Missouri, as the Zarephath-Horeb Community Church. Over time, it grew into an extremist paramilitary organization, with ties to the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Brotherhood. They began to almost occupy several towns along the Missouri-Arkansas border. Their basic rhetoric was fundamentalist Christianity, anti-Semitism, anti-government libertarianism, and white supremacy.

Everything came to a head in 1981, when a member, Richard Wayne Snell, shot and killed an African-American police officer, and later a local gun-store owner. In 1983, Snell and a couple other CSA soldiers attempted to bomb a natural gas pipeland, but failed. In 1985, the FBI named the CSA the second-most dangerous domestic terrorism organization at the time. Something also to note that Timothy McVeigh, the man respondsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings, was, at one point, affilated with CSA, having trained there for a bit

On April 19, 1985, over 300 FBI agents and law enforcement officers staged a siege of the CSA compound in Elijah. They negociated with their leader, James Ellison, to surrender peacefully. The CSA prepared for a firefight, but attorney (and later Governor of Arkansas) Asa Hutchinson and several FBI agents managed to get Ellison and the CSA to lay down their arms and surrender. Ellison and the other leaders were convicted, with Snell was killed via lethal injection.

Stats

 * circa. 1983
 * 32 y/o
 * 6'0"
 * 195 lbs.

Weapon Analysis
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X-Factors

 * For Training, I gave the edge to the CSA. For most of the Taliban's reign, most of their soldiers were volunteers with basic understandings of firearms and explosives. The CSA, on the other hand, had an entire compound and a mock city to train, not to mention they had several ex-military members.
 * I gave Logistics to the Taliban. The CSA, towards the end, struggled to get supplies, especially as the FBI began to close in on them. They were also limited by smuggling laws and gun laws, causing them to jerry-rig guns or try (and in most cases, fail) to smuggle guns in from Mexico. The Taliban constantly had arms from the Russian occupation and weapons supplied by the U.S. during said occupation. The Taliban also had superb knowledge of the mountains and tunnels, which aided them in smuggling arms and supplies into Afghanistan.
 * In Extremism, I called it a Draw. Most groups preached the most bastardized, fundamental aspects of their religions, aimed to take down their respective governments, and gave members of both their religions a bad name. Especially the Taliban, considering the opinion on Islam today.
 * Experience went to the Taliban, hands down. They fought in the Soviet-Afghan War (then known as the Mujahadeen), the Afghan tribal wars of the 1990's, and are, to this day, fighting against NATO (U.S. and its allies) in the War on Terror. The CSA had tons of training, but it was almost always training. Aside from failed bombings (or, in the case of McVeigh, successful bombings), shooting police officers, and terrorizing townspeople, most CSA militia never really had any direct combat experience.

Voting & Notes

 * Votings ends on August 21st, 2017, two weeks from now
 * Full edges and declaration of winner = 1 vote
 * Single paragraphs or half-assed edges = 0.5 vote
 * Single sentence = No vote
 * The battle will feature 8 Taliban militants advancing through the mountains, only to find 8 CSA soldiers who were there to recieve training from anti-Taliban militias. Once the two groups meet, a firefight will break out.

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