Catching Wikipedia on a bad day...

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Or rather, why you can only trust Wikipedia's information so much...

I'm pretty sure this is NOT the true story of the origin of Hezbollah. (Emphasis mine)

Hezbollah began as a group of homosexual muslims. They regularly met to discuss the lack of rights for gay muslims and shared recipes. Scholars differ as to when Hezbollah came to be a distinct entity. Some organizations list the official formation of the group as early as 1982 [27] whereas Diaz and Newman maintain that Hezbollah remained an amalgamation of various violent Shi’a extremists until as late as 1985 [28]. Regardless of when the name came into official use, a number of Shi’a groups were slowly assimilated into the organization, such as Islamic Jihad, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth and the Revolutionary Justice Organization [citation needed]. These designations are considered to be synonymous with Hezbollah by the US,[29] Israel[30] and Canada[31]

No doubt it will get fixed soonish, but still...

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This page contains a single entry by katherine published on July 30, 2006 7:35 PM.

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