I want to mention- and I actually sort of appreciate Javad talking about Salafis in the way that he is more honest....
in the sense that- he basically openly explains that, yes, the West and Salafi types cooperated during the Cold War against Communism. this is way more honest than promoting the fake narrative that the West created Salafiyyah. that is completely false.
but it is true that there was cooperation between Salafi types and the West against Communism during the Cold War. that's actually what happened and it is perfectly justified. during the Cold War, the communist groups would receive backing from forces like the USSR and Cuba. then you get painted as a puppet of the West when you don't want your country to be taken over by commies and you receive weapons from the West to combat the commies.
also btw I think it should be noted that the West was not entirely anti-communist. leftists in the West were and are way more pro-communist whereas it was more the Republicans and conservative elements as well as Christians who were more into anti-Communism. if you look at what happened in Nicaragua, Jimmy Carter basically handed that country over to the commies. in reality, you can find instances of the West helping both communists and anti-communists because different factions in the West had different stances. during the cold war, a lot of leftist democrat types were soft on communism, commie sympathizers, etc. anti-communism was more of a republican, conservative thing. so the west wasn't universally this militant anti-communist entity. even to the extent that democrat, leftist, liberal types were seemingly anti-communist.... a lot of it was more geopolitical rivalry with the ussr versus real, deep ideological opposition to communism as such. rather than true ideological universal war with communism as such, a lot of them were really just wanting the US to have a bigger slice of global influence than the Soviets. whereas it was conservative types, especially religious elements, who often were into this sort of deep, sort of metaphysical, universal opposition to communism as such.
Reagan helped the anti-communist contra guerrillas and if you watch the liberal mainstream media even from back them, they hated the contras and painted them as traitors and terrorists. I'm amazed that the USSR even collapsed given how much the leftists were basically shilling and covering for them. it really shows what a garbage system communism is.
also I think it's interesting to note that the democrats are way more anti-Saudi than the Republicans. people paint it like Saudi has great relations with the West but in reality the democrats specifically have this extreme hatred of Saudi whereas the Republicans for whatever reason has a relatively more sympathetic relationship with them. the West is not this monolithic thing but in reality as is obvious, there are different factions in the West. the Republicans are closer to Saudi, more sympathetic to Russia and more against Cuba and Venezuela and the democrats are more pro-Iran (as well as pro-Houthi) and more pro-Communist countries like Cuba, China, Venezuela, etc.
Javad paints it like the West promotes Salafis or whatever... but in reality, you can point to cooperation between the West and Salafi types against communism during the cold war but you can also point to the West promoting liberal types as well. you can paint things differently based on which instances you cherrypick.
edit: btw just to illustrate what I'm talking about in this post.... notice how Trump was way more pro-Bolsonaro than Biden and the liberal types
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/10/donald-trump-jair-bolsonaro/620504/ .... Trump and Republicans were more pro-Bolsonaro whereas the dems and left more pro the communist Lula