<<To call them a gang is accurate , they are not a government yet.>>
Sure NOW you can call al Qaeda a gang, after I called you on your attempt to minimize the KKK. My question to you, which you did not answer, was when had you PREVIOUSLY called al Qaeda "just a gang?"
The question is rhetorical, simply because it's unfair to ask anyone to comb through past posts like that. But it's rhetorical because I know that you did NOT call al Qaeda "just a gang."
When you called the KKK "just a gang" you did so to play down their significance and I explained why. The worse the KKK, the worse Amerikkka must be for having tolerated it for so long. As willing as you are now to adcknowledge (after I called you on it) that al Qaeda too is a gang, you still won't say they are "just" a gang, because the word "just" is also minimizing their significance. So you're still protecting the Klan, or at least its reputation, by calling them a gang (now) or "just a gang" (then,) in either case implying that they are nowhere near as bad as al Qaeda, whom you never previously tried to minimize either as "just a gang" or as "a gang."