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2005-11-24 Afghanistan-Pak-India

The reorientation of Pakistani jihadis into an international security threat

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-11-24 13:02|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 However, an equally if not more serious problem that has emerged over the last four years has been the progressive reorientation of Kashmiri Islamist tanzeems (organizations) toward an increasingly explicit anti-Musharraf agenda.

One would have thought that Perv might take a page from America's experience in Afghanistan and realized that any support given to radical Islamist groups will always be turned back against you at the earliest opportunity.

Moreover, many Pakistanis believe entities such as JeM and HuJI are directly contributing to a noticeable expansion of radical Islamist sentiment across the country and that, unless constrained, will result in a highly polarized state that lacks any effective middle ground of political compromise.

Despite all my hopes for the emergence of a vocal moderate Muslim majority (spit), there has been none to date. In light of that, polarization is a good thing. If al Qaeda wants the West to declare all out war on Islam, Muslims must either vehemently reject this notion or settle for being viewed as favoring such an idea.

The thundering silence from Islam as a whole invites, nay (in view of their perfidy and constant atrocities), demands they be acted against as a whole. Once some sort of divergence manifests, only then can the West bother to distinguish between Islamic factions.

There has been much hue and cry about the mistake of treating Islam as a monolithic group. I had previously resisted such an inclination. Now I do not. It is time for Islam to fragment itself along clearly delineated lines of pro and anti-terrorism. If they will not or cannot, they deserve no such benefit of the doubt.

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-24 18:07|| 2005-11-24 18:07|| Front Page Top

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