Ty Webb wrote:I didn't notice any beautiful mosques built by the Taliban.
The Taliban is another outgrowth of Wahhabi Islam. They want strict adherence to Shariah. They do not want war with the west or to force conversion of the west to Islam. They want to overthrow psuedo-Wahhabi puppet regimes of the West. In regards to Pakistan, madlee was partially wrong here:
madlee wrote:pakistan is a particularly strange state. consider it a bigger iraq, perhaps even more complicated.
In this region, there is no sunni v. shiite conflict. it's all sunnis and they have a greater allegiance to their tribal affiliations, than to islam.
There is conflict between sunni and shi'a, and between sunni sects.
daily times of pakistan, 5-14-07 wrote:Sectarian conflict looms over Pakistan, says study
WASHINGTON: Sectarian violence marked by the Shia-Sunni conflict threatens to engulf Pakistan as the current century gets underway, predicts a new study released here last week.
The study, the first of its kind, was completed by Khaled Ahmed, contributing editor at Daily Times, who conducted his research during the last nine months as a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Centre here. Entitled “Sectarian War: Pakistan’s Sunni-Shia Violence and its links to the Middle East”, Ahmed notes that tens of thousands of lives have been lost in Pakistan’s sectarian war in the last two decades of the 20th century. The mayhem continues into the 21st century. He recalls that a very tolerable level of Sunni-Shia tension was inherited by Pakistan from British Raj, and it was not until after 1980 that the two sects squared off violently. Like all internecine conflicts, the war of the sects has been characterised by extreme cruelty, he notes. It coincided with the onset of the Islamic Revolution of Imam Khomeini in Iran and the threat its “export” posed to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states across the Gulf.
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herety webb wrote:We're not talking about mainstream Muslims or even particularly conservative Muslims. It's pretty obvious by now that the madrassas that have turned out the most zealous jihadists have no problem encouraging them to be martyrs.
The madrassahs turned out Jihadists for the Taliban, to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan for the imperialists, true, but just because there is plenty of Taliban sympathy inside Pakistan, that doesn't mean that there is a death wish inside the majority of Pakistanis that involves suicidal attacks on imperialist interests in non-Muslim countries. If there is a desire to have an anti-imperialist government that adheres to Shariah within their borders, that seems okay by me, but since that land is so valuable to the plan to extract the resources from the Caspian Sea region, I'm sure that we will manufacture a terrorist case against any Pakistani leaders who do not play ball with the NWO in that regard.