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To: Clive
Moreover, this is the army or its shadowy branch, the Inter-Service Intelligence, that sowed the dragon seeds to sprout as the legions of jihadis (holy warriors) joined in a common cause to make war against the enemies of Islam preached by Taliban's chieftain Mullah Omar and al Qaida's Osama bin Laden.
I admit to not knowing much about Pakistan beyond the usual run of news stories I've read, but this paragraph strikes me as being fatally flawed.

I am always skeptical of ANY claim to link Jihadism to some righteous reaction to oppression. Jihadism comes from the Koran, and has been around since the 7th Century. I am no expert, but I am sure that the "Islam preached by Taliban's Chieftain Mullah Omar and al Qaida's Osama bin Laden" was not born out of resistance to the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence.

The Islam of Omar and bin Laden come from an ideology of hatred, created by their pedaphile founder back in the 600's. A hatred of all things free. A hatred of all things human. A demonic hatred. A particularly vicious Hate Meme.

A hatred that is perfectly replicated, generation after generation, by the study of the Koran and the perpetuation of inhuman practices at the family, village and state level all through the Islamic world.

3 posted on 10/27/2007 7:07:29 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

I think you’ve misinterpreted that sentence. The ISI was one of the original supporters of the Taliban (hence the expression “sowed the dragon seeds”).


4 posted on 10/27/2007 7:13:07 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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