I understand. You can always point to particulars here and there. This group did this. Another group did that. And that action caused the next action.
But what I’m saying is the Taliban is a direct outgrowth of the Koran. If not named the Taliban, if not directly assisted by the Pakistani military, it would have arisen under some other name, by some other proximate cause.
Hate-filled Islamic extremists are not a new phenomena born in the 20th century.
They weren’t new in the 10th 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.
My only point was that the sentence you were responding to was not saying that resistance to the ISI was the source of Mullah Omar's and bin Laden's islam. The ISI guys were supporters, not antagonists.
The Taliban and Al Qaeda is Koran-inspired, no doubt. But what enables them to create so much havoc in countries with a great deal of a capability to secure itself, is the military intelligence and know-how, that the ISI provides.
The ISI is very good at bending the Islamaniacs and using them as an effective tool, against modern militaries and nation-states. The ISI may seem to appear like they are colluding with the Islamaniacs, but they are not. One is being used by the other, and it certainly isn’t the ISI that’s being used.