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To: samtheman
Sorry, I should've been clearer. You wrote:
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.

6 posted on 10/27/2007 7:29:35 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored

You’re right. I screwed up. I see your point and stand corrected on that aspect of it. I was conflating the two different assertions (on the one hand, saying that jihadism is a product of oppression, on the other that it is the product of state-sponsored warriors) which are often bandied about regarding jihadism. Thanks for pointing that out.


7 posted on 10/27/2007 7:35:02 AM PDT by samtheman
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