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To: The_Reader_David

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32 posted on 01/13/2011 6:36:35 AM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus

I’m not surprised about Pakistanis behaving that way. I only actually expect moderation from Muslims who either have been influenced both by the cosmopolitan live-and-let-live attitude that prevailed in much of the Ottoman Empire following the formal abolition of legal dhimmitude and the jizya in the 19th century—the odd anti-Christian pogrom excepted—and by Ba’athist pan-Arab nationalism, or are Shi’ites who have not embraced the lunatic Ta’ajili sect that dominates Iran.

The professional classes in Pakistan are largely of the second sort—moderate Shi’ites—but the vast bulk of the population (and about half of the ruling class drawn from the Sunnis, the kind who make up the faction of the ISI that supports the Taliban) are bad news.


33 posted on 01/13/2011 7:03:51 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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