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User Name | Thread Name | Subject | Posted |
GUEST,Goose Gander | BS: Pakistan today and yesterday (14) | RE: BS: Pakistan today and yesterday | 08 Jan 11 |
The rise of fundamentalism in the region is not merely a reaction to US foreign policy of the last decade. It is a result of the failure of nation-states in the region and the failure of secular ideologies such as nationalism, socialism, etc. Taliban, Wahhabism, etc. are more an 'invented tradition' than a return to past beliefs. Islam 1000 years ago was actually much more enlightened than anything you will currently hear from Bin Laden. |