03-11-2007, 09:39 PM
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodna...ame=raman&sid=1
<b>Made In Pakistan : B. Raman</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Surprisingly, one hardly finds these questions being posed and debated by Al Qaeda and other Sunni-Wahabi organisations based in the Pakistan/Afghanistan region. Not a day passes without these jihadi organisations criticising the US for something or the other. They blame the US for all the evils in the world. They list out in their propaganda the causes for the Muslim anger against the US. The US policies towards Iran and its opposition to an Iranian A-Bomb do not figure in this list. There is an intriguing silence of Al Qaeda and pro-Al Qaeda organisations on reports of a possible American or Israeli air strike on Iran's uranium enrichment capability. The only conclusion possible from an analysis of this silence so far is that the wahabised Sunnis of Pakistan and Afghanistan are as much worried over the dangers of Iran acquiring a military nuclear capability as the US and Israel are. They look upon it not as an Islamic bomb, but as a Shia bomb. Pakistan's is an Islamic bomb, but not Iran's.
Another component of International Islamism is its belief that Muslims may have to kill Muslims-- whether Shias or Sunnis-- under certain circumstances for the sake of their version of Islam. Before the advent of International Islamism, in the Islamic world outside Pakistan, collateral killing of Muslims during a jihad was accepted as an unavoidable evil, but targeted killing of Muslims-- even they be Shias-- was looked upon as an evil, as anti-Islam.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Made In Pakistan : B. Raman</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Surprisingly, one hardly finds these questions being posed and debated by Al Qaeda and other Sunni-Wahabi organisations based in the Pakistan/Afghanistan region. Not a day passes without these jihadi organisations criticising the US for something or the other. They blame the US for all the evils in the world. They list out in their propaganda the causes for the Muslim anger against the US. The US policies towards Iran and its opposition to an Iranian A-Bomb do not figure in this list. There is an intriguing silence of Al Qaeda and pro-Al Qaeda organisations on reports of a possible American or Israeli air strike on Iran's uranium enrichment capability. The only conclusion possible from an analysis of this silence so far is that the wahabised Sunnis of Pakistan and Afghanistan are as much worried over the dangers of Iran acquiring a military nuclear capability as the US and Israel are. They look upon it not as an Islamic bomb, but as a Shia bomb. Pakistan's is an Islamic bomb, but not Iran's.
Another component of International Islamism is its belief that Muslims may have to kill Muslims-- whether Shias or Sunnis-- under certain circumstances for the sake of their version of Islam. Before the advent of International Islamism, in the Islamic world outside Pakistan, collateral killing of Muslims during a jihad was accepted as an unavoidable evil, but targeted killing of Muslims-- even they be Shias-- was looked upon as an evil, as anti-Islam.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->