Posted on 08/20/2006 4:25:19 AM PDT by milestogo
Pakistan blames West for terrorism
Duncan Campbell reports on the resentment that Pakistan feels when portrayed in the West as the epicentre of terrorism
Duncan Campbell in Islamabad
Sunday August 20, 2006
Observer.co.uk
'These plots are essential for Bush to keep up the fear of terrorism, so that the American public is constantly fearful,' said Dr Shireen Mazari, director general of the Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad. On the issue of al-Qaeda's alleged involvement, Dr Mazari said: 'I think it's becoming a brand name that attracts disparate groups.'
The cartoonist Maxim, in the Nation, has a balder interpretation but one that finds a growing audience. His cartoon shows an Arab looking at three missiles marked UK, US and Israel and thinking: 'Real WMDs - Weapons for Muslim Destruction.' This view has many supporters. Shafiq Ahmed, 35, deputy imam at the Al Huda mosque in Islamabad, said: 'This plot seems to be a conspiracy to divert the attention of the international community from what is happening in Lebanon. Muslims are being terrorised and killed on the back of 9/11 Nobody is concerned about the Muslims' issues, even the UN are not... We believe if we fight injustice, we go to heaven and if we cannot do something against these cruel powers we may pray for God for their destruction.'
Usman Moosa, a 21-year-old student, reflects an equal resentment that Pakistan is portrayed in the West as the epicentre of terrorism. 'You don't have to blame Pakistan for what people do in another country, people who were born over there and educated over there,' he said as he loaded his car at the Jinnah market. 'Why do people always look at Pakistan?'
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Machiavelli would be proud.
Keep Pakistan on Our Side
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686756/posts
And
India’s enemies are not ours, says defence expert Ivan Eland
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685859/posts
As usual the Junk media fraudulent assigns the rantings of the pro Terrorists propagandists to reflect the WHOLE nation.
NOT! This is just another Leftist Terrorist fellow traveler at a University spewing the same absurd childish nonsense the usual political bigots at Universities spew. See fact and reason come WAY down the line with these people compared to the mistaken belief that spewing the pro terrorists propaganda helps their Leftist political agenda. It utterly nonsense.
Say "Dr" did fighting the Nazis in WW 2 "breed more Nazis"?
Of course it did not Dr of Complete Ignorance.
Mazari got her PhD in political science from Columbia University, New York.
West blames Islam for terrorism. Barbary pirates, all.
"'You have created a monster and now you don't know what to do with it,' said Senator Asfundyar Wali, the Awami National Party senator who was jailed at the age of 14 for his political beliefs and has been arrested many times since. 'The war against the Soviet Union turned refugees into jihadis.'
Of course. Were do you think this virulent stain of hate American Always dogma originated? The virus is carried by the 1960s Left overs who now run our University System. The places where doctrinal fidelity to the partisan political bigotry of the Wacko Left Professorship is the only avenue to success for the average student. "Liberal Arts" Universities are NOT about learning anymore any , they are propagandizing the the youth in the polemical religion of the Professors, you either tow their party line or get burned at the Educational stake for the heresy know as "Not Politically Correct". Are worst enemies are not in the madrassas or the mosques, they are in our very educational establishment
Mazari got her PhD in political science from Columbia University, New York.
It not their schools which are the problem.
I don't believe this writer anymore than I did on the other thread about Blair being upset with Bush...
All the libs are out writing each other just to cause problems for Bush....
Don't believe a word of this article, its crap and from a trashy lib writer to boot....
You right I was wrongly being flippent about it. The problem exists in both places
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