Senior moments . . . or amnesia?

The Washington Times ^ | 7-26-05 | Arnaud de Borchgrave

[JZelle]

Surprise. Surprise. Three of Britain's home-grown suicide-bombers, born of Pakistani parents, were in Pakistan last year and in early 2005, where they were in touch with madrasas, the so-called Koranic schools that have taught entire generations to hate Christians, Jews and Hindus. Thus, some 5 million boys have been brainwashed in nearly 12,000 madrassas since the late President Zia ul-Haq, a military dictator for 11 years (1977-88), encouraged fundamentalism as an ideological barrier to communism. The U.S., Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were close allies in the guerrilla war against the decadelong Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (1979-89). The Koran, drugs, U.S.-supplied Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, and tens of thousands of mujahideen volunteers from Arab and other Muslim countries -- in that order -- were the weapons that compelled the Soviet Union to pull out. The war produced many heroes. Osama bin Laden was one. He launched al Qaeda as a vehicle for recruiting "Afghan Arabs" and for keeping in touch with them after the war.

[JimSEA]

The new paradigm, obvious to most terrorist experts in the Western world since September 11: radical Islam is at war with Western democracies. Only a Muslim Martin Luther, or at least a Muslim Martin Luther King can turn Islam away from the clash of civilizations the extremists seek.

Good, thought provoking article.

[GOP_1900AD]

Or, we could use the same approach we used with Kamikaze maniacs in WW2 ... instead of hoping for reform and being sadly disappointed ...

[John Filson]

Yep.