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Why Taliban Attacked Islamic University?
Sunday, 25 October 2009

Sadly, it's just such a goal that probably made it a "legitimate" target for the Taliban, for whom a healthy public sphere populated by educated citizens willing and able to challenge, potentially democratize, and clean up their government would pose at least as big threat to its position in the country as the army they are now fighting in the country's northwest, read what Mark LeVine - a history professor at University of California, Irvine and currently a visiting professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden, writes here.

I partially agree with what Mark LeVine writes. The able author would have been more convincing only if he not that sarcastic. I wonder why intellectuals like him think with malice, allow me use the word.

posted by S A J Shirazi @ Sunday, October 25, 2009,

3 Comments:

At 10:15 PM PKST, bell59@sbcglobal.net said...: Shirazi,

I'm not sure which part/parts, you found sarcastic. I do think the paragraph where he first met the students and discribed the way they were dressed, and their long beards, reminding him of the Taliban was very insulting and a stupid comment to make of the students.

Unfortunately even intellegent people can say really stupid things from time to time. However I was glad to see that he did acknowledge how wonderful and talented they were as he got to know them.

Wish I could say more but I'm having computer problems.
At 6:44 PM PKST, jalalHB said...: It is wrong to label every explosive incident to Talibans - not that I am fan of Talibans but it is putting the entire perspective in a wrong direction. We better call these militants / assasins and paid merceneries who are creating a situation in Pakistan condusive for foreign intervention. I have seen photos of killed "Talibans" which clearly shows them to be non-Muslims.
Unless we recognise who these people are, all our analyses would be misleading.
At 1:33 PM PKST, Mobashir Ahmed said...: These terrorists do not belong to one school of thought. There are paid mercenaries, criminals (declared proclaimed offenders), heroine addicts, and pseudo Islamists who want to impose their own version of sharia and Islam by force. However, these are all being employed by their foreign masters having their own design to break up Pakistan.