Have you heard the latest joke about doctors?
Again and again, some silly nut drives an explosives-laden car into a building and reminds us that the scourge of terrorism is far from over. Has the war on terrorism accomplished anything at all? The answer would be a resounding yes. To which I would add: more terrorism!
Isabel Hilton also snidely remarked:
The war against terrorism [...]
Something’s afoot in Perlis
It’s no secret that Muslim extremists have a binary view of the world. There are the good people and there are the bad people. Obviously, these Muslim extremists, or Islamists, would claim that they belong to the first group. That’s the staging ground for a grander agenda. Their special-ness extends to within the Muslim community [...]
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, & the Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Ahmed Rashid)
Behind all wars, Ahmed Rashid contends, are power brokers who remain hidden in shadows. Afghanistan and all that has happened to it is no exception. Bringing his immense and intimate knowledge of the geo-political and spiritual layout of the country to bear, Ahmad Rashid takes us into the brutal and quasi-tragic world of the Taliban. [...]
Mesquita politics
A Muslim friend once told me that the word mosque was derived from the word mosquito. “It’s a Crusader plot to defame Muslims,” he confided. Like most conspiracy theories, however, it’s plain baloney. First of all, the Crusaders are dead. Second of all, Crusaders were too stupid to have concocted any sort of etymological device [...]
Don’t forget the tail end of the world
The mainstream media has paid so much attention on extremist groups in the western hemisphere and Middle East that another part of the world has virtually dropped out of the radar screen. That part is the Asian theater of what I call the global jihadist agenda.
Now, some would disagree with the notion that extremists [...]
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