Faith-free Pakistan news, again |
| Published: October 5, 2007, 10:26 pm |
| Tags: politics, journalism, world, islam |
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I am, at the moment, reading “The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” by Lawrence Wright.” It’s an amazing book (a Pulitzer Prize winner), especially if you are interested in the foundational beliefs that fuel the fire in the Al-Qaeda faithful. So when you read this book, religion is all over the place in the story of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. There are other factors, but this is essentially a drama about love, hate, anger, shame and the power of faith. Thus, it was strange to pick up a copy of the Washington Post last week and read the Griff Witte report that ran with the headline, “Pakistan Seen Losing Fight Against Taliban And Al-Qaeda.” Now, if the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are, in some deep sense, organizations that draw power from religious faith, then one would assume that strategic gains by these groups might have something to do with religion. One side is doing something right and the other is doing something [ Full article ] |
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