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...Second Afghan War prompts a disinterment of the long chain of cause and effect that has led to Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan becoming one of the world's most unstable regions. There are genuinely illuminating sections, such as the one on the distinction between Deobandi and Barelvi Muslims and how an appreciation of those differences is vital to understanding the fractious debates about the nature of Islamic fanaticism that has sprung up in the West. It is a shame that the book is let down by a plethora spelling errors and inconsistencies, the lack...
...accused in Bhutto's killing, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, was also among the alphabet soup of militant groups that were spawned by the Afghan war.One of the most vicious of these groups called itself Sipah-e-Sahaba and used religious justifications for jihad from an austere sect of Islam called Deobandi, similar to the ideology of the Taliban. Sipah-e-Sahaba and similar groups believe that one obligation of "true Muslims" is to kill so-called apostates like Shi'ites. In the early 1990s, these veterans from the Afghan wars, with no more war to fight, launched a bloody sectarian campaign...
...movement spread across India to Afghanistan and into Central Asia where Russia was taking over the Muslim Khanates. Deobandi scholars were involved in the anti-colonial struggle for India's independence. After India and Pakistan achieved their independence in 1947, the Deobandis switched their political focus to the "secular" governments that took Britain's place. They sought to ensure Muslim rights were protected...
...political reputation of graduates from Deobandi schools that has led some governments in the region to keep the Deobandi movement at arm's length. India refuses to grant visas to students from abroad to study at Dar-ul-uloom, fearful that another leader like the Taliban's Mullah Omar might emerge in one of its neighbors. But the government has no problems opening immigration doors to foreign students who wish to study at the country's other great center of Islamic scholarship and revival - Aligarh Muslim University...
...this leading Deobandi scholar, like most Muslims from every walk of life in South Asia, said the United States needed to "look within itself" to find out the causes of the attacks. His contention: That Washington has failed to even acknowledge that its policies in the Middle East, Iraq, and Yugoslavia could be offensive to Muslims and less powerful countries. Initial sympathy and support for the U.S., he says is waning. And this comes from individuals who say that Islamic militancy is unacceptable because their religion is based on peace. "Violence has no religion," says Professor Saud Alam Qasmi, Head...
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